enviga. free sample laps around whole foods. late night laundry. green tea. nudie jeans. adult beverages. pocket change. telling random stories. visions. driving. entertaining clients with my scattered life. spinach and roasted garlic salads. road trips. diet beverage anything. party dips! emergen-c packets. splenda. lowriders. rat rod bobber motorcycles. more shoes. gettin' old.
Yes, I took this one.
Always: Kelly VS. Jason "Float Off Your Shoulder" Summer Mashup '04. WVFS. Early-Mid-Late 90s (insert descriptor here)-core. Old Sad Bastard Music. Anything with a pedal steel guitar. Americana. Paul's Boutique. Crooked Fingers, The Clash, Against Me!, Neutral Milk Hotel, Whiskeytown, Moz, The Smiths, Descendents, Various Nuggetry, Cash, Hank, Iron and Wine, DJ Shadow, Jawbreaker (Dear You, learn it and know it from front to back), Mastodon, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Weezer (blue and pinkerton), Palatka, Reversal of Man, Swing Kids, John Lennon, The Boss, Interpol, Silver Jews, Rolling Stones, Joy Division, Ryan Adams w/ or w/out The Cardinals, and the iPod goes on and on and on...
300!, Annie Hall, Band of Brothers, 24 Hour Party People, Velvet Goldmine, High Fidelity, Better off Dead, Goodfellas, Jaws, Documentaries and many other scattered guilty pleasures...You know what they are.
Any show where there is welding, wild animals, or WW2 involved. Sometimes you get lucky and hit the boxed trifecta.
The Art of War, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Peoples History of the United States, State by State with The State, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Sedaris, High Fidelity, Naked Pictures of Famous People, America (The Audio Book): A Citizens Guide to Democracy Inaction. Whatever happens to be next to my bed at the moment. I definately read more magazines, due to the nature of my business. But hey, it's how I keep on top of why Karl Lagerfeld has 80 iPods.
My immigrant great-grandparents. My grandparents. My folks. People who have/are helping me hone my craft. Anyone who has ever opened their own business, successful or not.