Music: jazz, classical, improvisation, existentialism, literature, modern art, 20th century poetry, 20th century drama, foreign film, languages, social justice, psychology, awareness, travel, nature.
Classical: particularly Beethoven, Bach, Medievel and Renaissance (Machaut and Josquin among others) also some Haydn, Mozart, Schumann, Stravinsky and Bartok. getting more into 20th century and contemporary music now adays. Jazz: Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Parker, Lester Young, Bud Powell, Anders Jormin, Marilyn Crispell and many others.
mostly foreign films. Had a great passion for the French New Wave during my late teens. Now, who knows...
Sartre, De Beauvoir, Camus, Allende, Kafka, Nelson Algren, Rumi, Rilke, T.S. Eliot; "The Art of Loving" (Fromm) "Einstein's Dreams" (Lightman);
Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Bartolome De Las Casas, Nelson Mandela, Edward Said, Daniel Barenboim, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman and the many thousands of others who have stood up without violence against oppression and persecution.