literacy, music, heavily forested areas, cairns, tundra, asatru, zen, the sea, real beer, norse sagas, hiking.
Neurosis, At the Gates, Emperor, Isis, Tarantula Hawk, Pelican, Led Zeppelin, Leo Kottke, Aesop Rock, Opeth, Wu-Tang Clan, Tribes of Neurot, Masayuki Koga, Do Make Say Think, Sixteen Horsepower, Takahashi Chikuzan, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Ulver, William Elliott Whitmore, Flogging Molly, Johnny Cash, Dungen, The Roots, Steve Von Till, Sigur Ros, Thyrfing, Windir, Naglfar, Mastodon, Tom Waits.
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, Waking Life, Braveheart, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Dead Man, Fistful of Dollars.
The West Wing, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse, The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
Moby Dick, Arctic Dreams, Crow and Weasel, Farthest North, Laxdaelasaga, The Poetic Edda, Mind Breaths, Dune.