walking instead of driving, travelling ,hotel rooms, swimming at night in outdoor heated pools, sunsets on the gulf of mexico, warm southern nights, snow falling in the country, being in love with everyone and everything ,the south of france, dogs , taking the pictures, painting the pictures, trying to learn as many different languages as I can at once, reading ten books at a time, clipper ships, old victorian homes, playing music, drinking tea, hot baths in large footed tubs, the sound of birds in the morning, the sound of cicadas and crickets at night, riding bicycles at night in the summer, the smell of libraries, the full moon and the forest, the blurry line where the sea meets with the horizon and so on.
pioneers
Adam, Adeline, Add N to (X), Air, The Animals, Antarcticans, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Artie Shaw, Astrud Gilberto, Autolux,Bauhaus, The Beatles, Beck, Beethoven,The Black Pine, Blonde Redhead, Carter Family, Cat Power, Chopin, Chemical Brothers, Chokebore, Clinic, Death in Vegas, Debussy, Elliot Smith, John Frusciante, Fugazi, Grandaddy, Jason, The Kinks, Ladytron, Midlake, Mitchell, Prokofiev, Radiohead, Schubert, Signaldrift, Tchaikovsky, T.Rex, Troy Von Balthazar, Underworld, The Verve, etc, etc.
by David Lynch and Werner Herzog
by Tamara Faith Berger, Emily Dickinson, Lawrence Durrell, Lao Tzu, Henry Miller, Linda Goodman, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Virginia Wolf, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alan Watts, Thomas Moore, DH Lawrence, Sheri Reynolds, Mark Z. Danielewski,John Steinbeck, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Willa Cather,Somerset Maugham, and books on Languages, Linguistics, Poetry, Theology, Folktales etc.etc.