on-going life themes: irony, empathy, perserverance, intuition, perception, learning, challenges, miracles

nature, people, books, movies, anthropology, world politics, community issues, outer space

practically any, not quite all, top of the list--folk

apocalypse now, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, platoon, yellow submarine, grizzly man, march of the penguins, what dreams may come, blade runner, apollo 13, ghandi, the gods must be crazy, out of africa, seven years in tibet, ferris bueller's day off, aliens, contact, jacob's ladder, donnie darko, the deer hunter, the blues brothers, shrek, the life aquatic, ray, tuesdays with morrie, forrest gump, star wars, jaws, really stupid b-grade horror films, plus almost anything independent, finally--almost anything foreign with subtitles, thanks for reading the whole list, i bet i forgot a few

don't have reception, don't want it

almost any, possibly all, definitely too many to list, top three would be the prophet by kahlil gibran, the dancers of arun, Nicholas and Alexandra, currently reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, part one of the system of a world series, recently finished perdido street station