Music:
Coleman Hawkins "Body and Soul," Willie the Lion Smith "Finger Buster," Fats Waller "Handful of Keys," Final scene of Eugene Onegin with Hvorostovsky and Fleming, Alicia Keys "Unbreakable," Luis Bonfa "Perdido d'amor," Fela "Jeun Ko Ku" and J.J.D.," Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers "Art's Revelation," Cedar Walton "Naima," Sena Jurinac or Dorothea Roschmann singing "Zefferetti Lusinghieri" from "Idomeneo," Pussycat Dolls "Buttons"
Movies:
Recent and good: The Motorcycle Diaries, Little Miss Sunshine, The 3rd Man, I Heart Huckabees, The Killers
Television:
Lost
Books:
Reading or about to read: My Wicked Wicked Ways, Claudius the God, The Three Musketeers (Pevear trans), Lady Chatterley's Lover
Heroes:
Heroes?... How about qualities I admire: those who are multilingual, creative, interested and engaged, proactive. Qualities I despise: those who are jaded, bored, arrogant, preachy