music and playing it, food and cooking it and eating it, water and swimming in it and drinking it and playing with it, systems, outer space, inner space, domestic architecture, art and making it, sex and having it
rockers, thinkers, lovers and other types.
Can, Sloan, Pavement, TRex, the Flaming Lips, Neil Young, the Beatles, Stereolab, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Background, the Broken West, The Shins, Bowie, Eno, Parson Redheads, the Blank Tapes, Tony Goddess, Adeline, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Cardinal, the Carter Family, REM, and tropicalia and the bossanova in general, gamelan music from various locations, low-fi folk musics
The Kingdom, Donnie Darko, Lord of the Rings (i can't help it!), School of Rock, the Dark Crystal, Hi Fidelity
the new Battlestar Gallactica on DVD
cookbooks; fiction about life and relationships (if you have any suggestions), non-fiction about food history, regional cooking, conceptual art and cultural/material history.
Kim Gordon, Julia Childs, Lou Barlow, Jen Wu