Mostly, I'm just into radio stories, temperance, sailing, flying, opera, Arizona photography, English Premier League Football, greyhound racing, the restoration of Habeas Corpus in this country, and the political and personal destruction of George W. Bush.And www.dailykos.com, of course.
Opera, X, The Beat Farmers, Richard Strauss, Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Beatrice Bonifassi, Happy End, The Polka Family Band, Billy Bragg, Alison Kraus, Dawn Upshaw, 10,000 Maniacs, Bob Dylan, Anne Sofie von Otter, Ini Kamoze, Brave Combo, Desmond Dekker, Green Day, Natalie Dessay, Bix Beiderbecke, Herb Alpert, Jimmy Cliff, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Velvet Underground, Gillian Welch, Sonny Rollins, Giuseppe Verdi, Henry Rollins, Fastball, Toots & the Maytals, Ultravox, Puccini, Eddie Blazonczyk, Montserrat Caballe, Edith Piaf, The Blasters, Jacques Brel, The Waterboys, The Minutemen, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Scrubby and the Dynatones, The Clash, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Fiorenza Cossotto, Bob Marley, Cheryl Studer, Teresa Berganza, Los Lobos, Artie Shaw, Ariadne auf Naxos, Squeeze, Emmylou Harris, The Ramones, Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, and many others...
Independent Film, Foreign Cinema, Old Movies, The Station Agent, Barcelona, The Tiger and the Snow. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Muriel's Wedding, Das Boot, Salvador, The Wild Bunch, Lawrence of Arabia, Swingers, Strictly Ballroom, Funny Bones, La Discrete, Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco, Bullets Over Broadway, The Bad News Bears, Un Couer en Hiver, Pedro Almadovar, Tous les matins du monde, Hannah and her Sisters, Trois Couleurs, Dead End, The Aristocrats, The Tao of Steve, Monsieur Verdoux, L.A. Confidential, Citizen Kane, American Beauty, Paper Moon, The Decline of Western Civilization, Xanadu, Breaking Glass, Clerks, Sideways, Maria Full of Grace, Jaws, Lost in Translation, The Year My Voice Broke, Flirting, Casablanca, The 40-Year Old Virgin, Hair, Paper Moon, Salaam Bombay, Spirit of the Beehive, Belle Epoque, The English Patient, The Daytrippers, The Thin Red Line, Touch of Evil, Adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, The Beaver Trilogy, A Clockwork Orange, Gone with the Wind, Gregory's Girl, The Stunt Man, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Please Don't Eat the Babies
Dream Team, The Minor Accompishments of Jackie Woodman, The Henry Rollins Show, Entourage, The Colbert Report, This American Life, The Daily Show, Extras, PBS
David Corn, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Goldstein, Ira Glass, Eugene Ionesco, Voltaire, David Sedaris, Paul Theroux, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, John Hodgman, Starlee Kine, Annie Dillard, Scott Carrier, Alexandre Dumas pere, Sarah Vowell, Anatole France, J.D. Salinger, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Mikhail Bulgakov, To Kill a Mockingbird, J.R.R. Tolkien, Susanna Clarke, Herman Melville, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Lawrence Durrell, Stendhal, W. Somerset Maugham, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thornton Wilder, Chekhov, Graham Greene, Jon Krakauer, Billy Collins, The Elements of Style, Al Franken, The Phoenix New Times
Al Gore
Saint Joan
The Polish Resistance
Country Dick Montana
A tremendous machine...