David Bowie, Neko Case, The Heartless Bastards, Cat Power, First National Band, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, Vangelis, Tori Amos, Bernard Hermann, Hoagy Carmichael, Joe Jackson, Cat Stevens, Al Stewart, Liszt, Philip Glass, Dead Can Dance, Billie Holiday, Gloria Jones, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Radiohead, Portishead, Gabriela Montero, Schubert, Mozart, Captain Beefheart, Aimee Mann, Maria McKee, RL Burnside, Howlin' Wolf, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, The Pixies, Leahy, Catherine Wheel, Röyksopp.
Anything good. Any genre.

Thubten Chödrön. Pema Chödrön. Jane Addams. Peace Corps alumni. My friends. My wonderful man. My kids. Anyone who better themselves or simply chooses to do the better thing, despite the world.

Meet John Doe... well, any Capra. Most Polanski, Hitchcock, Hawks, Huston. Anything with Lombard, Bogart, MacMurray, Stanwyck, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Edward G., Lon Chaney Sr., the Universal horrors, most Val Lewton-produced, Night of the Eagle/Burn Witch Burn, Night of the Demon/Curse of the Demon, The Day the Earth Stood Still, most Elia Kazan, the films of Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, Chaplin, various horror, older British stuff...I'm a sucker for a good documentary... Netflix is my friend.