Music!, FOOD, travel, space, politics, history, good conversation, driven individuals
Malcolm X, Bob Dylan, Sappho, Bono, Howard Hughes, anyone who has experienced spaceflight, David ben-Gurion, Richard Feynman, Andres Segovia, Noam Chomsky, Cicero, Michael Hedges, Django, Mark Twain, Jon Stewart, Hunter S. Thompson, Bill Clinton, Roland Kirk, Fred Hampton, Beck, Johnny Depp, Steven Speilberg, Aristotle, Cicero, Galileo, Jimmy Chamberlin, Danny Elfman, John Williams, Jeff Buckley, Hunter S. Thompson, Peter Gabriel, Dave Grohl, Stephen Hawkings, Carl Hiassen, Newton, Cleo, Ayn Rand, both Wells, Sagan, Sun Tzu, William L. McGonagle, James Bath, An Honest Woman, You
Everything, even the rainforest pygmies.
Short list off the top of my head: Oldboy, Science of Sleep, Tokyo Story, Malena, The Fifth Element, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Signs, anything by Mel Brooks, Freeway, Stella Shorts, The Shawshank Redemption, Lost In Translation, Schindler's List, Awakenings, Spun, Star Wars, almost anything by Jim Jarmusch or Michelangelo Antonioni (RIP), Bladerunner, Harold & Maude, Apocolypse Now, E.T., Jaws, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Brazil, Fargo, Scarface, Kentucky Fried Movie, Saving Private Ryan, Raising Arizona
Rots your brain. Except for: Anthony Bourdain.
Spy/Counterspy, The Gift of Asher Lev, The Velocity of Money, The Man, Intelligence Matters, Shadow Divers, The Power of One, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Snowcrash, The Color of Water, anything by David Sedaris/Carl Hiassen/Noam Chomsky, Brave New World, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Dictionary, Less Than Zero, The Last Ship, All The King's Men, Animal Farm, The Death Committee, Siddhartha, Tao of Physics, American Theocracy, Imperial Hubris, working my way through Remembrance of Things Past among other works
Malcolm X, Bob Dylan, Benjamin Franklin Murphy, Jr.