Traveling, playing music, photography, teaching, movies, books, and so on.
Elevator to the Gallows, L'Avventura, George Washington, Barton Fink, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Graduate, Le Petit Soldat, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Magnolia, The 400 Blows, Drugstore Cowboy, Shadows, Down by Law, Scenes from a Marriage, Three Colors: Blue, The Bicycle Thief, Dr. Strangelove, Solaris (Tarkovsky's), Being There, Don't Look Back, Stroszek, Rushmore, Ikiru, The New World, Manhattan, The Last Picture Show, 8 1/2, Pull My Daisy, Paris Tx, Jesus' Son, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Rivers and Tides, Schutlze Gets the Blues, Killer of Sheep, Two Lane Blacktop, Old Joy, Color of Paradise, etc
Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office (both), Conan O'brien, History Channel, Ali G, The Daily Show, Pete and Pete (and other Nick nostalgia), Austin Stories, PBS, old game shows
Writers: Nabokov, D.H. Lawrence, Kundera, Dostoevsky, Bruno Schulz, Portis, Faulkner, Durrenmatt, Fante, Andre Gide, Dylan Thomas, Kerouac, Borges, O’brien, Camus, Delillo, Zinn, Joyce, Dreiser, Eggers, Orwell, Victor Lavalle, etc. Photographers: Winogrand, Marc Wise, Shore, Cartier-Bresson, Gursky, Lartigue, Mermelstien, Robert Adams, Koudelka and a zillion more