Music:
Beatles, Jimi, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Love, Zombies, Jethro Tull, Bob Dylan, Doors, Byrds, Stones, Neil Young, The Who, Stephen Stills, Simon and Garfunkle, Janis, Pink Floyd, Animal Collective, Ravi Shankar, and the most amazing of them all... the brilliant Toulouse Engelhardt.
Books:
Wild Child, Sophie's World, The Doors Of Perception and Heaven and Hell, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, To Kill A Mockingbird, Bob Dylan Chronicles, Memoirs of a Geisha, and of course Siddhartha...
Heroes:
sitar guru i live for the redwoods