traveling, skateboarding, writing, painting on trash, crossword puzzles, magazines, newspapers, books, alleyways and warehouses, wandering, old photographs, yoga, progressive politics, people who challenge themselves.
writers, artists, skaters, thinkers and old friends
Always: Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Fugazi, Yo La Tengo, Wilco, Jay-Z, Pavement, Guided by Voices Lately: Band of Horses, Wolf Parade, Radiohead, Cold War Kids, Wolfe Parade, Regina Spektor, My Morning Jacket, Sun Kil Moon, The Weakerthans
Breathless, Amelie, I am Trying to Break Your Heart, Inhabitants, Sprout, Stereo: A Visual Sound, StaticII, Manhattan, Basquiat, Jaws, Don't Look Back, Good Night and Good Luck, Rocky
Northern Exposure, turning off the television and going outside
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, Kerouac'sDharma Bums, Snyder's Turtle Island, Least-Heat Moon's Blue Highways, Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Mailer's The Fight, Weiland's The Answer is Never, Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries, Celine's Journey to the End of the Night, Steinbeck's Cannery Row, Garcia-Marquez's Strange Pilgrims, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Burn Collector and Cometbus zines
My parents, Gandhi, Che Guevara, Allen Ginsberg, Terri Gross, Craig Stecyk, Ocean Howell