Reading, writing, listening to music, playing music, tinkering with computers.
Musicians of the blues, folk, country or rock persuasion, in particular drummers and bassists who'd be interested in trying to play some shows around Chicago. I'm particularly interested in doing some sort of blues/folk drums/guitar duo, like the Black Keys or White Stripes but with more of a traditional, acoustic-oriented aesthetic.
The Misfits, The Carter Family, The Fiery Furnaces, Jimi Hendrix, RL Burnside, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, James Brown, BB King, Taj Mahal, Bob Dylan, The White Stripes, Hank Williams, PUSA, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Violent Femmes, etc etc etc
Anything by George Romero (particularly Night, Dawn and Day of the Dead), any John Wayne western, any Clint Eastwood western, anything directed by Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, Sergio Leone or the Coen Brothers, Akira Kurosawa, lots of concert films and musical documentaries, etc
Penn and Teller's Bullshit, The Daily Show, South Park, Lost, Boston Legal, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly
Novels by Douglas Adams, James Joyce, Herman Hesse, Kurt Vonnegut, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald; comics by Brian K. Vaughan, Robert Kirkman, Brian Michael Bendis, Alan Moore, Neil Gaimain, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Harvey Pekar, Dave Sim, Dan Clowes and Chris Ware; plus philosophy, theology and science in general