acting, voice overs ,cooking, reading, food theory, food as science and this lil lady....
You. People that I see all the time but don't really know, other actors, other improvisers, people who have passions and legitimate things to talk about. Hey, check out these voice overs I did (read: shameless plug)
Literally everything. Bluegrass to Sinatra to Country to Zep to Rap to Reggae. But especially Big L, Talking Heads, George Thorogood, Big Pun, Tom Waits, Jack Johnson, James Brown, Baldi and Suburban Graffitti, Common, Redman, The Roots, Miles Davis, Sublime, Van Halen, (not Van Hagar).
Godfather I and II. Swingers, Big Lebowski, The Endless Summer, Laird, Yakuza Papers, The Last Picture Show, La Dolce Vita, Jesus Camp, Talking Heads Live!, Half Nelson, Little Miss Sunshine, Thank You For Smoking, The Last King of Scotland, Toxic Avenger I, II and III, Zombie Honeymoon, Smoke, Hoop Dreams, O Brother! Where art thou?, 300,
Yes I have a television. Molto Mario, Lidias Family Table, anything on Court TV, anything with Sharks, the Discovery Channel, History Channel, SOPRANOS, entourage, Rome, Mexico One Plate at a time with Rick Bayless, Cookin' in brooklyn, Daisy Cooks, Yan Can cook, steam pipe alley with mario cantone.
OK geeze. Most of my books are either play scripts, ancient texts (Iliad, Aenied, The Buccolics, The Odyssey) and food related books. Great ones are "Cod" and "Salt" by Mark Kurlansky. I also really enjoyed "The Omnivore's Dilemma" as well as "Charcturie" and "Vino Italiano". Ooh Ooh wait! I love Mark Twain - pretty much anything with local color and local regional flair. Thomas Hart Benton is my favorite american artist for this exact reason.
Euripedes, Thomas Sowell, Martin Yan.