reading, writing, strumming, cleaning, driving, playing, listening, teaching, chitting, chatting, learning, talking, eating, drinking, acting, reacting, deconstructing, constructing, quality brew, jokes without punchlines, fatherhood, playing music with others, invention, harmonies, linux n00b3ry, sociology, economics, history
inventors and tinkerers
Django Reinhardt, Icy Demons, Skatalites, Warsaw Village Band, Phillip Glass, Ennio Morricone, Thelonius Monk, Greg Cushing, USAISAMONSTER, ATTEMPT, faun fables, Secret Chiefs 3, Tortoise, shpongle, King Crimson, the hair policemen, Magma, Henry Cow, Gentle Giant, yes, critters buggin'
Jackie Chan, Charlie Chaplin, Historical films, stories of overcoming opression.
Curb your Enthusiasm and a lot of detective shows
Siddhartha, The Phantom Tollbooth, the poetry of e. e. cummings and William Carlos Williams, Roald Dahl, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Enormous Room, Memed my Hawk, The Moral Animal, Non-Zero, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Ishmael
people not afraid to say they were wrong