Correct grammar, being politically incorrect, unorthodox chord changes, whole tone scales, women, bizarre human behavior, expensive restaurants, fine wine, cigars, love, music (history of all periods of most genres, Baroque, Jazz, progressive rock and French Impressionism are my favorites), composing, Improvisation, modern thinking in general.
Arvo Part, Wendy Lesser, and Medeski Martin and Wood.
J.S Bach, Arvo Part, Gyorgy Ligeti, Herbie Hancock, Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Bad Plus, Brad Mehldau, Chick Corea, Beck, Kronos Quartet, Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, Frederico Mompou, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett, The Headhunters, Sufjan Stevens, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Igor Stravinsky, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Radiohead, Imogen Heap, Stone Temple Pilots, John Lee Hooker, Paul Simon, Glenn Gould, Moondog, Medeski Martin and Wood, John Scofield, Stevie Wonder, Chris Potter Underground.
Naked Lunch, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Reservoir Dogs, Animal Crackers, Love and Death, Full Metal Jacket, Apocolypse Now, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Tetsuo Iron Man, Cinema Paradiso, La Dolce Vita, The Dreamers.
Family guy, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Law & Order, The West Wing, 24, Scrubs
Books: Chopin in Paris, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, On the Geaneology of Morality, The Birth of Tragedy, The Silmarillion, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Sun Also Rises, Annapurna.Comics: Ultimate Annihilation, Extinction, Supreme Powers, Neil Gaiman's: Sandman, Ultimate X-MenPeriodicals: The Three Penny Review, The Economist, The New Yorker, LA Weekly.
Wendy Lesser and Viktor Frankl