Typewriters, felines, string theory, drug war, education, literature, jazz, traffic, beer, avian flu, raptors, superfoods, bbq, modernism, beauty, happiness, depression, alzheimers, tigers, baseball, Tigers baseball, brown notes, harmonic resonances, behind-the-beat, facial hair, bionic implants.
Satan, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Miles, Bird, Coltrane, Nabokov (in no particular order)
Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, 60's and 70's Funk, Jackie Mittoo, Roland Alphonso, Tommy McCook, Talking Heads, Desmond Dekker, Ernest Ranglin, The Melodians, The Paragons, The Skatalites, The Techniques, Wardell Gray, David S. Ware