improvisation and play, obscure beats, some beat poets (without pretension to beatness, or, unknowingly beat), maps, trees, mysteries, history, old-time baseball, other languages, round sounds, rain sounds, lonesome whistles and whipporwills...
...it'll happen when it happens.
lester young (early prime years 1936-1945, this the cream), bert jansch, john renbourn, django reinhardt, sonny rollins, serge chaloff, erik satie, verdi, puccini, isaac albeniz, debussy, lunasa, planxty, paco de lucia, hamza el din, sam cooke, otis, fred neil, innocence mission, jolie holland, joao gilberto, donovan (the ones the radio doesn't play) beatles, love, byrds, skip james, mississippi john, lightnin', dusty springfield, jolie holland, be good tanyas,...anything with un-prefabricated soul
children of paradise, topper, trouble in paradise, the shop around the corner, nights of cabiria, divorce italian style, amelie, decasia, lyrical nitrate, house of flying daggers and movies where folks flip backward over walls or walk through mirrors.....
prime suspect, english mystery, monty python, jeeves and wooster (i guess i should have an english tv)......
The Glory of Their Times, The Story of Lucy Gault, You Must Remember This, The Black Flower, Cold Mountain, Angela's Ashes, Think On These Things, The Deptford Trilogy, Jewel In the Crown, All The Pretty Horses, At Swim-Two-Birds, Crock of Gold, A Cast of Killers, The Alienist...
Gandhi, Joan of Arc, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Lord Buckley, Laurel and Hardy, Laurel Clohessy