Nature, politics, the works of Orson Welles, Recipes (for grill's, crock pots, pressure cookers, and the stove),Vynil records, the Appalachian trail, Shelly Berman records, Jonathan Winters records, Vaughan Meader albums, Old Radio shows, Kareoke, and Live Theatre
Stetson Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Ned Beatty, Noam Chomsky, Toots Thielmans,
Elvis, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cheap Trick, BB King,Sonny Boy Williams II, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Prokofiev, Beethoven, Strauss, Debussy, Scott Joplin, Cecillia Bartoli, JS Bach, Holst, Igor Stravinsky, Toots Thielmans, Donovan, Pink Floyd, Green Day, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Django Reinhart,
Citizen Kane, Jaws, Shadow of a Doubt, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Stranger, The Usual Suspects, Once upon the Time in the West, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible I & II, All the President's Men, Apocolypse Now, Amadeus, Willy Wonka (1974), Ernest Goes to Jail, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill I&II, F for Fake, Touch of Evil, Blood Simple, Fargo, The Big Lobowski, Das Boot, Rashomon, Goldfinger, Flight of the Phoenix, To Kill a Monckingbird, Psycho, The Maltese Falcon, Nosforatu, The Hot Rock, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove,
Seinfeld, Law &Order,HistoryChanell, C-Span "Books", Cheers, Frazier, Family Ties, Twillight Zone, Saturday Night Live, Presidential and V.P. Debates, Election Nights, World Series, MLS Soccer, Project Runway, Iron Chef, Honeymooners, Andy Giffith Show, David Letterman, Dr Phil (he's a laugh roit), Jeopardy, Maury (DNA results), E-True Holliwood Story, and any fishing show.
Shakespeare, Bible, World History Vol.1 and Vol.2, Viola Spolin Improv Games, The Civil War, but mostly plays, and biographies and autobiographies, and book about a certain event or time period. The Walls of Jerico is a fantastic book.
Bertolt Brecht wrote in his play, "Caucasin Chalk Circle", this dialogue between two characters.Man A:Sad is the country that has no Heros. Man B:You're wrong. Sad is the country that NEEDS heros.