Philosophy, psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, art, film, politics, poetry, doodling , travel, food and drink.
Squirrels, pirates, art fiends, and these two people:
Mostly punk and jazz ( list ), but also riot grrrl, edgy electronic and new wave, british invasion, latin, bollywood, cambodian rock, afro-pop, etc.
Getting a lot of spin right now: Neung Phak (self titled), Solex (The Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock), Asha Bhosle (The Golden Voice of Bollywood), Le Tigre (This Island), Art Blakey (Roots and Herbs), Jackie McLean (Capuchin Swing), and downloads from Killed By Death Records (e.g., Anorexia) and Postpunkjunk (e.g., The Flys).
I am a shameless cinephile. Click for list .
Some favorite directors: Antonioni, Bresson, Buñuel, Kalatozov, Teshigahara, and Godard.
I try to avoid it.
Modern literature (Huysmans, Lautréamont, Gide, Robbe-Grillet, Kafka, Gogol, Nabokov, Joyce, etc.).
Some dead white male philosophers (esp. Locke, Hume, and Nietzsche).
Historical and anthropological studies of moral change (e.g., Marvin Harris, David Byron Davies, Peggy Reeves Sanday, etc.).
20th century poetry, especially in English (e.g., Lowell, Thomas, Loy, Williams, Roethke, Berryman, Stevens, Heaney, Simic) and Spanish (e.g., Huidobro, Lorca, Aleixandre, Mistral, Celaya, Parra).
Art books (e.g., Bosch, Lippi, Pontormo, Caravaggio, Goya, Messerschmidt, Kollwitz, Duchamp, Picabia, Höch, Hausmann, Schwitters, Dubuffet, Darger, Maciunas, Sherman, Kiki Smith, Murakami, Chapman brothers).
Books written by friends (much better than my own books).
Academic journals: trends in cog sci; cognition; nature neuroscience; neuroimage; psych science; journal of personality and social psych.; cognition and emotion; mind & language; jounral of cross-cultural psych.; sex roles; american anthropologist; past and present; and cabinet (art).
Mary Wollstonecraft, W.E.B. Du Bois, Alfred Jarry, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Federico GarcÃa Lorca, Thelonious Monk, Gertrude Stein, Jean-Luc Godard, Catherine McKinnon, Kathleen Hannah, and other intellectual or artistic revolutionaries.