Sailing, boat building, yacht design, yachting, My Maserati, Classic cars, Italian cars, Humanities, study of History(American, Roman and middle eastern), Anthropology, Ancient languages, comparative religion( Cosmology)Islamic studies, and Genealogy

Classic rock, Grateful Dead, Steve miller band, Eagles, Santana, pink Floyd, led zeppelin, 80's The cure, the Smiths, echo and the bunnymen, reggae, what's on the radio, influences from the Newport Jazz and Folk Fest. Woodstock..., Classical (Mozart, Bach)

Full metal jacket, Reeffer madness, lords of dogtown, kung-fu flix, the good the bad the ugly, Westerns, Action adventure, science fiction

Discovery channels, History channel, the news..., That 70's show, Grounded for life, Bones, prison break, numb3rs, grays anatomy, Gilligans island

The Dictionary...
Harvard Classics
Oxford books of world history
"The history of the English speaking people" by Sir Winston Churchill
Skeenes book of yacht design
John G. Alden Yacht designs
Francis L. Herroshoff Yacht designs
Philip Rhodes, Yacht designs
joshua slocum
"Be here now", by Richard Alpert(baba ram Dass)
"the greening of America" Charles Reicht
"on the road" Jack Kerouac
"electric kool-aid acid test" Tom Wolf
"The Fall of America" Allen Ginsberg
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"Ken Kesey
"The Hog Farm and Friends"Wavy Gravy
"Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy" Douglas Adams
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" Hunter S Thompson
Books by Isaac Asimov, James A. Michener,

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."Albert Einstein

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut" Albert Einstein


"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." Albert Einstein