Studying history. If you study the stool of a subject you can tell what they've eaten. Drinking beer. Playing music. Walking.
Kurt Vonnegut, the members of Isis and Tarentel.
non commercial metal, post-rock, experimental instrumental music, late miles davis and his spawn, and various classical strains. Examples might be, Tarentel, Explosions In The Sky, Isis, Mono, Mogwai, Neurosis, Mastodon, Today is the Day, Sonna, Howard Hello, Morimur (J.S. Bach), Mozart's Requiem.
The Godfather trilogy, The Matrix trilogy, The Thin Red Line, Dancer in the Dark, Black Cat White Cat, Donnie Darko, What the Bleep Do We Know, Waking Life, When Harry Met Sally
Arrested Development
Timequake and all other Vonnegut works. Charles Bukowski. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenence. Herman Hesse. Winnie the Pooh. The little Prince.
kurt vonnegut. Nice dogs.