Acting, Architecture, Art, Camping, Chekhov, Cooking, Dancing, Design, Photography, Films (Good and Bad, sometimes the worse they are the better), Hiking, Painting, Running, Russian Culture, Singing, Swimming, Travel, World Music, World Cultures in general.
Anyone with goals and the determination and drive to reach them. Fellow travelers, dreamers, movers, and shakers.
Westbound Train (it's my brother's band so I am a little partial, BUT if you don't know who they are, you should... look them up on MySpace), Billie Holiday, Bjork, Brand New, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Jewel, Joni Mitchell, Rolling Stones, Rufus Wainwright, Sarah McLachlin, Sting, Taking Back Sunday, Telepopmusik, , Cirque Du Soleil, In-Grid... there is so much more then this. I grew up with a hippy for a mother, a blues playing father, reggea and ska playing brother, and... well... my taste in music spans genres and grows everyday... so if you play me something and I don't like it... you probably were playing a scratched up CD or one that should be.
The Dreamers, Far From Heaven, Red Violin, The Hours, Elizabeth, Requiem for a Dream, The Rose, Momento, Gattaca, 28 Days Later, Children of Men, Ivan's Childhood
CNN, CSI (the original), Law and Order (all of them), Without A Trace, Daily Show, Stephen Colbert.
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, anything that Chekhov has ever written.
My Dad, My Mom, My Brother, and Anton Chekhov.