Meditation, reading, the Arts (audio/visual), laughter, good and true friends, writing, design, programming, game theory, quantum mechanics, esoteric texts (mysticism, mystery traditions, symbology, allegory and metaphor), poetry (Hafiz! Rumi! Bukowski! Rimbaud!), PEACE!!!, a reduction in the amount of global kid-death, quitting smoking, removing prejudices and predilictions from my soul through practice.
John Fante, Louis Ferdinand Celine, J. D. Salinger, Eileen Myles, Charles Bukowski, Gnut Hamsun, Albert Camus, James Joyce, and Mark David Chapman. (I think John Lennon was a dick, you ever seen that documentary about him? What an ass!)All my heroes are dead it seems.
Classical, classical, classical, and extreme grindcore. I also enjoy listening to Tom Waits and certain 80's pop songs. Walking in L.A. is the apex of the modern Western Tradition as far as I'm concerned. Any old Jazz singers, I love Jazz singers. Nina Simone, my God, no one sings like that anymore. You figure it out.
Sexy Beast, Insomnia (orig. Dutch version), Dogville, Brother, Kingdom of Heaven (I can't believe they pulled it off!), Barfly, Meetings w/ Remarkable Men.
Turn it OFF!
Too many to list here!
They're all dead except for my friends!