sharing good meals with good friends, learning, travelling, enjoying life, living deliberately, cooking, and of course books, music & films
gillian welch & david rawlings, tom waits, radiohead, pearl jam, clutch, johnny cash, bob dylan, weezer, bright eyes, coldplay, tori amos, tool, jump little children, modest mouse, neutral milk hotel, snow patrol, the white stripes, etc, etc, etc. currently though i'm hooked on making my own "mixed tapes" with the ole ipod.
the royal tenenbaums, dogma, tombstone, old school, three amegos, keeping the faith, breakfast at tiffany's, big fish, the hours, saved, coffee & cigarettes, lost in translation, and so on
i'd rather put in a movie, but i'm a big fan of cartoon network's adult swim, the simpsons, reno 911, dead like me, and twin peaks (of course those last two are only dvd watchable at this point). recently totally addicted to the food network. it is the new learning channel. [guilty pleasure = project runway . . .oh, yes, and sex & the city]
i like books more than films. many have influenced me. -- the bible; the giving tree (shel silverstein); my name is asher lev (chaim potok); my name is red (orhan pamuk); atonement (ian mcewan); orthodoxy (g.k. chesterton); the life of pi (yann martell). i like tolkein, william faulkner, flannery o'connor, albert camus, salman rushdie, thomas hardy, and your mom--i'll stop there.