Music, Baseball, Food, Cooking, Comedy, Finding shoes and pants that fit
Good people, real people, people not under the sway of celebrity culture, thinkers, dreamers, workers.Really, though, Maria Bello will do. Rip Torn, too.
egad... the beatles, the rolling stones, neil young, the kinks, fleetwood mac (particularly the lindsey-stevie era), pretenders, beck, dylan, springsteen, tom petty & the heartbreakers, the move, e.l.o., cheap trick, led fucking zeppeling, van fucking halen (dlr era), white fucking stripes, dr. dre, N*E*R*D, miles davis, chet baker, stevie wonder, al green, ann peebles, terry callier, beach boys, yardbirds, todd rundgren, urge overkill, papas fucking fritas, tony fucking goddess, elliott smith, the ramones, blondie, television, ween, black crowes, aerosmith (drugs era), deep purple, alice cooper, bettye lavette, sam phillips (the female singer), ike & tina, the faces, the small faces, a girl called eddy, carole king, the carpenters, wings, sloan, big star, black sabbath, x, peter wolf/j. giels, cars, modern lovers, del fuegos, jayhawks, replacements, sly & the family stone, matthew sweet, velvet crush, lilys, red red meat, radiohead, zztop (the old shit), queens of the stone age, jackie deshannon, dusty springfield, any phil spector stuff, elivs costello & the attractions, mott the hoople, ian hunter, hunter-ronson, free, james gang, xtc, the jam, soft boys, jon brion, rockpile, nick lowe, dave edmunds, funkadelic, johnny cash, new pornographers, neko case, the sadies, devendra banhart, the band, jackson browne, the byrds, flaming lips, flamin' groovies, iggy & the stooges, nirvana, harry nilsson, negro problem, wilco, ramsey lewis, del shannon, the shins, gillian welch, the who, t. rex, supergrass, brendan benson, walter egan, kingston trio, decembrists, minus 5, robert plant & strange sensation, royal gun, regal musket, black keys, animal collective, marshall crenshaw, john cunningham, pixies, frank black, the roots, monkees, michael nesmith, lou rawls, cannonball adderly, gene clark, cotton mather, Go! team, dirtbombs, the action, AC/DC, Captiol years, traveling wilburys, gbv, faster pussycat, rainbow, van morrison, kings of leon, screaming trees, super furry animals, del amitri, nellie mckaye, the police, randy newman, grant lee buffalo, so many others...
for the love of pete: goodfellas, bull durham, match point, crimes & misdemeanors, slap shot, godfather I and II, harold & maude, jerry macguire, fast times at ridgemont high, caddyshack, back to school, rushmore, life aquatic, annie hall, manhattan, the passenger, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, taxi driver, midnight run, bachelor party, house of yes, home for the holidays, animal house, blues brothers, fletch, fargo, blood simple, rocky, bang the drum slowly, hannah & her sisters, hotel rwanda, bad lieutenant, true romance, revenge of the nerds, the graduate, river's edge, porky's III
SCTV, Larry Sanders Show, Letterman (epsecially the NBC years), Seinfeld, The Office (BBC version), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos, The Wire, Emeril Live, the Office (NBC version), Gilmore Girls, Baseball Tonight, ESPN News, Showtime at the Apollo
Sometimes a Great Notion, The Stranger, Confederacy of Dunces, Post Office, American Tabloid, Hell to Pay, Father & Son, Ray Davies X-Ray, Crazy From the Heat (David Lee Roth autobiography), The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Slaughterhouse Five, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
my dad, Pat., Sr.