Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamatzov
Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Calvino, Invisible Cities
Barthelme, Sixty Stories
Borges, Labyrinths
Casteneda, The Teachings of don Juan
Krakauer, Into the Wild
Simpson, Touching the Void
Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
Plato's Dialogues
Descartes, Meditations
Heidegger, Being and Time
Foucault, The Order of Things
Some films I've found entertaining or interesting over the years include...
Linklater, Before Sunrise and Waking Life
Mamet/Foley, Glenngary, Glenn Ross
Schepisi, Six Degrees of Separation
Frears, Dangerous Liaisons
Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters
Nichols, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Altman, The Player
Cohen brothers, Blood Simple
Vachon, Safe
Cohen brothers, Raising Arizona
Salle, Search and Destroy
Demme, Swimming to Cambodia
Marker, La Jetee
Tarkovsky, Tracker
I grew up listening to classical music and enjoyed small-ensemble, authentic-instrument and vocal chamber music the most. Now I mostly listen to classic jazz, but other music that characterizes my tastes over the years includes...
The Clash, London Calling
Elvis Costello, My Aim is True
The Minutemen, Double Nickles on the Dime
The Velvet Underground, Loaded
Camper Van Beethoven, Key Lime Pie
Van Morrison, Enlightenment and Tupelo Honey
Donovan, Best of
Wilco, Being There, Summerteeth
The Jayhawks, Tomorrow the Green Grass
I've also enjoyed many live shows by "California locals" The Mother Hips!
Mingus, Mingus Moves
Milt Jackson, Beebop