Jazz, Soul, Funk, Bossa Nova, Sunshine Pop, Now Sound, Mod Psych, Ladyslipper Orchids, Disa Orchids, African Violets, Weird Geraniums, Vanda Orchids, Tennis, Swimming, Hiking, 2oth Century Fiction, Gardening, Floral Design, Foreign films, Free Form Radio, Book Collecting, good music magazines, natuive wildflowers, Old New England & New York, etc.
Terry Callier, Sonny Rollins, Jon Lucien, Buck Hill, Kenny Dope, Danny Krivit, Monday Michiru, Stan Tracey, Roy Haynes, Tania Maria, Marcos Valle, Joao Gilberto, Mulatu, Ian Carr, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Reel People, Lisa Ono, Harry Beckett, Yoshiko Kishino, Donald Byrd, Tortured Soul, Louie Vega, Brian Wilson, Dave Douglas, Jukka Eskola, Jazztronik, Grupo X, Eddie Palmieri, Os Ipanemas, Joe Bataan, Tony Bennett, Mike Westbrook, DJ Kawasaki, David Murray, Maria Rita, Benny Bailey, Pinky Winters, Caetano Veloso, Shawn Lee, Peven Everett, Sharon Jones, Hipnosis, Nicola Conte, Quintetto Lo Greco, Five Corners Quartet, Willie Colon, Gilles Peterson, Plumstead Radical Club, ESG, Jazzanova, James Taylor, Nanette Natal, Adrian Sherwood, Lee Perry, Abbey Lincoln, Chico Hamilton, Ruthann Friedman, Dalindeo, Lady Alma, Mark Murphy, Koop, Cecilia Stalin, and many others.
A Month In The Country;Wicker Man (orig.);Sweet Love, Bitter;Cool World (Orig.);The Connection; Our Latin Thing; English Patient;Cries & Whispers;Contact;The Village;DaVinci Code;Salsa-The Movie;Saravah;Jazz On A Summer's Day;Nothing But A Man;Maestro;Black Orpheus;April Fools;The Graduate;National Treasure;Tin Drum;Europa, Europa;The House Without A Christmas Tree;'Round Midnight; Sven Klan's Kwintett; Night On Earth; Shadowlands; Iris; Proof; Seventh Seal;Endless Summer;Once Were Warriors;Monterey Pop; How Green Was My Valley;Night Of The Hunter; Elmer Gantry; Terra Em Transe.
X-Files; Alton Brown; Project Runway; In Living Color; History Channel & Int'l History Channel; National Geographic; Sid & Marty Kroft; Laugh-In; Columbo; Jazz on PBS (Ramsey Lewis etc,); Twin Peaks; Square Pegs; WKRP; Discovery channel; any nature shows.
Michael Ondaatje; William Gass; Howard Zinn; Alexander Theroux; David Malouf; Paul West; William Vollmann; William Faulkner; JL Carr; Robert Dean Pharr; James Baldwin; Samuel Delany; Charles Schultz; Annie Proulx; Howard Frank Mosher; John Gardner; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Carlos Fuentes; Harry Crews; Angela Carter; Noam Chomsky; James Weldon Johnson; Dorothy West; Paul Beatty; Paul Celan; Elizabeth Bishop; Harvey Pekar; John Casey; Camilo Jose Cela; Aharon Appelfeld; John O Killens; John Edgar Wideman; Albert Murray; Connie Porter; Randall Kenan.