Music, films, cycle racing, writing, reading, helping the underdog, being able to annoy people who take themselves too seriously, provoking others into thought...
The perfect human.
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Woody Shaw, Charles Earland, Doug Carn and the 'Black Jazz' catalogue, Charles Tolliver and Strata East, William Parker, Steve Coleman, '70s ECM and much more. Non-jazz, including Morphine, Curtis Mayfield, Morton Feldman, AMM and Biosphere.
Weekend, Festen, Pierrot le Fou, The Seventh Seal, Double Indemnity, The Idiots, The Virgin Spring, The Night of the Hunter, Belle De Jour, The Maltese Falcon, The Green Butchers, White Heat, Shaft (original), A Day At The Races, Westworld, Goldfinger, Adam's Apples, The Phantom Of Liberty, Edgar Reitz's 'Heimat', Fear Eats The Soul...
Kojak, Bilko (The Phil Silvers Show), Curb Your Enthusiasm, M*A*S*H, Six Feet Under, Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, Top Cat and any hit series from the mid '70s featuring the questionable acting of John Saxon as a 'special guest star'.
Robert B Parker, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, Sjowall & Wahloo, Arnaldur Indridason, Georges Simenon, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Chester Himes and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Anybody who can stare life in the face without flinching and make an original contribution in a world where lunacy comes as standard...