Music:
Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Soul, The Roots, Mos Def, Manu Chao, Afro-Cuban Beats, Robert Johnson, The Blues, Jeff Buckley, French Kicks, The Stars, Micah P. Hinson, Steve Earle, Ramsay Midwood, Johhny Cash
Television:
Antiques Roadshow, The Daily Show, Bill Mahr, Grey's Anatomy (Guilty Pleasure), Martha Stewart Living-Pre Time on the Inside.
Books:
A Natural History of the Senses, West with the Night, Perfume, Life of Pi, Ahab's Wife, Peter Pan. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Michael Cunningham, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie and almost anything else I can get my hands on.
Heroes:
Those with the courage to love and be loved.