Music, History, Science Fiction, my wonderful wife! The New York Football Giants. I especially love Ancient History, very early Medieval English History and British Military History.
Roger McGuinn, Beth Brown, H.P. Lovecraft, Signe Ettlin (Anderson), Grace Slick, Judy Dyble, Richard Thompson, Tom Verlaine, Martin Carthy, Neil Young, Roky Erickson, Chris Hillman, Phil Simms, Jack McDevitt, Marty Balin, Skip Spence, Peter Lewis, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, David Crosby, Michael Clarke, Dean Wareham, Patrick Stewart, Patrick McGoohan, Bev Bivens, John Cale and Paul Kantner, Julian Cope, Homer, Heinrich Schlieman, Odysseus,Kerry Collins, Fran Tarkenton, Y.A. Tittle, Bill Parcells, Jennifer Connelly, Bill Clinton (to shake his hand), GW Bush(to kick him in the groin!), Ben Kingsley, Mahatma Gandhi,Homer, the Minoan artists who decorated the palaces with those frescoes, Agamemnon, Klytemnaistra, Achilles, Leonidas,Gates McFadden,Eva Braun(to ask her what the hell she was thinking!), Michael Clarke, Spencer Dryden, Gene Clark, Dave Clark, Alan Price, Dave Mattacks, Michael Wood, Carl Sagan, Aelle, Cerdic, Raedwald and Berthold the Angle, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Quarter After, every NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANT who ever played!
The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Fairport Convention, Absolute Grey, 13th Floor Elevators, Buffalo Springfield, Velvet Underground, John Cale, Luna, We Five, Moby Grape, Julian Cope, Television, the Seeds, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Searchers, The Yardbirds, Yo La Tengo, Bardo Pond, Bizarros, Brewer and Shipley, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Hot Tuna, Donovan, Jorma Kaukonen, Hawkwind, the Animals, the Dave Clark 5, the Albion Band, Martin Carthy, Ravi Shankar, Sheila Chandra and MANY others! Ok...the Quarter After are the BOMB and EVERYONE IN THE WORLD NEEDS TO BUY JUDY DYBLES THREE NEW CDS. Also, if you want to hear a true 60's unsung classic, dig up We Fives psychedelic-folk rock classic "There Stands the Door."
Tymeless Flyte TQ Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSG30HG53yI
Zulu, the 300 Spartans, Gandhi, A Passage to India, Twelfth Night (w/ Ben Kingsley), Midsummer Night's Dream (w/Helen Mirren), The Day the Earth Stood Still, Troy, In Search of the Trojan War.
The Prisoner, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, the Young Ones, Red Dwarf, Eureka, Star Trek:NGen, Digging For the Truth, the Addams Family, Inuyasha.
Anything by H.P. Lovecraft, Jack McDevitt, Arthur C. Clark, the Iliad, the Odyssey, Gilgamesh, the Ramayana, Beowulf, Eudora Welty, Chaucer, Joseph Campbell, Mary Renault, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Alan Steele.
My grandfather,my wife, my father, my mother, WT Sherman, US Grant, Lincoln, Gandhi (yes, I know its contradictory, but I like the previous three because of their guts and determination, not warlike traits), Odysseus, Circe, The Great Goddess, Sir Arthur Evans and Dr. William Sladek and Dr. Gregory Browne; two of the greatest mentors one could have had, Dr. Darcy Williams, Jack McDevitt and Ravi Shankar.