Artie Shaw
Jimmy Lunceford
George Shearing
Glen Miller
Benny Goodman
Margaret Whiting
Ella Fitzgerald
Frank Sinatra (the Nelson Riddle years)
Wolfie Mozart
Johnny Hartman
Dexter Gordon
Jimmy Smith
Mildred Bailey
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Dina Washington
Jo Stafford (with or without the Modernaires)
Lud V. Beethoven
Nat Cole
Edward K. Ellington
Count Basie... you get the idea.

most any Peter Sellers Pink Panther flick
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Laura (GREAT theme music, too!)
most Hitchcock
The High and the Mighty
The Dam Busters (original, not the politically correct remake)
In Harm's Way
Cinerama Holiday
The Manchurian Candidate (again, the real one)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday
most film noir, especially ones with Lucille Ball in dramatic roles (she was quite good!)

Life on the Mississippi, Roughing It, Innocents Abroad, Letters from the Earth (S. L. Clemmens)

Dear Me (Peter Ustinov)
The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)

just about any collection of Thurber essays

It was computers, but I find that I now just want them to work rather than futzing around with this and that. Something like the transition from Jaguar ownership to owning a Chevy.

Photography; the Internet; I am a voracious reader; fixing up my little house.

A kindly human grizzly, living a reasonably contented life in Nashville Tennessee. I've been one to admire a good beard for many years, and am glad my genes permit my participation in the world of hairy faces.