Sustainable lifestyles, fresh air, the great out-of-doors, excess, minimalism, art, handicrafts, homebrewing, honky tonk blues, homesickness, handkerchiefs, alliteration, delusions of grandeur, travel, the open-source community, music, reading, writing, cinema, participant observation, doing laundry, etc.
Canadians and farmers. Extra points if you are one in the same.
Will Oldham, Tom Waits, Neko Case, Desmond Dekker, John Prine, The Weakerthans, Television, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Mountain Goats, Buck 65, The Goddamn Rattlesnake, The Replacements, Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, et cetera.
The Weather Channel
Foxfire, The Preacher, War is a Racket, Semina Culture, On the Road, Fall on Your Knees, The Sandman, Political Ideals, Gaiman, Diamond, Kerouac, Ginsberg, DiPrima, B. Russell, Kingsolver, Hemingway, Krakauer, Eiseley, Zinn
RIP, Brave New Waves.