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
Movies
slow foreign ones with people losing their minds.
Television
Tim & Eric (Season Cinco, please!!)... some other Adult Swim stuff sometimes. Sir David Attenborough, always. Nature + Wildlife + Science + History Documentaries. Canadian sketch comedy.
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.