Essential for me:
friends, family, music, concerts, good food, books, movies, traveling, animals...
Music:
Older stuff:
The Clash,The Adicts, Black Flag, The Damned, Bauhaus, Joy Division/Warsaw, X-Ray Spex,Adam and the Ants, David Bowie, The Stooges, Lou Reed, Blondie,The Smiths/Morrissey, Black Flag, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Spizzenergy, Cocksparrer, Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, TSOL, Sonic Youth, Johnny Cash, The Andrew Sisters, The Kinks, The Small Faces, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones...."newish" stuff:
Tokyo Sex Destruction, The Bronx, The Observers, Red Dons, Revisions, Elliot Smith, Jay Retard, The Coral, The Dead 60s, TSRFA, King Khan & his sensational Shrines + BBQ Show, It..s Not Not, At The Drive In, Garage Kid, The Paddingtons, The Distillers, d.n.i., Rocket from the Crypt, Hot Snakes, Black Halos, Digitl Leather, The Staggers, Surfaholics, Social Distortion, Nine Inch Nails, The Organ, Art Brut, The Kooks, Radiohead, Artic Monkeys, Turbonegro, Hardcore Superstar, Cräsh Diet, Kings of Leon, The Dresden Dolls, Babyshambles, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, We Are Scientists, Alkaline Trio, The Cardigans, Bloc Party, Beatsteaks, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Muse, Incubus, Murder City Devils, Nada Surf, Interpol, The Thermals, Wolfmother, White Stripes, The Subways, Tiger Army, The Coral, Blur, Feist, Die Romantik, Turin Brakes, Patrick Watson...There..s at least 689 bands i forgot to put on this list... These are just a "few" bands i listened to within the last couple of weeks...
Movies:
Clockwerk Orange, Natural Born Killers, actually most of Tarantions movies, a few David Lynch movies, Butterfly Effect, The Doomed Generation, Velvet Goldmine, movies that make me think, laugh and cry... but i confess that horror movies scare the shit out of me...
Books:
depends on the mood... but as in the movie sector i appreciate books that make me laugh and cry and think about the world..
Latest authors that enriched my life:
J.R. Moehringer, John Irving, Haruki Murakami, Henry Miller, Oscar Wilde, Henning Mankell, Astrid Lindgren :o)