anyone bright, funny, open minded, and interesting, of course
beatles, hendrix, red hot chili peppers, radiohead, older metallica, black crows, foo fighters, sergei prokofiev, tool, don ellis, beck, avenged sevenfold, giles giles and fripp, alice in chains, mr. bungle, janes addiction, pork chop stew, george harrison, too many to list....
sports, news, ocasional movie, a little of this, a little of that
winters tale by mark helprin, lord of the rings, anything hemingway (serious hero-worship there), stephen ambrose, and lately some good bios----i've read a teddy roosevelt (fascinating), a genghis khan (wow, i had no idea), a joseph stalin (another eye opener)and a couple of histories like the making of the atomic bomb by richard rhodes, the great flood of 1927 by john barry, and ambrose's lewis and clark story, undaunted courage
mr. rogers, teddy roosevelt, the person i try to be on my very best days (i'll get there sooner or later)..