Recording and performing music under the name Birthday Suicide, concerts, good red wine, traveling, running, first-edition books, movies, art, pop culture, nature in all forms, and anything that moves me in any form.
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Birthday Suicide, Bright Eyes, Ween, Bob Dylan, Ani Difranco, Elliott Smith, Neil Diamond, John Prine, Commander Venus, Moistboyz, The Flaming Lips, Desaparecidos, Sound of Urchin, Death Cab For Cutie, Arcade Fire, Dashboard Confessional, Instant Death, Primus, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Neil Young, The Grateful Dead, Leonard Cohen, Billy Bragg, Pixies, Beck, The Band, Phish, Tenacious D, Dinosaur Jr., and many other fine folks.
The Fountain, Pan's Labyrinth, Tenacious D: The Pic of Destiny, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek, Hot Fuzz, Gimme Shelter, Don't Look Back, Moore Documentaries, Forrest Gump, Clockwork Orange, 2001:A Space Odyssey, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Grindhouse, Apocalypse Now, Better Off Dead, Spun, Pi, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, Waking Life, Karate Kid, Karate Kid II, Midnight Express, Old School, Requiem for a Dream, The Big Lebowski, Napolean Dynamite, Scarface, Godfather Trilogy, American Psycho, What Happened to Kerouac?, Zorba the Greek, I Heart Huckabees, What The Bleep Do We Know?, Lost in Translation, The Royal Tenenbaums, A Mighty Wind, Spinal Tap, Joe Dirt, Swingers, Moonwalker, Bongwater, Rural Rock&Roll (The Humboldt music documentary), and many other great films as well as many pieces of shit.
The Daily Show, Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, SOPRANOS, Entourage, The First 48, Arrested Development...I don't watch much TV anymore though.
Jack Kerouac, most favorably The Town and the City, Desolation Angels, and Big Sur. William Burroughs, Thomas Wolfe, The Peaceful Warrior Trilogy, Michael Moore, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Autobiography of a Yogi, Filth, Heart of Darkness, Ernest Hemingway's later works, Things Fall Apart, Clockwork Orange, Bob Dylan Chronicles, E.E. Cummings poetry, The Belljar, and too many others.
Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Connor Oberst, Neil Diamond, Hunter S. Thompson, William Burroughs, Jay Crawford, Kristopher Kolodjay, Ani Difranco, Leonard Cohen, Bill Clinton, Dennis Leary, Ralph Macchio, Corey Haim, Chuck Norris, John Ritter's testicles circa episode 134 of Three's Company, Hammy, and John Candy.