fiction, poetry, film, theatre, yoga, spirituality, visual arts, good jokes, travel
other writers, other cynics, (other?)nice weirdos, avid readers, buddhists, people who dislike puns as much as I do
Mozart, Chopin, Ravel; THE BEATLES, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Doors, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Harry Nilsson, Paul Simon; anything Ella sings, Stan Getz, Miles Davis, the Marsalises; Wilco, Aimee Mann, Badly Drawn Boy
Amadeus, Out of Africa, To Kill a Mockingbird, Russian Ark, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Amelie, Whale Rider, anything by the Coen bros., especially The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou?...Lagaan, I Heart Huccabees, Napoleon Dynamite, Harold and Maude, Ed Wood, What About Bob?, About a Boy, Sense and Sensibility, Garden State, Sideways.
House, The Office, The Daily Show, ER, What Not to Wear
The list is FAR too long....Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Connor, Salter, Sedaris....I'm always reading. My all time favorite novel is The Sound and the Fury. I think it may be the greatest novel of the 20th century. I read mostly fiction, but some non-fiction in the form of essays, histories, of philosophy.
Queen Elizabeth I of England, Flannery O'Connor, Jane Goodall, H.H. the Dalai Lama