Working with local arts organizations, animals, making jewelry, music, movies, food, meeting new people, reading, science, being outdoors, crude jokes, taking pictures.
An octopus wearing a top hat.
The Mars Volta, Depeche Mode, Swell, Lovage, Sage Francis, Babes in Toyland, Four Tet, Swans, Sarah Vaughan, James Apollo, Cat Power, Underworld, Denali, The Reindeer Section, Eyedea & Abilities, Billie Holiday, Eels, Rada, Elysian Fields, Frank Sinatra, Moloko, That 1 Guy, The Faint, Dredg, Chad Vangaalen, MF Doom, Bjork, Portishead, James Brown, Vox Vermillion, Mclusky, Bonobo, Octopus Project, Wolf Eyes, The Supremes, Chinese Stars, Between the Buried and Me, 31 Knots, Portugal the Man, Mastodon, Aimee Mann, Danger Mouse, Pelican, Nick Cave, Aretha Franklin, A Whisper in the Noise, Death From Above 1979, Flight of the Conchords, Arab Strap, Russian Circles.
Henry Fool, Buffalo '66, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Waking Life, Punch Drunk Love, Kill Bill, Being John Malkovich, Run Lola Run, anything directed by Matthew Barney, etc., etc.
Six Feet Under, Adult Swim.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chuck Palahniuk, Kafka, David Sedaris, Philip K. Dick.
My cat, Mogwai. She eats bugs.