...Education, Communication, Conviviality, Philosophy, Psychology, Politics, Debate, Tattoo, Writing, Reading, Pillaging,
MATs, Faded Memories, Irony, Comedy, Eccentricity, Short Stories, Contingency, Creativity, Pansexuality
Cheap Liquor, Live Music, Late Nights, Animal Rights, Candlelight, Campfire, Rain on Hot Asphalt, The Occult
Semi-Automatic Weapons, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Panspermia, Nag Champa, Sandalwood, The Sandman Comics, Sarcasm, Brown Dog Smell...
Led Zeppelin, Tool, Nirvana, Primus, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan are always on shuffle in the back of my mind.
I also dig folk blues, old-school electric blues and the Mississippi Delta blues: Robert Johnson, Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bukka White, B.B. King, Big Bill Broonzy, Howlin' Wolf, Blind Willie Johnson, Tracy Nelson, Ledbelly, Muddy Waters, Memphis Minnie, Mississippi John Hurt, Dave Van Ronk etc.
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
I've been working on The Best American Short Stories series (1962-2006) for a few years.
Right now I'm reading: Birds of America.
I also dig authors like: Flannery O'Connor, Lorrie Moore, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, John Fante, Virginia Woolf, Bukowski, Updike, Poe, Hemingway, W.B. Yeats, Richard Hugo, The Brothers Grimm, Ibsen, Paula Vogel etc.
My father: lived fast, died young.