I enjoy the layers of meaning in the subtle things. And women and partying and fuzzed out rock and roll.
There are a lot of folks from the past I wouldn't mind reconnecting with. So if you're one of them, don't be a stranger.
The Alarm Clock Orchestra, Talibam, The Papercuts, Holy Haunted Head, Pavement, The Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Oneida, Monk, Mingus, Cannonball Adderly, Neil Young, The Band, The Fairport Convention, John Fayhe, The Blank Tapes, The Casual Dolphins, Sterling Says, Zodiac Death Valley, FpodBpod, Jeff Manson, Phil Ochs, The Staple Singers.
Songs for Cassavetes, Down By Law, Faces, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Don't Look Back, Eat the Document, Slacker, Sherman's March.
Don't dig TV.
The Naked and the Dead, Nausea, The Sun Also Rises, Please Kill Me (70's NY Punk Rock History), anything by Richard Brautigan.
The Arabic scholars who saved recorded knowledge and added to it considerably, too. Thanks, old time Arabs.