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Laughing, artmaking, teaching, dogs, reading, writing, music, dancing, wandering (especially around NYC)
Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, Joy Division, New Order, The Muppet Movie soundtrack, John Lee Hooker, Prince, Patsy Cline, David Bowie, Charles Mingus, A Tribe Called Quest, Talking Heads, all them classic Blue Note jazz records, The One AM Radio, Repeater, etc.
Boogie Nights, Death Race 2000, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove, The Manchurian Candidate, The Muppet Movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Rocky, Some Like It Hot. Oh yeah, and of course, Nocturna.
The Simpsons.
Anything by Salman Rushdie, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Wind in the Willows, Familiarity is the Kingdom of the Lost, 1984, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Les Enfants Terribles, Mötley Crüe: The Dirt. Also a lot of art stuff I read for grad school, like One Place After Another by my professor, Miwon Kwon.