Agriculture, Biotechnology, Philosophy, Olympic Weightlifting, Powerlifting, Mixed Martial Arts, the Humanities, Psychedelics, Exploring the possibilities that the human brain can offer, the Stock Market, Entrepreneurship, Anything to do with Capitalism and the Free Market, Waste Disposal and so on.
People who i can be comfortable with, and stimulate me at the same time. Those who live a passionate life and make things work for themselves. Also, to those quirky, eccentric people who have something to offer but have simply not found the proper voice to articulate with. To the amateurs and the Don Quixotes of the world, i seek your company.
Frank Zappa, Mothers of Invention, Jeff Beck, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nirvana, Tool, Bach, Bartok, John Cage, Jojo Mayer and his band Nerve, Dj Shadow, Aesoprock, Buck 65, Wutang Clan, Sage Francis, Jaco Pastorius, Steve Vai, Parliament Funkadelic, Elvis Presley, Jean Luc Ponty, John McLaughlin, Shakti, Antoine Dufour, Nick Drake, Nico, Johhny "Guitar" Watson, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Classical Indian Music, Chopin, Gustav Mahler, Olivier Messiaen, Schoenberg, Hermann Szobel, Joy Division and a whole shitload more...I could go on and on with this but i've become pretty much a sponge these past couple of years with regards to the type of music i listen to.
Ichi the Killer, Audition, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Eraserhead, Elephant Man, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Pans Labyrinth, The Seventh Seal, Man with a Movie Camera, Closer, The Adventures of Mark Twain and so on...
I don't have a television in my room. :(
Small is Beautiful, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Stroke of Insight, The Republic, all the works of Aristotle, Summa Theologica, the various works of Isaac Asimov, but i especially liked his Empire and Foundation series, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lila, Blindness, How to Kill a Mocking Bird, 1984, The Illuminatus Trilogy by one of my most favorite authors, Robert Anton Wilson, The Idiot, 100 years of Solitude, The Portrait of Dorian Grey and so on..
I have a problem with the concept of heroes and heroism, so i'll just list some of the people i find interesting. Robert Pirsig, Robert Anton Wilson, Terrence Mckenna, Bill Mollison, Norman Borlaug, Jill Bolte Taylor, Takashi Miike, Frank Zappa, Willam James Sidis, Ron Paul, Bill Hicks, Oscar Wilde, Hermann Szobel, Nietzsche, Terrence Mckenna, Napoleon Bonaparte etc...