Fiction, poetry, theatre, music (performance and composition), education, art, photography, cinema, philosophy, history, sociology, psychology, economics, physics
Music:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Niccolo Paganini, Franz Lizst, Frederic Chopin, Giacomo Puccini, Maurice Ravel, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Erik Satie, George and Ira Gershwin, Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, W. C. Handy, Bix Beiderbecke, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots, Cab Calloway, Josephine Baker, The Andrews Sisters, the Carter Family, Kitty Wells, Sons of the Pioneers, Floyd Tillman, Hank Williams, Sr., Benny Goodman, The Merry Macks, Woody Herman, Miklos Rosza, Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Harry James, Gene Crupa, Carmen Cavallero, Billie Holiday, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Mel Torme, Vaughn Monroe, Django Reinhardt, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Theolonius Monk, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, Judy Garland, Spade Cooley, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Dean Martin, Eartha Kitt, Nino Rota, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley and the Comets, Del Shannon, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jefferson Airplane, Linda Ronstadt, Janis Joplin, The Who, György Ligeti, Itszak Perlman, John Williams, Joy Division, Warren Zevon, Philip Glass, John Barry, Nirvana, Cibo Matto, Bikini Kill, Squirrel Nut Zippers, KMFDM, Tool, Radiohead, Rasputina, Tom Waits, Sigur Ros, Iron and Wine, Barenaked Ladies, Tori Amos, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Movies:
A Few of the "Faves:" Die Büchse der Pandora (1929), City Lights (1931), Three on a Match (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), Stagecoach (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Cat People (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Spellbound (1945), The Third Man (1949), Sweet Smell of Succeess (1957), In a Lonely Place (1950), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), Dr. Strangelove (1964), La Dolce Vita (1960), Blow-Up (1966), Cabaret (1972), All That Jazz (1979), Koyannisqatsi (1982), Blue Velvet (1984), Dead Ringers (1988), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Crash (1996), American Beauty (1999)
Television:
...is the demoliton of the intellect, incarnate.
Books:
Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Dante Aligheri, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Marquis de Sade, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Søren Kierkegaard, Matthew Arnold, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, J. Sheridan LeFanu, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, René Decartes, Herman Melville, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Frank Norris, Knut Hamsun, Jean Genet, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol; Robert Louis Stevenson, Gaston Leroux, Emile Zola, Henry and/or William James, Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. Somerset Maugham, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, Pablo Neruda, Richard Wright, Dashiell Hammett, Wallace Stevens, John Steinbeck, James M. Cain, Cornell Woolrich, Raymond Chandler, Ayn Rand, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Charles Bukowski, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Henry Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Jim Thompson, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Colin Wilson, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Ralph Ellison, Sylvia Plath, Diane Arbus, John Gilmore, J. G. Ballard, Frederick Knott, Peter Shaffer, Anthony Shaffer, Christopher Durang, David Ives, Richard P. Feynman, Don DeLillo, Harry G. Frankfurt
Heroes:
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carole Lombard, Frida y Diego, Diane Arbus, Bob Fosse
