Art, music, writing, and bearable weather (i.e. cold sunny days.) Beanies, Friends, Mountains, Not having to drive a fucking car, Live music, Austin, Felt tip pins, clean socks, Vicodin and all of her ilk, Coffee and cigarettes, stand up comedy, Good bars, Traveling, Bicycles, Portland?, Reading, Long meals with friends, Weeping willows, Certain typesets, Bagels and Lox, Activism, Tattoos, Red wine, Minimalism, secularism, isms,
Lunatics, outsiders and the like. People who think often, laugh frequently. People who are doing something creative, or a number of creative things. People in or around Denver.
Okkervil River, Centro-matic, South San Gabriel, Eels, Townes Van Zandt, Regina Spektor, Tribe Called Quest, The Cure, Joy Division, Gangstar, Pinback, Radiohead, Helio Sequence, Elliot Smith, Beastie Boys, Will Johnson, Muse, Stars, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Ani Difranco, The Misfits, Pleasant Grove, Baptist Generals, Aimee Mann, Ray Lamontagne, Kool Keith, Mos Def, Sigur Rois, Legendary Shack Shakers, Andrew Bird, Operation Ivy, Bad Religion, Fugazi, GG Allin, Portishead, Tricky, Bad Brains, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, The Arcade Fire, Hot Chip, Neil Young, John Prine, Fiona Apple, The Devastations, Sophmore Jinx, Have Nots, Appleseed Cast, The Frames, Damien Rice, Rufus Wainright, The Smiths, The Dresden Dolls,The Flaming Lips, The Postal Service, Tv on the Radio, Wolf Parade, My Morning Jacket, Modest Mouse, Matson Jones, Hot IQs
Primer, Magnolia, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Immortal Beloved, Edward Scissor Hands, City of God, Amelie,Hedwig, City of lost children, Usual Suspects, Dancer in the Dark, Sexy Beast, Slam!, North by Northwest, Donny Darko, Better off Dead, All Wes Anderson, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Ciderhouse Rules, Door in the Floor, Keep the River to your Right, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, V for Vendetta, Blue Velvet, Kung Fu Hustle, Be Here to Love Me, Tarnation, Goonies, Stranger Than Fiction
Frontline, POV, Austin City Limits, Lost, American Experience, Colbert Report, Daily Show, Conan, Planet Earth
To kill a Mocking Bird, James Morrow, Philip Pullman, David Sedaris, Augusten Burrroughs(unless he actually is a fabricator of the James Frey variety), Frank Herbert, Sam Lipsyte, Howard Zinn, John Irving, Philip K Dick, Chuck Palahnuik, China Mieville, Haruki Murakami, John Irving, Michael Chabon (Giving aspiring writers every where a reason to give up), David Foster Wallace, Johnathan Safran Foer,
Anybody doing what they love and not giving a fuck what it amounts to.