Music, books, photography, painting, drawing, design, DJing, rugby, working out, running, fitness, adventure, humor, laughter, insight, will power. Taking of advantage that all that life has to offer, and never slowing down.
Those who are fun, eccentric, and unpretentious.
Disco, boogie, garage, soul, funk, house, Tee Scott, Ron Hardy, Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Frankie Knuckles, Francois Kervorkian, Tony Humphries, Gino Soccio, Leroy Burgess, Patrice Rushen, Ashford and Simpson, Brass Construction, Roy Ayers, Chaka Khan and Rufus, Crown Heights Affair, Curtis Mayfield, Mass Production, Kenton Nix, Kay-Gees, Stephanie Mills, West End, Salsoul, Prelude, Patrick Adams, Greg Charmichael, Danny Krivit, Theo Parrish, Kenny Dope, Walter Gibbons, Peter Brown, Bobbi Humphrey, Selection, Ago, Gamble and Huff, Womack and Womack, Melba Moore, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Cerrone, Hall and Oates, WBMX, Hot Mix 5, Farley Jackmaster Funk, Steve Silk, Trax Records, Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt, Don Cherry, Bark Psychosis, The Stark Reality, minimal synth, Antena, Aksak Maboul, Johann Timman, Slowdive, Young Marble Giants, Kraftwerk, Cluster, Harmonia.
Forbidden Zone, Network, Blood Simple, Deliverance
Anything involving comedy, nature, science, medicine, or some sort of esoterica.
David Wojnarowicz 'Close to the Knives' ; Jean Genet 'Our Lady of the Flowers'; Thomas Pynchon 'Gravity's Rainbow'; W Somerset Maugham 'Of Human Bondage' ; I also like the likes of Dennis Cooper, poetry like Mayakovsky, Frank Stanford, yadda yadda.
As far as DJs/musicians are concerned: Tee Scott, Francois Kervorkian, Ron Hardy, Francis Grasso, Steve D'Acquisto, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, Nicky Siano, Tony Humphries, Nick Martinelli, Greg Carmichael, Walter Gibbons, Steve Cunningham, Brian Eno. As far as people in my life: my mother, my best friend Isabella, and anyone who has suffered greatly and lives to tell about it.