Turkish, Swahili, Thomas Mann, political aesthetics, getting lost in academic exploration, Beethovening, and people watching in the library.
A Viking (not the Minnesota NFL kind), a Swedish folk band, Bill Clinton, Gerhard Schroeder, and Tony Blair (the third-path liberals) and an old woman in a little hut in some German forest who wants to read me Grimms' fairytales.
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Rufus Wainwright (is a god!), Old Crow Medicine Show, James Blunt, Dar Williams, Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, Jamie Cullum, Annie Lennox, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Carole King, Chicago, Coldplay, Dan Dyer, David Gray, Diana Krall, Dido, Elton John, Fiona Apple, Gavin DeGraw, Goo Goo Dolls, Josh Groban, Marvin Gaye, Minnesota Orchestra, Nellie McKay, Paolo Conte, Paris Combo, Seal, STING!, East Village Opera Company, Matchbox 20, any classical or world music imaginable
Withnail and I, Kitchen Stories, The Day after Tomorrow, Deep Impact, The Harry Potter movies, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Brothers Grimm and Van Helsing
Since I no longer have a TV, YouTube.com is now my life
The whole Milton S. Eisenhower library
Any humanitarian worker in the world, Tony Blair, Mother Teresa, Dr. John Davis of Howard University, and Kofi Annan.