Music
-playing teaching and listening.
Food
-cooking and eating alike
Coffee
-meditative elixir/social phenomenon
I'd like to meet:
I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-Ogden Nash
Music:
Classical
Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Mahler, Tchaikowsky, Bach,
Beethoven (obviously), Rimsky-Korsakov, Holst, Orff, Saint-Saens, Sibelius, Smetana, Bernstein, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Respighi, Puccini, Strauss
Jazz
Kenny Garrett, Wynton Marsalis, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Hiromi Uehara, The Bad Plus, Brian Blade, Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, MILES DAVIS, CHJO, Bob Florence, Terrance Blanchard, Diana Krall, Joshua Redman
Rock/Alternative
Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Coldplay, Soul Coughing, Beck
World
Brazilian-Gilberto Gil, Olodum, Seu Jorge, Zeca Pagodinho
Latin-Tito Puente, Cubanismo, Poncho Sanchez, Arturo Sandoval, Eddie Palmieri, Buena Vista Social Club, Cachao, Arturo Sandoval
African-Fela Kuti, Oumou Sangare
Movies:
I ♥ Huckabees; High Fidelity; Memento; The Machinist
Television:
Family Guy, South Park, Chappelle's Show, The Simpsons (The Classic ones, not the newer ones), THE CONE ZONE!!, Rome
Books:
Snow Crash; The Diamond Age; Quicksilver; Dune; all the Hitchhiker's Guide books.
Heroes:
Kenny Garrett, Wynton Marsalis, Roger Federer
