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Traveling throughout the world and meeting new folk. I'm a junkie for film and music of I'd like to say all types but it turns out I am rather picky.

Divided by jazz and not-jazz:

Sonic Youth; Tom Waits; Velvet Underground plus Reed's, Cale's, Nico's, and Tucker's solo works; Beck; Husker Du but not so much Mould by himself; REM; David Bowie; The Clash; Captain Beefheart; Talking Heads and pieces of Byrne; Mission of Burma; Sleater-Kinney; Pixies; Bright Eyes; PJ Harvey; The Decemberists; Radiohead; Yo La Tengo; Pavement and Malkmus; The Kinks; The Raincoats; Pere Ubu and especially Peter Laughner; Bob Dylan; Van Morrison; Patti Smith; The Smiths so why not Morrissey; The Shins; Television; and Jim White.

Eric Dolphy; Abbey Lincoln; John Zorn; Don Ellis; Julius Hemphill; George Russell; Max Roach; Bird; Rahsaan Roland Kirk; Django Reinhardt; Charles Mingus; Leo Kottke; Thelonious Monk; Andrew Hill; Dave Holland; Bill Frisell; Sonny Sharrock; Wayne Shorter; Lady Day; Medeski, Martin, and Wood; Booker Little; Frank Zappa; Cannonball Adderly; Oliver Nelson; Malachy Papers (KC, represent!); Coltrane and of course the unstoppable Miles Davis.

Godfather, Godfather, and Godfather, and even Godfather II, but not III because it is tripe; Broken Flowers, Ghost Dog, Stranger than Paradise, and everything else Jim Jarmusch has done and will ever do; early Jackie Chan stuff, preferably with god-awful subtitles on a terribly grainy picture, but I'll settle for any cheesy kung-fu fest movie; The Aristocrats; Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Aguirre: Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, (Thank you Herzog); Wong Kar-Wai stuff; Tarantino's films; Breathless, Alphaville, Contempt and most everything else of Godard, and, well, practically all of French New Wave; monologues by Spalding Gray; most everything by Woody Allen; zombie flicks!; Seven Samarai and much else by Kurosawa; Tampopo; Fireworks; everything Scorsese has touched; This is Spinal Tap; La Strada; Dr. Strangelove; Children of Paradise; The Pink Panther series; Marx Brothers; The Jerk; Airplane; M*A*S*H, The Player, Short Cuts, Gosford Park, and many other Altman flicks (KC, represent!); Zorba the Greek; The Gods Must Be Crazy; 8 1/2; and if it weren't for poor casting, The Passion. Everyone knows Pauly Shore should have been given the leading role.

And animation by Don Hertzfeldt, Bill Plympton, and Richard Condie.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
-Ray Bradbury

I don't want my MTV.

Haruki Murakami is God.

Oh, and John Updike is pretty good too. Then there is David Sedaris, Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey, Burroughs and his Beat brethren, Lester Bangs, Dave Eggers, Mark Twain, In Cold Blood, Kurt Vonnegut, Hubert Selby, Jr., practically anything in short-story format, James Ellroy (come back to KC, please!), Confederacy of Dunces, Calvin and Hobbes, Hunter S. Thompson, Catch-22 and God Knows, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, and many more.

Everyone listed above.