Baroque

Early classical

Early 20th Century modern classical (especially the French-- Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud, etc., but Stravinsky and others)

'Cool' jazz of the late 1950's and early '60's (Brubeck, Davis, and Monk)

Deep trance drone ambient

Classic sci-fi-- the original The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers

A.I.--Pinocchio retold. Schmaltzy, but most fairy tales are.

Through an Open Window-- a short with Anne Meara

Winter Light-- Bergman at his existentialist angst best.

La Dolce Vita-- Italian angst. Fellini before he went weird. "Ciao, Marcello!"

Umberto D-- Long live Flaik! Dogs have their priorities straight.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley-- materialism, technology, consumerism and Plato as flayed raw by Huxley's wit. Still so prescient, still so great after all these years.

The Closing of the Western Mind by Charles Freeman

The Enlightenment: The Rise of Neo-Paganism by Peter S. Gay-- the 'Neo-Paganism' does not refer to dressing up in robes, worshipping 'the Goddess', cavorting about Stonehenge on the soltice, or other such inanities.

Anything by Stephen Jay Gould

I am a rationalist atheist, but a bit of a 'hot tub' Buddhist; I practice mindfulness meditation.

My interests are kayaking (I was going to say "paddling", but that might elicit the wrong response), hiking, yoga and resistance training (my Bowflex is my friend), astronomy, and paleontology (Darwin was essentially right; get over it).

I like Abstract Expressionist paintings and sculptors such as Moore, Hepworth, and Lipschitz. I was a kid in that era and guess my tastes were formed then.

I really like International Style and Wright Usonian architecture. O, to live in a small glass pavilion cantilevered from a hillside by a river or lake hidden ever so deep in the woods!