Long-distance/marathon running. Snowboarding. Golfing. Road trips. Special features. Rice crispy squares. Linear notes. Napping. Soup. Talking or not talking for hours.
Chewbacca
Kurt Rosenwinkel, Beastie Boys, Keith Jarrett, Otis Redding, Cake, Interpol, Led Zeppelin, NERD, Clipse, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, Dexter Gordon, Steve Reich, Rush, Bob Marley, Jeff Buckley, Mos Def, Leonard Cohen, The Band, Jaco Pastorius, The Tragically Hip, The Funk Brothers, Parliament, Earth Wind and Fire, Kool and the Gang, Curtis Mayfield, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, The Meters, Genesis, Chris Cornell, Soundgarden, Rage against the Machine, THE CLASH, David Bowie, Nile Rogers, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Franz Ferdinand, Ahmed Jamal, Charlie Mingus, Steve Cropper, Dwight Yoakum, Moka Only, Tribe Called Quest, Hank Williams III, Chet Baker, Kenny Wheeler, Johnny Cash, Lenny Breau, Willie Nelson, Chet Atkins, Earl Scruggs, Keith Jarrett, Ornette Coleman, Paul Chambers Wynton Kelly and Jimmy Cobb/Philly Joe Jones, AC/DC, The Roots, Kinnie Starr, Chris Gestrin, Jon Bentley, Brad Turner, Metalwood, Seamus Blake, Chad Makela, Jodi Proz Tilden "World Wide" Webb and Jesse "Jesseca Hill" Cahill, Oliver Gannon (Yoda), Bill Coon, Coco Love Alcorn, Ben Monder, The Front, Sweatshop Union, TyC and JC Subliminal, Sloan, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, NWA, Snoop, Glenn Gould, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Messugah, Megadeth, Art Blakey, Van Halen, Yes, Kia Kadiri, K-os, James Brown, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, John Mclaughlin, The Police, Shakti, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Bach, Aaron Copeland, Bartok, Thelonius Monk, Joe Pass, Charlie Parker, Pat Martino, Django Reinhardt, Tragically Hip, U2, Mark Turner, The Bad Plus, Radiohead, Elliot Smith, Aimee Mann, Joni Mitchell, Elvin Jones, Steve Grossman, Prince, and any other music that comes from both sides of people's brains, okay enough for now....
Directors: Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Guest, Darren Aronofsky, Todd Solondz, Kevin Smith, David Fincher, Richard Linklater, the Cohen bros. AND of course Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles, Elia Kazan, David Lynch, John Hughes, Sergio Leone, Tim Burton, David Lean, Milos Forman, Terry Gilliam, etc.Donnie Darko, Buffalo 66, The Corporation, The Graduate, Apocolypse Now, Caddyshack, The Naked Lunch, Good Will Hunting, Trekkies, High Fidelity, LOTR, 32 short films about Glenn Gould, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Star Wars, Fubar, Office Space, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut, Manufacturing Consent, Godfather I II, but I have to say, and I love the independent, quirky, thought provoking shit but.....my favorite movie of all time is still Jaws.
I have a very unhealthy addiction to the Sopranos, South Park, and Six Feet Under.
Too many to name but favorites include Chomsky, Rand, Dostoevsky, and a lot of math books lately.
Howard Roark, Steve Prefontaine, Jerome Iginla, Chewbacca