townes van zandt, lucinda williams, michael franti, buddy guy, neil young, emmy lou harris, lauryn hill, chet baker, dizzy g., bird, nina simone, tool, rolling stones, m. davis, coltrane, latin jazz, charles mingus, beck, fugees, muddy, satchmo, white stripes,

anything by E.O. Wilson, John Irving, Vonnegut, Urrea, carl sagan, tolkein, maugham, Garcia- Marquez, tom robbins!!, kingsolver, j. diamond, chomsky, wendell berry, thoreau, emerson, whitman, Zadie Smith, M. cuningham,david suzuki, thich nhat hahn

apocalypse now, motor cycle diaries, y tu mama tambien, anything by woody allen(except most of the last decades work), blade runner, kurosawa films, all coen brother's movies, blues brothers, lost in translation, almodovar's films,

kayaking,running,swimming,traveling,READING great literature and science/nature books, photography,and sitting.