petting squirrels, music, baseball, koalas, red pandas, Europe, songwriting, dictator chic, staying up way too late.
Alan Rickman. Rudi Dutschke. Frank Zappa.
Tindersticks, Hooverphonic, Portishead, Mogwai, Husker Du, Replacements, Buffalo Tom, Bettie Serveert, Juno, Sugar, American Music Club, Brahms, Bruch, The Verve, Richard Ashcroft, Cast, Pixies, Luna, Galaxie 500, Damien Jurado, Pedro, most anything with strings. early David Bowie. The Divorce, Peter Gabriel, Buddy Holly, Haloween, Alaska ... Aveo, Crooked Fingers, Archers of Loaf, Spain, and on and on. The new Low album is amazing. OK, it's not that new anymore, but you get the idea.
Veronica Guerin, Red/White/Blue trilogy, Das Boot, Bowling for Columbine, Big Sleep, Have or Have Not, Gaslight, The Kids are Allright, Red Rock West, Fire Walk With Me, State and Main, Best In Show, Europa Europa, Storefront Hitchcock, Cry Freedom, Hudsucker Proxy
Syndicated, news and rentals, that's pretty much my deal. I've gotten hooked on Alias recently. Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, The Daily Show, South Park. WKRP in Cincinnati, Mystery Science Theatre 3000. McClaughlin Group, Real Time with Bill Maher. Simpsons, of course.
Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Master and the Margarita, short stories by Nikolai Gogol, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, They Shall Know Us By Our Velocity, The Long Goodbye, Flowers of Evil.
Steven Biko, Nelson Mandela, Robyn Hitchcock, Veronica Guerin, my mom.