My beloved, my kids, my family, nature,fine arts, music, photography, earth sciences, earth conservation, paeleolithic history, ancient history, archaeology, population control, ecology, animal rights, culinary experimenting, helping my lady in her garden, listening to live music, playing live music, recording music, having dinner parties for family and friends I love, traveling, being close to nature away from cities, spending as much time as possible with my family and friends, swimming underwater, riding motorcycles out in the country.
Characters. People that are not full of ca-ca. People that don't take themselves too seriously. Individuals that can appreciate knowing a man in his fifties that owns and frequently uses his remote control fart machine. People I can learn stuff from that aren't necessarily out to teach things. Painters that will show me how to land a paint brush right where it's suppose to go. Soulful folks with vision and inspiration. People that still believe humans have potential beyond war and stupidity. Someone that will trade me a working electric car for some of my better watercolors.
All styles, except most modern country. Steely Dan, The Beatles, The Zombies, The Kinks, Miles Davis, Hebie Handcock, Cozy Cole, Oscar Peterson, Fats Waller, The Allman Brothers, Derrick Trucks, Alison Crouse, Diana Kraull, Louie Armstrong, Sarah Vaughn, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Joss Stone, Al Green, Robert Cray, local song writers like: Jere Voegeli, Maria Spence, Susie Salley, Kenny Hays, John Kilzer, JoJo Jefferies, Roger Wild, Otis Cole, Gary Phillips, and great Memphis musicians like Jimmy Arnold, Steve Newman, Mike Adams, Smoochie Smith, Tom Lenardo, Jim Mahannah; (don't get mad if I don't list your name). Memphis has great players, performers and writers!
Too many to mention, but here's an attempt: All of Frank Capra's films, Cool Hand Luke, Bonnie & Clyde, Three Days of the Condor, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Star Wars movies, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The 13th Warrior, all of Laural & Hardy's shorts and features, The Marx Brothers films, the Indiana Jones films, Grand Hotel, The Thin Man series, ...too many to list.
Currently: My Name is Earl, The Office, The Unit, Discovery nature specials, The History Channel.
War and medieval history books, the Jean Auel series, archaeology, paeleontology, some science fiction, and catalogs. Lots of mail order catalogs and magazines.
My dad, my mom, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, The Beatles, Buddy Rich, Mark Gable, Debbie Gabel, Vermeer, Jan Van Eyck, Leonardo Davinci, Louis Armstrong, George Carlin, Robin Williams, Muddy Waters, Neil Armstrong, Carl Sagan.