Music:
THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET, THELONIUS MONK, MAGNETIC FIELDS, THE FAT ACROBATS, NINA SIMONE, LAMBERT HENDRICKS AND ROSS, THE BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET, BILLY HOLIDAY, JUNIOR WELLS, HUGH MASEKELA, THE BEATLES, BOBBY MCFERRIN, ERYKAH BADU, MOS DEF, PRINCE, THE FLAMING LIPS, MICHAEL JACKSON, THE VELEVET UNDERGROUND, AL GREEN, LAURYN HILL, STEVIE WONDER, SLY, TOM WAITS, BECK, OUTKAST, RADIOHEAD, THE TRIBALISTAS, OSCAR BROWN JR., MARTINO DA VILA, SAM COOK, JIMI, DAVID BOWIE, NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL
Books:
childhoods end (arthurc.clarke), autobiography of my mother (jamaciakincaid), laughter in the dark (vladimir nabokov), jitterbug parfume(tomrobbins), sirens of Titian & playerpiano (kurtvonnegut), art & physics (leonard shlain), understanding media (marshallmcluhan, proglemania to any future understanding (immanuelkant), 100 years of solitude(gabrielgarcia marquez), where the wild things are, sea of fertility tetrology (mishima), the anais nin diaries, most any james elkins book,
Heroes:
sandman and his endless siblings