Art in any capacity, green rooms, coffee and a good book, lomography, good jazz, afternoon outings to museums and boutiques, rocking my Air Force Ones, graduating, traveling, scribbling lines on napkins, napping, and making music with my incredibly talented group of friends. Smiling's my favorite.
Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell, Norah Jones, Patrick Watson, Chris Thile, Bela Fleck, Radiohead, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Feist, Corinne Bailey Rae, Spoon, Thad Cockrell, The Roots, Ryan Adams, Soulive, Joao Gilberto, Patty Griffin, Magnet, Django, Grappelli, Andre3000, T. Monk, Prince, D'Angelo, Chet Baker, Doves, Astor Piazzolla, acoustic Jason Mraz, Kate Walsh, M. Ward, John Mayer (Trio), Ella Fitzgerald, Ane Brun, Scofield, Brubeck, Bird, Coltrane, India.Arie, Teddy Thompson, Nick Drake, Jonah Smith, James Brown, Ray Lamontagne, Gillespie, Julie Lee, Shelby Lynne, Bobby Hamrick, Soulforce, The Wafers, Jill Scott, Gypsy Pompe, old Sheryl Crow, Danny Elfman, Bernard Hermann, Wilco, John Legend, Lauryn Hill, Vusi Mahlasela, and Bach.
Rear Window. Film Noir in general. Anything Hitchcock, Sam Mendes, The Coen Brothers, Frank Capra, Jonze/Kauffman, or Woody Allen
LOST, Band of Brothers, Weeds, and anything that airs on Bravo or HGTV.
Are underrated. Now: This is Your Brain on Music- Levitin. Always: the Harry Potter series, Screwtape Letters, Brave New World, Catch-22, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Stephen King "On Writing", The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, anything by Thomas Harris, Great Expectations, and The Scarlett Letter. Read A Problem from Hell. Do it.
Tom Dowd. Look him up.