* Being Elaine's sex slave
* Hip-Hop shows
* Live minor league hockey
* Filipino cuisine
* Snowboarding
* Mountain biking
* Hiking
* Geographic abnormalities
* New York City
* Autumn in New England
* Missing my 1200s
* Horticulture
* Liberating trees
* Telling you what you're doing wrong with your garden, plants, trees, etc
Dead people... Marley, Lennon, Edward Abbey, Dylan Thomas, Monk, Ellington, Satchmo
Old chums, long since believed to be lost.
New friends in the bay who're down for outdoorsy adventures, a decent show or talking music.
Jazz
* Billie Holiday, Miles, Bird, Monk, Trane, Pres, Satchmo (Hot Fives & Sevens, what!), Ellington, Roach, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Bossa Nova, all kinds of Afro Cuban Latin stuff
"Trip-Hop"
* Bjork, Massive Attack, Portishead
Beats/Downtempo ish
* The entire Ninja Tune label, Kid Loco, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Nightmares On Wax
Hip-Hop
* Anything Automator touches, Murs is better than your favorite MC, Maker's beats are the best, Prolyphic, RJD2, MF Doom, Illogic, Buck 65, Sixtoo, DJ Shadow, Prefuse 73, Stones Throw, Def Jux, Rhyme Sayers, G4, Mush
Drum & Bass
* Omni Trio, 4 Hero, Polar/K, Photek, Marcus Intalex & ST Files, Klute, Matrix, Metalheadz, mid '90s Moving Shadow/Suburban Base/Reinforced, Good Looking
Other machine made music
* Boards of Canada, Plaid, Black Dog, The Orb, Aphex Twin, The Bellville Three, Warp
Reggae
* Marley, Tosh, Gregory Isaacs, The Heptones, The Mighty Diamonds, Steel Pulse
Soul/60s-70s R&B
* Stevie Wonder, Al Green, James Brown, Otis Redding, Motown in general
Bands/guitars and the like
* Joy Division, The Smiths, Belle & Sebastian, A Band of Bees, The Beta Band, Interpol, Pulp, Radiohead, Spiritualized, The Stone Roses, Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Dresden Dolls, Beth Orton
* Hitchcock
* Kubrick
* Tarantino
* Zhang Yimou
* Good war flicks
* The Simpsons
* The Sopranos
* Mr. Show
* Six Feet Under
* Band of Brothers
* Law & Order
* Edward Abbey
* Milan Kundera
* Carlos Castaneda's first four
* Modern Arboriculture
* Body Language of Trees
* Sunset Western Garden Book (aka the bible)
* Biographies