Archaeology, Archaeogeophysics, Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Archaeometry, Old Maps, Chaos Theory, Tattoos, Lowbrow Art, Noodlin', etc...
nerds
QOTSA, Eagles of Death Metal, The Black Keys, Mississippi Fred, Son House, Fatso Jetson, Skip James, Ween, Willie Nelson, Earthlings, Devendra Banhart, JSBX, Skip James, Thelonius Monk, Cuban San, Coil, Coltrane, Bing Crosby, Jesus Lizard, Sufjan Stevens and everything that doesn't suck.
Delicatessen, Harold and Maude, Ruben & Ed, Kurasawa, Jarmusch, Kubrick, etc...
PBS
Blood Meridian is THE American novel. McCarthy, Amis, Greene, Bukowski, Crews, Chomsky, de Soto, Mishima.
After watching her go through 40 hours of labor with our son, Judah, my wife is the number one hero. Further down on the list are: Willie Nelson, Ali, Jimmy Carter, Noam Chomsky, Patrick Fitzgerald and "Little Pete" the sideshow midget I saw swallow swords and eat fire when I was 10.