Music:
LOng list also...I have been into the electronic genre more the last few years but I still have quite a diverse list. Filter, Zeppliin, Tori Amos, Hooverphonic, Tricky, Billie Holiday, Sugar Hill Gang, JS Bach, Purcell, Christopher Parkening, Andre' Segovia, Richie Hawtin, Sinead O'Connor, Prince, Maxwell, Angelique Kidjo, Henri Dikonge, Yellowman, XTC, The Church, Legendary Pink Dots, Indigo Girls, Devo, Tonic, The Cure, I can't do cheap basement Rap or trite bubblegum country..
Television:
Nova, PBS, History Channel, TLC, Discovery, Science channel, National Geographic channel. Although I am not a tv junkie...I do watch these a bit
Books:
The list would be Oh SOOOOO long but here are a few..."Guns Germs and Steel" Jared Diaqmond, "The Lost Tomb"Dr. Kent Weeks, "Shamans Through Time" Jeremy Narby & Francis Huxley, Psychoactive Sacramentals" Dr. Thomas Roberts, "Silent Spring" Rachel Carlson, "Faster Than Light, Superluminal Loopholes in Physics" Nick Herbert Ph.D., "Darwin Among the Machines" George Dyson, Anything by David Sedaris, "The Clouded Leopard" Wade Davis, "The Tao of Physics" Fritjof Capra, "Shambala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior" Chogyam Trungpa, "True Hallucinations" Dennis McKenna Ph.D., "Technopoly, The Surrender of Culture to Technology" Niel postman.......there you go...its a start
Heroes:
Gahndi, Buddah, Jesus, Black Elk, MLK Jr. My Mother