most music (xept country) favorites- goa, AMBIENT + TRANCE, classical(baroque), world music + melancholic dark stuff.
Books
love to read, lots of fantasy (no Pratchett!), sci-fi, some romance + erotic. e.g.: Steven Erikson, kahlil gibran, hesse, n. stephenson, tom robbins, d. gabaldon, kundera, oscar wilde, pauline réage, laura reese, bret easton ellis, poe, H.P Lovecraft, books on shamanism + mythology...
Heroes
"Shamanism is not a religion, it's a set of techniques, and the principal technique is the use of psychedelic plants. What psychedelics do is they dissolve boundaries, and in the presence of dissolved boundaries, one cannot continue to close one's eyes to the ruination of the earth, the poisoning of the seas, and the consequences of two thousand years of unchallenged dominator culture, based on monotheism, hatred of nature, suppression of the female, and so forth and so on. So, what shamans have to do is act as exemplars, by making this cosmic journey to the domain of the Gaian ideas, and then bringing them back in the form of art to the struggle to save the world." - Terence McKenna