Film, Music, Photography, Writing, Reading and Love Making are always at the top of my list. Everything else is a tie.
Rudolph Finamore I, Myrtle Iwalani Sanborn Finamore, Timothy Bridgers, Marcus Abeyta, Ralph Kalani Sanborn (Uncle Sonny), and everyone else who I love that's in Heaven again.
Jim Croce, Sol Hoopi, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Marty Robbins, Miles Davis, Sam Ku West, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Fela Kuti, Jimmie Rodgers, Odetta, MF Doom, Prince, Jamiroquai, Elis Regina, Connie Francis, Tito Puente, Joan Baez, Cypress Hill, Wu-Tang Clan, Black Star, The Coup, Led Zeppelin, Nino Rota, Shigeru Umebayashi, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Tower of Power, Ghetto Brass and the Furious Funk, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Sun Ra and his Arkestra, Electric Eel Shock, LiBiKoSu, Parker, Trisomy 21, MC5, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin, Hank Williams (Sr., Jr., and III), Square, Stan Getz, Nat King Cole, Lord Jamar, Lord Finesse, Buchanan, Pink Floyd, Wonderlove, Lovejar, Jeff Beck, Miyavi, Bo Diddley, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Mike Barnet, Mike Vitale, Radiohead, Ghostface Killah, King Crimson, The Mars Volta, John Coltrane, EPMD, The Roots, Bob Marley, Bootsy Collins, The Sex Pistols, Sublime, Fishbone, Steely Dan, Al Green, Remy Shand, Jaguar Wright, Maynard Ferguson, Domenico Modugno, Thelonious Monk, Johnny Pineapple and his Orchestra, Santos Colon, Chet Baker, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Steve Vai, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Antonio Bribesca, Anal Cunt, 2Pac, Metallica, Sepultura, Spinal Tap, The Ramones, The Specials, The English Beat, Velvet Elvis, Credence Clearwater Revival, Nathaniel Mayer and the Fabulous Twilights, George Clinton, Marvin Gaye, MADD Militia, KMD, Keith Stewart, Charlie Pride, UGK, Dweezil Zappa, The CunninLynguists, The Ides of March, Astrud Gilberto, Victor Wooten, Frank Zappa, and more.
Chimes at Midnight, Greed, La Strada, 8 1/2, 2046, In the Mood for Love, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Throne of Blood, Songs from the Second Floor, La Dolce Vita, Days of Being Wild, Farewell My Concubine, Raise the Red Lantern, Ikiru, Rio Bravo, El Dorado, La Ricotta, Mamma Roma, Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom, The Decalogue, Our Hospitality, East of Eden, Raging Bull, Kika, On the Waterfront, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Sergeant York, Aquirre, The Wrath of God, Easy Street, Ugetsu, Good Morning, Rear Window, Vertigo, Accatone, The Virgin Spring, Stray Dog, Black Orpheus, Red Beard, Open City, I Vitelloni, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, They Call Me Trinity, Brazil, The Triumph of Will, My Blueberry Nights, Happy Together, The Blacksmith, The Searchers, Hondo, Broken Blossoms, Blow Up, Raging Bull, Fellini's Casanova, Au Hasard Balthazar, To Sleep with Anger, Steamboat Bill Jr., Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Persona, Nights of Cabiria, Do the Right Thing, Juliet of the Spirits, Pi, My Name is Nobody, El Topo, Eraserhead, Magnolia, Funny Games, Twenty Four Eyes, The Gold Rush, Goodfellas, Killer of Sheep, Army of Shadows, The Bicycle Thief, Two Women, The New World, Badlands, Shoot the Piano Player, The Piano Teacher, Visitor Q, Oldboy, M, Intolerance, The Fountain, Wild at Heart, Sherlock Jr., Forbidden Zone, Chinese Odyssey 2002, Man Bites Dog, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Hondo, High Noon, Cocksucker Blues, Coonskin, Mandingo, Night of the Living Dead, The Dead Girl, I Walked with a Zombie, The Birth of a Nation, The Story of Qiuju, To Live, Hard Boiled, In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger, The City Lights, The Great Escape, Once Upon a Time in the West, Within Our Gates, Ashes of Time, Modern Times, Three Times, Eros: The Hand, The Hire: The Follow, and more.
The Rifleman, Zorro (cliffhanger series), The Critic, The Tick (animated series), Sports Night, Dark Skies, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai 7 (animated miniseries), Thundercats, Silverhawk, and more.
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri), Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain), Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami), Hamlet (William Shakespeare), Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vladimir Nabokov), Divine Right's Trip (Gurney Norman), The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois), Passing (Nella Larsen), Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin), In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories (Delmore Schwartz), Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories (Raymond Carver), Roman Poems (Pier Paolo Pasolini), The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (Federico Garcia Lorca, and Donald M. Allen), Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller), Battle Royale [manga] (Koushun Takami and Masayuki Taguchi), The Americans (Robert Frank), The Decisive Moment (Henri Cartier-Bresson), The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater and Other Figurative Photographs (Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and James Rhem), and more.
My Friends, my Family, Jeff Goldblum, Bruce Campbell, Wings Hauser, Terrence Hill, Chuck Norris, Tera Patrick, Banana Yoshimoto, El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, Kamehameha the Great, Kamau Kambon, Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga, Fred Rogers, Amos 'N' Andy, Laurel and Hardy, Romy White and Michele Weinberger, Mae West, and Doc Savage.