anything... (except for country... though I do love Johnny Cash) so yeah, anything, hip-hop, metal, classical, pathetic emotional stuff, whatever...James Brown, Al Green, Eric B & Rakim, Billie Holiday, Billy Idol, Jack Johnson, Bad Brains, Iggy Pop/Stooges, Blondie, Lou Reed, Mos Def, Antony and the Johnsons, Bowie, ELVIS, Kyuss, Pharcyde, James Brown, Black Sabbath, Fishbone, Iron Maiden, Gang Starr, Ibrahim Ferrer, Aretha, Sinatra, Dean Martin, The Roots, Bill Withers, Parliament/Funkadelic, Tribe, Erykah Badu, Finley Quaye, Portisehead, Beethoven, japanese language cds, Miles Davis,and Charlie Parker, and pretty much any group with an & (Kool & the Gang, Sly & the Family Stone etc.).... go figure, my music taste is as moody as I am...hell you should see my ipod it has a serious personality disorder
don't get me started... we don't have all day.... but...Buffalo 66 Requiem for a Dream has really stuck with me...gotta love anything with Gary Oldman...ie: The Professional, Romeo is Bleeding, Immortal Beloved...anything with Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs)or Clive Owen (Derailed)...I don't know...Jacob's Ladder...Bladerunner...21 grams...Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels... I really could go on ..
whatever i can get my hands on... most recently and/or currently The History of Hell, The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (I dig words)(and compact? have you seen this thing?), Minor White and Kenro Izu (photography)...Still Life with Woodpecker is pretty much standard reading for any red head ... Vonnegut... Capote...and all the other stuff to prove that I'm well read and highly intellectual..
my mom- proving that a human can withstand so much and have so much love for others, and my dad- for trying