Laughing as hard as possible, as often as possible. Good food, decent wine. Anything wet. Bright colors. Animal behavior. Lunatics, from a distance. Memory. Theatrics.
Ferocious city beasts, independents, intellectuals, foreign nationals, risk-takers, ass-shakers, naturalists... definitely ass-shakers. I love dancing like a crazy crazy lunatic with other crazy crazy lunatics. Photographers, documentarians, essayists, longshoremen, union members, libertarians, socialists, articulate republicans, happy shiny cocktail-dress wearing city girls, mossy bearded tree-huggers, competitive free divers.
Pina, Ravi Shenkar, Radiohead, most break beats, Eminem, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Marley, Tom Waits, Sugar, Nirvana, Rachmaninoff, Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart, Satie, Blondie, Joan Jett, Rickie Lee Jones, Queen, Flaming Lips, Nickel Creek, Billy Bragg with and without Wilco, Manu Chao
Brokeback Mountain, anything with kung fu or vampires or both, Almodovar, Jarmusch, Wenders, Cronenberg, Coen Brothers, Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish, Lord of the Rings
LOST. Top Chef. Any of the Law and Order franchise apart from CI. I hate that one. Nature shows.
My father. Survivors.