In no particular order:
Reading. Movies. Music. Friends. Dreams of magnificent feats. Clean Sheets. Fruits and Vegetables.
Sierra Nevada.
Wine and pasta night at Blue Angel Cafe.
Good coffee is heaven in the morning. And blueberry pancakes. And laying in bed in the pre-dawn morning, not awake but not asleep, reveling and enjoying waking dreams.
"Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery / dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops, / storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon / blinking traffic light..."
Running. Climbing. Swimming. Hiking. Cycling. Pain and glory. Etc.
Wireless Internet and my ibook. Endless hours of fun.
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace things, but burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes 'AWWW!'"
Lance Cashion, Hybrid, Infusion, Phil K, Luke Fair, Blake Potter, Opencloud, Danny Howells, John Digweed, M.A.N.D.Y, Paulo, Damian Lazarus, James Talk, Desyn Masiello, Nic Fianciulli, John Graham, James Zabiela, Mazi, Maya Amack, Danny Graham, James Lavelle, Booka Shade, James Holden, Sander Kleinenberg, Steve Lawler, Luke Chable, Lee Burridge, Royksopp, Telefon Tel Aviv, Boards of Canada, among others.
Dave Matthews, Wilco, Old 97s, Bob Schnieder, KT Tunstall, Gomez, Jeff Klien, Jack Johnson, G Love and his Special Sauce, Los Amigos Invisibles, Fredrico Abuele, Wes King, Pinback, Trey Anastasio, and String Cheese. Coldplay, Keane, Interpol, John Butler Trio, Ryan Adams, My Morning Jacket, Ben Folds.
Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Charlie Byrd, Duke Ellington.
Modest Mouse, The Doves, Theivery Corporation, The Brazilian Girls, Radiohead, Marah, The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, The Shins, The Killers, Massive Attack, Mylo, Aqualung, The Frames, LCD Soundsystem, Pheonix, Ambulance Ltd, Kasabian, Frou Frou, Particle, The Postal Service, The Black Keys, Gnarls Barkley and so many more I can't even keep track.
Y Tu Mama, Tambien. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and other Rick Linklaiter films. The Usual Suspects. Half Nelson. Spike Lee (Bamboozled was underrated). Almost Famous and other Cameron Crowe films. Moulin Rouge. Marie Antoinette.
Bottle Rocket. Garden State. "Good luck exploring the infinate abyss!" Napolean Dynamite. Snakes on a $!#%! Plane! Clerks and other Kevin Smith. The Big Lebowski.
Casablanca, Rear Window, North by Northwest, The Maltese Falcon, Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Fawlty Towers, South Park, Saved by the Bell and Fraggle Rock.
On The Road and anything else by Jack Kerouac. The Woman Warrior. The Awakening. Anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Henry James, Bret Easton Ellis, Edith Wharton, and Sandra Cisneros. The Power of One. Atlas Shrugged.Allen Ginsberg. "No rest / without love, / no sleep / without dreams of love-- / be mad or chill / obsessed with angels / or machines..."
Lance Cashion, you're my hero.
My mother, because she made me eat my crust.
LOLcats.
"To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his lie: Reason--Purpose--Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge --- Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to acheive --- Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride."