Music:
BLUEGRASS_&newgrass, most vernacular instrumentals, classic country and rock with a substantial appetite for david allan coe, skynyrd, waylon and charlie, umphrey's mcgee, jethroTULL, allman's, phish, ocms, grand funk, etc, etc, etc..
Movies:
strange brew, caddyshack, rocky(s), the SHINING(kubrick's), river runs through it, o'brother, sideways, apocalypse now, most of bill murray, etc,.
Television:
BBC's trailerPARKboys.....
Books:
sand county almanac, for the health of the land, FARM, sketchbooks, michigan forest communities, adffadsffffffffffff paper
Heroes:
my sister, ronnie van zant, anyone willing to go the extra mile to improve the world we live in