playing music, watching other more talented people play music, the desert and mountains, movies, drinking in bars in strange cities
i would like to meet more people who can keep up witty entertaining conversation whilst imbibing an inordinate amount of alcohol.
a lot! james brown and george jones of course, lee dorsey, bo diddley, velvet underground, the new pornographers, neko, teagan and sara, neutral milk hotel, whatever i am listening to now. bands I'm in or have been in:poison 13/ ballad shambles/ hand of glory/ the horsies/ big foot chester/ the meat purveyors/ cat scientist
seven samurai, the conversation, waiting for guffman, la dolce vita, the lady eve, king of comedy, way too many to even start naming here
six feet under, the wire, the sopranos, curb your enthusiasm, mr. show, entourage--damn it's all HBO! and the simpsons. and the NBA.
libra by don delillo, little big man by thomas berger, lolita by vladimir nabokov, anything that starts witht the letter l
hmmm, a hard one. don't know if i even have any. the more you know about famous people, the less heroic they seem. the guy in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square, maybe. the most heroic things probably happen with few or no witnesses.