General
abandoned +/or really old places, alpine mountains, animal architecture, animal aesthetics & cognition & emotion, animals in space (never forget!), antlers + horns + hooves (ungulates), ART, bicycles, bog bodies + mummies, cannabis, CINEMA, edible wild plants, foreign languages (Japanese + Italian), FOOD, industrial design, interspecies bonding & communication, introversion, intuitive leaps, logic, the mundane, MUSIC, mutual intelligibility, natural disasters + storms, neuroplasticity, nuts + seeds + berries, public libraries, quitting, rebellion, scars, self-overcoming, SLEEP vs. INSOMNIA, svastika, trees, tumbleweeds, volcanic activity, wilderness survival, zoopharmacognosy
Music
multiple drummers! baroque (esp. J.S. Bach), Melvins, Nick Drake, The Saints, Dave Brubeck, Camera Obscura, most of Glenn Danzig's ouvre. Taylor Hanson, GG Allin, Lightning Bolt, Hildegard von Bingen, 1970s Judas Priest, krautrock, etc.
Movies
The 400 Blows. Aguirre: The Wrath of God. Alphaville. Animals Are Beautiful People. Hour of the Wolf. L'Eclisse. The Nutty Professor (1963). Pootie Tang. Princess Mononoke. Raising Arizona. Santa Sangre. Spirit of the Beehive. Through a Glass Darkly. horror movies without cgi.
Television
Tim & Eric (Season Cinco, please!!)... some other Adult Swim stuff sometimes. Sir David Attenborough, always. Documentaries. Canadian sketch comedy. Sister Wendy.
Books
Abé, Borges, Camus, Cortázar, Derrida, Nietzsche, Sagan; The Ancestor's Tale (Richard Dawkins), The Art of Quitting (Evan Harris), Beautiful People with Beautiful Feelings (Donny Miller), Black Spring (Henry Miller), Cruel Shoes + Pure Drivel (Steve Martin), The Lake (Yasunari Kawabata), My Last Sigh (Luis Buñuel), Riddley Walker (Russell Hoban), Solaris (Stanislaw Lem), The Thief's Journal (Jean Genet)... any/all writing by Eula Biss.
Heroes
Janine Antoni, Tanja Askani, David Attenborough, Joseph Beuys, Julia Child, Charles + Ray Eames, Marc Emery, Bob Flanagan, Evelyn Glennie, Curly Howard, Andy Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Akihiro Miwa, Raymond Pettibon, Fred Rogers, Annette Schwarz.