my grandfather- Louis Kowalski Jr., Ernest Hemingway, Buddha, Ayn Rand, Shakespeare, Jimmy Buffet, Jack Johnson, B.K.S. Iyengar, Thomas Keller, my soul mate...
Any great house or lounge music, Jack Johnson, The Beatles, Bob Marley, DJ Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise, pretty much anything from Club Bauerle, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Ben Harper, Galactic, Widespread Panic (yes I'm a spreadhead), Grateful Dead, Gorillaz, Pete Tong's weekly radio broadcast from Radio 1, the essential mix, Paul Van Dyk, Miguel Migs, great blues and jazz (in the right mood), Theivery Corporation (rocks my preverbially world!), Willy Nelson, Don Williams and a good beer when I'm down, The Flaming Lips, Tears for Fears, and anything Global Underground puts out... just to name a few.
Right now its Faulkner. Robert Pirsig and Ayn Rand really deserve my praise. I love anything by Hemingway and Gabriel Garcia Marquez really blows my skirts up. Pat Conroy can make me live in his novels and Shakespeare was the cleverest man to ever write about social interaction. Joseph Campbell taught me how to think and Bill Moyers taught me what to think about.
My dad, Jack Johnson, Lance Armstrong, any dishwasher I've ever worked with