everything
interlopers, astronauts, cosmopolitans, free thinkers, the critical mass, people that don't use the internet, anyone, but not really anyone in particular.
elvis perkins, nicole atkins, the brock scott quartet, hunter curra, modest mouse, wilco, ryan adams, radiohead.. and then a lot of flavors of the minute. lately I can't stop listening to dylan. go figure.
vision quest
cnn
Justine- Durrell, Cormac McCarthy, Lolita- Nabokov, Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner, anything by Carver, anything by Hemingway, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man- Joyce, Goodnight Moon, Dr. Suess, Kant, Bukowski, Dogwalker-Arthur Bradford, Vonnegut, Borges, William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Steppenwolf- Hesse, Salinger, neitzsche
cormac mccarthy, jan van eyck, rubens, michelangelo, james jean, wade shuman, vincent desidero, ted schmidt, jenny saville, chris ware, paul pope, inka essenhigh, neo rausch, my dad, josh selig, dogs-the species as a whole, jon stewart, anderson cooper, dave eggers, anyone, really, who's given their life to critical thinking and being an be an exceptional human being.