music, playin' geetar, pianer, mandolin, violin, recorder, and some--ahem--mean mouth-harp... readin' writin' but never 'rithmetic... ellipses are always good, and sometimes hyperboles, though not so much the types who use them gratuitously... photography, art... road trips and field trips... sometimes i try my hand at the odd painting or doodle, though not so much these days
Love, The Kinks, Donovan, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Os Mutantes, Can, Bert Jansch, Fairport Convention, Pentangle, John Renbourn, The Incredible String Band, Zimmerman, Mimi & Richard Fariña, Vashti Bunyan, Bowie, The Rolling Stones & The Beatles (doi!), Emitt Rhodes, Harry Nilsson, Them, The Music Machine, The Stooges, Slade, Alice Cooper, MC5, Bo Diddley, Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, Lil' Richard, James Brown, Kevin Ayers, Syd Barrett, Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra, Astrud Gilberto, Serge Gainsbourg, et al...
Recent/modern/local favorites include: Astra, Earthless, Winter Flowers, Nick Castro, Espers, Marissa Nadler, Bramble & Briar, The Mantles, Bart Davenport, Dungen, Light, Tapestry
The Cruise, Harold and Maude, Shock 'Em Dead, Zardoz, Five Easy Pieces, Spinal Tap, Monkey Shines are among my favorites...
As for genres, I am an unabashed fan of SF, fantasy, B horror films, porn with plot, and "Road House" (which I, shortly after watching, decided should constitute its own genre. Such consummate skill with his hands and tongue Swayze has).
Directors:
Woody Allen: Play It Again, Sam; Annie Hall; What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Nicholas Roeg: Don't Look Now; Walkabout; Performance
Philip K. Dick, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Stanislaw Lem, Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Albee, Frank Herbert, Guy Debord, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, Sir Dude Shakespeare
YHWH, St. Francis of Assisi, Pee Wee Herman, and...