Watching birds (in the woods or in town, sometimes with binoculars while driving) finding new music and forcing it on my friends, cooking wacky ethnic food, planning my mini-farm, researching our next vacation, rudimentary knitting (I've yet to purl,) bringing our 70's house in to the 21st century, live tunes w/ brews, rollercoasters, pick-your-own fields and orchards, getting lots of doggies together to run around and act crazy
My old friends who are scattered hither and yon at every possible opportunity. New friends who have excellent musical taste as well as cast-iron livers.
Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Stevie/Fleetwood Mac, Van the Man, VU, Cowboy Junkies, Feelies, Pixies, Jayhawks, Whiskeytown, Old 97s, Shins, Jets to Brazil, Pavement, Urge Overkill, Lucero, OCMS, Blue Mountain, Innocence MIssion, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Dwight Yoakum, Mammals, Eve, Uncle Tupelo & (Old) Son VOLT(okay are you satisfied?!!!), Calexico, Beth Orton, Duhks, Built to Spill, Decemberists, Thievery Corp., Gram Parsons, Damien Rice, everybodyfields, Neko Case, ambulance ltd., Blue Mountain, Cat Power, Black Keys, Crooked Fingers, Dolly Parton, Patty Griffin, Nickel Creek, Fiest, Mary J. Blige, Lil Kim, The Stands, Iron & Wine, Hem (thanks R!)
The Parrots of Telegraph Hill (thanks T&L,)Wild at Heart, Raising Arizona, Being John Malkovich, Secretary, ANYTHING with zombies, recently enjoyed Thank You for Smoking
Simpsons, Law & Order, Rescue Me, Dr. Who (Tom Baker only,) Family Guy, The Shield, S&TC, Robot Chicken-though I don't actually watch TV very often, maybe 1-2Xs per week
The Secret History, Geek Love, Night, Childhood's End, Lonesome Dove series, everything by Irving Welsh, anything by Ellen Gilchrist, Michael Pollan and David Attenborough books (natural history,) anything about small flock chicken husbandry (are you noticing a theme here?) anything by Isabel Allende, anything by Marge Piercy
Margaret Sanger, Mahatma Gandhi, Paul Rusebagina, Dalai Lama, ummmmm.....TBC