No one in particular. I'm not much for surprises.
The never-changers:
Prince!!, Sly, Sarah Vaughan, Bowie, Eric Dolphy, Jeff Buckley, Bill Withers, Ornette, Nina Simone, Hendrix, Stevie, Roy Ayers, Bobby Womack, Magnetic Fields, Charlie Parker, Wayne Shorter, Gil Scott-Heron, Meshell, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Bjork, Monk, Elliott Smith, Dylan
The current listens:
Jens Lekman, Joanna Newsom, Frida Hyvonen, Fabian Kallerdahl, Bell Orchestre, Final Fantasy, Of Montreal, Ted Leo, Gillian Welch, Amadou & Mariam, Antony & the Johnsons, Beirut, Peter Bjorn and John, El Perro Del Mar, Kings of Convenience,
The Forsyte Saga, 'I, Claudius', Black Orpheus, Masculine/Feminine, Night on Earth, Do the Right Thing, The Man With No Past, Serpico
Anything on Masterpiece Theater, Six Feet Under, The Cosby Show, The Wire
Authors?Murakami, Eugenides, Nabokov, Studs Terkel, Roth, Amis, Munro, Zora, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Rita Dove, Czeslaw Milosz, anything Oulipienne.
Titles? A Natural History of the Senses, The Power Broker, the Life and Death of Great American Cities, A Moveable Feast, The Master and Margarita, Remains of the Day