Music. Driving long distances to create distance. Observing. Converting nervous energy into wit. Outrunning jade. Plotting a course. Being wiser. And I read on occasion.
Some soupy mix of the following's genes:
As of the moment: Interpol, The Kinks, The Move, Bowie, Silver Jews, John Fahey, The Jam, The Ventures, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Stereolab, X-Ray Spex, Pavement, Silver Apples, The Hidden Cameras, Serge Gainsbourg, Elliot Smith, Arcade Fire, The Centurions, (Smog), Magnetic Fields, The Hollies, The Wipers, Spoon, The Fall
The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pi, Blade Runner, Deconstructing Harry, The Royal Tenenbaums, High Noon, 'Baseball' by Ken Burns, Ghandi, North by Northwest, and many, many more
Give me anything Vonnegut, Anything Kundera, The World According to Garp, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, All the Classics - especially Hemingway, a little existentialist shit - Camus, and when I'm feeling especially literate - some Updike or Joyce
Stefan Edberg