Photography, film, basketball, good writing, bad writing, Chess, theoretical snowboarding, stacking books in piles, collecting jazz vinyl, using my power tools around the house on unnecessary projects, good wine, downloading music I've never heard of and then deleting it, somewhat less good wine, bike riding, playing guitar, not playing sax.
Anyone who reads. Or has considered reading. Comics and cereal boxes count.Also, I will soon begin reviewing books and cds on my website. If you've written something, or are in a band, feel free to send your work to the contact info at www.seanbeaudoin.com
I know this is way too much stuff, but I have an unhealthy mixture of OCD and strong opinions: Syd Barrett, The Velvet Underground, Django Reinhardt, Cheap Trick, Charles Mingus, The Minutemen, Fela Kuti, Captain Beefheart, The Meters, Chet Baker, Lee Dorsey, Moondog, Coleman Hawkins, James Gang, ESG, Black Sabbath, Archie Shepp, Boris, Sun Ra, MC5, Hank Mobley, Bad Brains, Shostakovitch, Gram Parsons, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Smith, Batucada, Elliot Smith, Fear, Wayne Shorter, Iggy and the Stooges, Bob Wills, Chet Baker, Brian Eno, Zappa, Gilberto Gil, Cannonball Adderly, Mastodon, Jimi Hendrix, Minor Threat, Johnny Hodges, Miles, 50's gospel, Roy Acuff, Johnnie Taylor, Clifton Chenier, Jackie Mittoo, Cymande, Charlie Christian, Ellington, Chuck Brown, Mick Taylor, Johnny Griffin, Gillian Welch, Fats Navarro, Slayer, Roxy Music, Beggar's Banquet, Alan Vega, Legendary Pink Dots, Misfits, Ry Cooder, The Bangles, Roy Eldridge, Throbbing Gristle, Mike James Kirkland, Fate Marable, Husker Du, Mahler, Ornette, Bechet, Charles Ives, Maggot Brain, The Sweet, Larry Young. Especially Larry Young.
Sweet Smell Of Success, Manchurian Candidate (Sinatra version), Clockwork Orange, Spinal Tap, Out Of The Past, In A Lonely Place, Network, The Hospital, Prime Cut, The King Of Marvin Gardens, Mean Streets, Hail Hail Rock And Roll, Raging Bull, Blade Runner, Betty Blue, Miller's Crossing, Paths Of Glory, The Thing, The Lady From Shanghai, The Shining, Odds Against Tomorrow, Melvin Comes To Dinner, To Have And Have Not, Aguirre: Wrath Of God, Salvador, Maxie Rosenbloom, Elisha Cook Jr., Klaus Kinski, Sterling Hayden, Bert Lancaster, Errol Flynn, Samantha Eggar, Werner Herzog, Julie Christie, Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Lee Marvin, George C. Scott, Elevator To The Gallows.
The Wire, Jon Stewart, Rome, 49ers.
Celine, Bukowski, Fred Exley, Roald Dahl, H.L. Mencken, Evelyn Waugh, Robert Musil, Dostoyevsky, James Salter, Steven Wright, Cormac McCarthy, Herodotus, Alexander Herzen, Nabakov, Lester Bangs, Kingsley Amis, HST, Nelson Algren, Knut Hamsun, Graham Greene, Hubert Selby, Robert Lowell, Somerset Maugham, William Blake, Samuel Butler, Denis Johnson, Samuel Pepys, Edward Gorey, "You Can't Win", the autobiography of Jack Black, Aubrey Beardsley.
Aaron Burr, Alexander The Great's Horse, Smedley Darlington Butler, John Coltrane, Oscar Levant, Bertrand Russell, Nat Cole, Lucien Freud, Iceberg Slim, Art Tatum, Thomas Hart Benton, Robert Frank, Robert Graves, Nina Simone, Eric Dolphy, Voltaire, Toussaint L'Overture, Sonny Blount, Bela Bartok, Robert Mitchum, Shirley Chisholm.