Music (jamming, listening, composing, instruments, singing, all of it), Science, the color red, art, circles, dreams, philosophy, books, meditation, water (waterfalls, thunderstorms, anything involving a lake or a river), darkness, thoughts and imagination, yoga, Zen and Zen culture, massages, jokes and laughter, ghost stories, learning, skinny dipping, tatoos, the idea of infinity, dragons, martial arts but especially Judo, jacuzzis, ancient Greece, fireworks, prisms, jellyrock, hypercubes, cliffdiving, trampolines, magnets, Sign Language, Love, any kind of advanced technology, cars and machinery, blacklights, racquetball, partying!, sushi, holograms, titanium, camping/hiking, tools and gadgets, basketball, fire, plasma spheres, the world of Native Americans, poker and card games, supercolliders, Peace, carnivals, kissing, Greek mythology, archery, tie-dyes, lasers, the Russian language, brewing beer, dogs and dog training, recycling, the thrill of skydiving in the freezing cold air with the wide open Earth below you, glass objects, stand-up comedy, the beach and everything about it, magic shows, parades, microscopes, people-watching, the Internet, laying in a hammock, getting dirty in the mud, black and white photography, live theatre, ant colonies, blue jeans, fossils, ylem, kites, weightlifting but particularly the Bowflex machine, snorkeling with tropical fish, things made from mahogany or oak, board games because they're a great social interaction, roller blading, chocolate and all things sweet, Tai Chi, billiards, red wine, skiing, the Renaissance, bean bag chairs, outer space (stars, supernovas, nebulae...), the circus, organic foods, The Far Side, sitting on porches, movies, random chaos, survival training, museums, numbers and symbols, darts, politics, old fashioned things, poetry, fractals, drum circles, mountain biking, surprises....
Dreamers, musicians, artists, philosophers, old souls, kind hearts, misfits, geeks, troublemakers, the people on my Heroes list, the people on my Books list, comedians, dancers, magicians, people who think outside the box, writers, poets, actors, the second person to figure out where the word Ipsclar can originally be found, scientists, inventors, tree huggers, dog lovers, Bodhisattvas, people who can laugh, a ghost, people who can cry, racquetball partners, entrepreneurs, my clone, Texas Hold 'Em players, a real psychic, children of the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a sentient being from another planet....AND A NOTE ON THE SECTION BELOW (TOP FRIENDS): THEY ARE NOW ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF HOW I MET EVERYBODY. :)
Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are currently leading the way, by showing how the business model of the recording industry can use the Internet for the common good.
2001: A Space Odyssey, The Abyss, Airplane, Alien, Altered States, Amadeus, American Beauty, An American Werewolf in London, Apocalypse Now, Back to the Future, Batman, The Beastmaster, Beetle Juice, Blade Runner, Brainstorm, A Christmas Story, Clash of the Titans, A Clockwork Orange, Contact, Cool Hand Luke, The Dark Crystal, Dead Poet's Society, Die Hard, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove, Dreamscape, Dune, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Easy Rider, Evil Dead II, Fantastic Voyage, Fargo, Fearless (Jeff Bridges version), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fire in the Sky, The Fly (remake), The Fog (original), Forbidden Planet, Forrest Gump, Ghost Busters, Gladiator, The Godfather, Gremlins, Idiocracy, It's a Wonderful Life, Jurassic Park, The Karate Kid, Koyaanisqatsi, Krull, Logan's Run, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Matrix, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moulin Rouge, The Nightmare Before Christmas, A Nightmare on Elm Street, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Perfume, The Pink Panther, Poltergeist, Primer, The Princess Bride, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Quest for Fire, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rain Man, Real Genius, The Road Warrior, Rocky, Saving Private Ryan, Scanners, Scarface, Schindler's List, Se7en, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Shakespeare in Love, The Shining, The Silence of the Lambs, Sin City, Stand by Me, Star Wars (original), Starman, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, They Live, The Thing (remake), The Time Machine (original), Titanic, Tombstone, Top Secret, Total Recall, Tron, Twelve Angry Men (original), Unforgiven, United 93, The Untouchables, The Usual Suspects, The Wall (Pink Floyd), War Games, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Funny: The Simpsons, South Park, Faulty Towers, Seinfeld, Beavis and Butthead, Friends. Serious: Law and Order, Twin Peaks, House.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lao Tzu, Douglas Hofstadter, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Plato, Emily Bronte, William Shakespeare, Anton Checkov, Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Shelley, Douglas Adams, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lame Deer, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dr. Seuss, Alan Watts, Isaac Asimov, Emily Dickinson, Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Philip K. Dick, Louisa May Alcott, Jules Verne, William S. Burroughs, Shel Silverstein, Jane Austen, Henry Thoreau, John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, Joyce Kilmer, Robert Luis Stevenson, Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Hawking, Ayn Rand, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Walt Whitman....
Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei, Louis Pasteur, Nikola Tesla, Mother Teresa, Abraham Lincoln, Kurt Godel, Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, Salvador Dali, Ludwig van Beethoven, The Buddha, Georgia O'Keeffe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ansel Adams, Tim Berners-Lee, Johann Sebastian Bach, Harriet Tubman, Vincent van Gogh, Jacques Cousteau, Roger Waters, Susan B. Anthony, Leonardo da Vinci, Linus Torvalds, Nelson Mandela, M. C. Escher, Dorothea Lange, , John Lennon, Annie Leibovitz, Les Paul, Gloria Steinem, Steve Wozniak, and last but not least...my father, R.I.P.