Good food, expensive coffee, wine and long passionate kisses that go on forever, the feel of silk and the smell of leather. 19th Century photographs
Richard Francis Burton and Pablo Picasso but I would have to be dead to do that.
In no particular order: Eric Burdon, the Animals, War, Wire, John Cale, Jimi Hendrix, Cabaret Voltaire, Roxy Music, Japan, David Sylvain, Patti Smith, the Clash, Jim Carroll, Nick Cave, Bo Diddley, John Fahey, Johnny Burnette Trio, David Bowie, Klaus Nomi, Link Wray, Robert Gordon, Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Tones on Tails, Shabba Ranks, Lou Reed, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, the Ramones, Yes, the Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, Kronos Quartet, J.J. Cale, Ultravox, OMD, Mott the Hoople, Fear, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Laurie Anderson, the Blasters, Phil Alvin, Dave Alvin, B.A.D., Blondie, Kate Bush, Suicide, Wall of Voodoo, Joy Divison, Joe Ely, Townes Van Zant, Joan Armatrading, Bill Nelson, Black Sabbath, Boomtown Rats, Lords of the New Church, Gary U.S. Bonds, Ry Cooder, Robert Johnson, The The, Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Bela Bartok, Kurt Weill, Robert Fripp, Kraftwerk, Tuxedomoon, Rodger Miller, Johnny Cash, the Doors, Django Reinhardt, Franz Schubert, Arnold Schoenberg, Talking Heads, AC/DC, Anton Webern, Gang of Four, Charlie Parker, Cat Stevens, Igor Stravinski, Enigma, Janis Joplin, Scott Joplin, John Lennon, Warren Zevon, Van Morrison, Miles Davis, Carl Perkins, Chet Baker, George Thorogood, Hank Williams, Randy Newman, Pink Floyd, Patsy Cline, Otis Redding, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, the Cure, the Stranglers, Sun Records, Queens of the Stone Age, Ali Farka Toure, Tom Waits, Dead Kennedys, Dead Boys, the Beatles, Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, Dave Edmunds, Duane Eddy, T Rex, Isaac Hayes, Mother Love Bone, Mott the Hoople, Psychedelic Furs, John Coltrane, Sly Stone, Television, Peter Tosh, Robert Schumann, the Troogs, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Carlos Montoya, the Kinks, King Crimson, Nirvana, Roy Orbison, Radiohead, Sisters of Mercy, Type O Negative, Joe Jackson, Claude Debussy, Metallica, Judas Priest, Ricky Nelson, Monster Magnet, Tool, New Order, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Creed, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Chet Adkins, Dream Syndicate, Lenny Kravitz, Neil Young, Generation X, Billy Lee Riley, Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, Roger Waters, the Strokes, New Model Army, Sex Pistols, Violent Femmes, the Rolling Stones, Jane's Addiction, Nickleback, Chris Whitley, Pink Floyd, Smashing Pumpkins, the Yardbirds, Cream, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Peter Gabriel, System of a Down, Hum, Frederic fucking Chopin. Whew! Give me a moment and I will think of some more.
Rashomon, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Paths of Glory, Carlito's Way, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Alexander Nevsky, Grand Illusion, Mountains of the Moon, The Searchers, Sid and Nancy, Basquiat, The Seven Samurai, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Unforgiven, Fearless, Raising Arizona, Fight Club, Jacop's Ladder, Being There, Annie Hall, Tombstone, Cool Hand Luke, Menace II Society, The Wild Bunch, Dawn of the Dead, Repo Man, The English Patient, Trainspotting, Taxi Driver, The Fisher King, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Butterfly Effect, Day of the Locust, American Beauty, The Fountain, Memento, Being John Malkovich
The Sopranos, Rome, Ali G Show, 24, Oz, The Simpsons
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, Loon Lake, The Book of Daniel and Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, The Name Of the Rose and Baudolino by Umberto Eco, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan, Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, Thor Heyerdahl