Books, Movies, Dining (fine or otherwise), Autos, weight training, writing, strong coffee, cigars, Vegas, Austin, Art, and the art of sobriety
I'd like to meet:
Van Gogh, Basquiat, Frida, Dali, Magritte, Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, Zelda and F. Scott, Iceberg Slim, Miles Davis, Billie Holliday, Freud, early hominids
Music:
Neil Young, Tool, Miles Davis, Velvet Underground, Shooter Jennings, Beck, Faith No More, Slayer, Alice in Chains (Layne Staley RIP), Eagles of Death Metal, Gary Jules, Rage, Hendrix, Floyd, Doors, Smashing Pumpkins (Gish, one of my top 5 albums), Captain Beefheart, Radiohead, Strokes, Bowie, White Stripes, Pavement, Jack Johnson, Butthole Surfers, Stevie Ray, Al Green, NIN, Bob Marley, Ravonettes, Pantera, Mars Volta, Ryan Adams, Reverend Horton Heat, Pixies, Roots, Sparta, Led Zep, that old Minneapolis sound (Prince, The Time, Replacements, Husker Du), Hives, Billie Holliday, System of a Down, old school rap, select '80s pop that suckers me into nostalgia...oh, and did I mention Neil Young?
Movies:
Films by PT Anderson, Bad Lieutenant, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Go, American Me, Fargo, Affliction, Easy Rider, The Devil's Rejects, A Simple Plan, The Sweet Hereafter, Eyes Wide Shut, Days of Wine and Roses, Spinal Tap, Hustle & Flow, True Romance, Jackie Brown and all other Tarantino, The Swimmer, Glengarry GlenRoss, Taxi Driver, Sunset Boulevard, Office Space, Scarface, People vs. Larry Flynt, East of Eden (James Dean, only 3 films and a legend), Godfather, most films directed by Scorcese, Lynch, Kubrik, Egoyan; most films with Al Pacino, and give credit to Gary Oldman (i.e. Sid&Nancy), a highly underrated actor
Television:
Real Time w/Bill Maher, Nip/Tuck, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, OZ reruns, NBA games, High Def Hockey, Lost, MSNBC Investigates, City Confidential, Breaking Bonaduce, Countdown, Hardball, Tucker, HBO docs, The Wire, anything with my man Bill Kurtis, and if insomnia still has its grips at 3am I watch Joey Greco wax philosophical on Cheaters
Books:
Nonfiction: science, auto/bio, true crime; Fiction: Faulkner, F. Scott, Flaubert, Ellison (Invisible Man), Baldwin, Updike, Emerson, William T. Vollman, Will Self, Dennis Johnson, master stylist and satarist Bret Ellis
