My wife, New Orleans, Barcelona, New York, urbanism in general, entrepreneurship, innovation, cycling, food/cooking; more specifically BBQ, regional Mexican, Spanish and French cuisine, street foods of the orient, and molecular gastronomy or whatever you want to call it, design, typography, architecture, progressive politics, cooperative economics, economies of agglomeration
Dusty Springfield, Nancy Sinatra, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, The Carpenters, Anne Murray, The 5th Dimension
Marnie, Contempt, Shampoo, Klute, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
LOST
The Wire
The Sopranos
30 Rock
Friday Night Lights
The War
Heroes
Big Love
Top Chef
Planet Earth
Anything about design and business (capitalism)
Karl Marx, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Johnson, Bernard de Marigny, Jane Jacobs, Jude Matthews, Alan Matheson Turing, Thomas Jefferson, Nicola Tesla, Walter Benjamin, Deleuze & Guattari