General
Art, Music, Cinema, Travel, Stirring the pot, Surfing, Theatre, Literature, Snowboarding, Camping, Scuba diving, daydreaming, Love
Music
Bowie, Radiohead, Bjork, Nine Inch Nails, The The, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ani DiFranco, She Wants Revenge, Emeliana Torrini, Sigur Ros, Goldfrapp, REM, The Smiths, X, early Adam and the Ants, Garbage, Gomez, Pixies, Coco Rosie, Libby Kirkpatrick, Patrick Park, Gary Jules, Andras Jones, Anya Marina, Interpol, Bauhaus, The Cramps, The Killers, Flaming Lips, Gorillaz, Two Loons for Tea, Fiona Apple, Johnny Cash, , Spiritualized, Matisyahu, Massive Attack, Saint Etienne, Tricky, Air, Zero 7, Elbow, The Golden Palominos, Franz Ferdinand, Dead Can Dance, Bob Wills, The Doors, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, The Who, The Kinks, The Eagles, the Spazmatics, Superdiamond, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Artie Shaw, Billie Holliday, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (1930's), Latin Playboys, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, The Reverend Horton Heat, Baxter, Lamb, L7, Olive, Fischerspooner, Terranova, Vast, P'taah, Frou Frou, Cold Play, U2, Jeff Buckley, Beck, Jack Johnson, Michelle Shocked, Al Green, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Steel Pulse, and of course, Rosin Covin (My brothers band playing Pagan Lounge Music!); basically everything inspired and fresh, from Bach to Bauhaus, much of what they play on KCRW and Indie 103.1.
Movies
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Science of Sleep, Belle Du Jour, The Corporation, Recount, Total Denial, Under the Bombs, Persopolis, In the Valley of Elyah, Saving Grace, The Assasination of Jesse James, Reservation Road, Eastern Promises, The Notebook, Lust, Caution, Lars and the Real Girl, Bourne Ultimatum, The Dark Knight, Casino Royal, Pan's Labrynth, Half Nelson, Wings of Desire, Kidulthood, Dancer in the Dark, La Double Vie de Veronique, 400 Blows, My Life as a Dog, Brazil, Munich, Syriana, The Constant Gardener, Crash, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Breaking the Waves, Love Story, Finding Neverland, Closer, Waking Life, What the bleep..., An Inconvenient Truth, Fahrenheit 9/11, Requiem For A Dream, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rushmore, A Clockwork Orange, Nosferatu, All About Eve, Mephisto, The Graduate, On the Waterfront, Citizen Cane, Altered States, Legends of the Fall, Dances with Wolves, The Machinist, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Sting, Close Encounters, Alien, The Big Chill, When Harry Met Sally, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Baraka, Dr. Strangelove, Thunderball, Dr. No, The Bourne Supremacy, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill!, Hotel Rwanda, Sometimes in April,
Television
Mad Men, Damage, Lost, Arrested Development, Flight of the Conchords, Battlestar Galactica, Shootout, Greg the Bunny, The Green, Planet Earth, Big Ideas for a Small Planet
Books
Somehow my book list was deleted, but here are a few for now - Sidartha, the Power of Now, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, On the Road, The Four Agreements, My Cousin-My Gastronologist, Rumi, Hesse, Richard Bach, Jack Kerouac, Asimov, David Sedaris
Heroes
Underdog, mighty mouse and atom ant . . . not necessarily in that order.