Liberty, Risk, Women, Phenomenology, Machinery, Wired Society, Raising Daughters, Raising Hell, Raising Consciousness, Scuba-Diving, Motorcycles, Horses, Psychedelic Drugs,Connection, Live Music, the Law in Cyberspace, the Eternal Feminine, Death, Velocity, Oral Culture, Direct Experience, Art that Terrifies, The Unknowable Holy, The Knowable Unholy, Politics, Biological Processes of All Sorts, Copyright in Digital Media, Dancing, More Dancing. and Dawn from Behind.Learn more at http://www.eff.org/~barlow.
Lao-Tsu, Thomas Jefferson, Gandhi, Heraclitus, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mark Twain, James Dean, Will Rogers, Werner Heisenberg, Jedediah Smith, Buffalo Bill, Randy Newman, Nietzsche, James Madison, Earl Monroe, Marilyn Monroe, James Joyce, Henry Miller, Teilhard de Chardin, William Blake, Sir Richard Burton, Dorothy Parker, Tom Paine, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, St. Theresa of Avila, John Stewart Mill, J.C.R. Licklider, T.S. Eliot, Salvador Dali, Niels Bohr, Chief Seattle, Vaclav Havel, The Buddha, Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Lenny Bruce, Calamity Jane, Leonardo da Vinci, Lauren Bacall, Rumi, Amelia Earhart, Marshall McLuhan, Louis Brandeis, Crazy Horse, Lewis Thomas, and Jesus Christ
The top 20% of almost everything. I used to write songs for the Grateful Dead, but my favorite band has always been the Rolling Stones.
Brazil, 8 and 1/2, Dr. Strangelove, Blade Runner, Black Orpheus, Lawrence of Arabia, Goodfellas, Groundhog Day, Blood Simple, Memento, The Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire, Bitter Moon, Repulsion, Airplane, and Straw Dogs.
Never watch it. Never. It gives me bad hallucinations.
Tao de Ching, The Bible, The Koran, The Recognitions, Zen and the Art of Archery, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Gravity's Rainbow, Great Expectations, Leaves of Grass, The Four Quartets, Huckelberry Finn, Sometimes a Great Notion, Ghostwritten, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and the Little Prince.
Everybody on the list of People I'd Like to Meet. In addition, these heroes whom I know or have known personally: Gilberto Gil, Neal Cassady, Cynthia Horner, Leah, Anna Winter and Amelia Barlow, Mitch Kapor, Alvin Toffler, Henry Miller, Peter Drucker, Gregory Bateson, bell hooks, Benoit Mandelbrot, Otis Redding, Louis Rossetto, Senator Thomas Daschle, Ann Simpson, John F. Kennedy, Jr, Elaine Barlow, Alan Kay, Nicholas Negroponte, J.C.R. Licklider, Miriam Jenkins Barlow Bailey, Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Carolyn Bessette, Robert Hunter, Vint Cerf, Jaron Lanier, Bobby Weir, John Cage, Nelson Mandela, Mick Jagger, Buckminster Fuller, Jerry Garcia, Robert Pirsig, Jacqueline Onassis, Juanita Simmons (my black elementary school teacher in Wyoming), Kevin Kelly, and Stewart Brand,