Politics, policy, soccer, yoga, playing in the dirt, reading, talking to strangers on the el and good company
Friends and foes alike. And Michael Bolton.
Feist, Emiliana Torrini, Doves, Arcade Fire, The Secret Machines, Wolf Parade, Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Ani DiFranco, The Boy Least Likely To, Sondre Lerche, Arctic Monkeys, Califone, The Elected, Beirut, Elliott Smith, Tori Amos, Atmosphere, The Decemberists, Bebel Gilberto, Yo La Tengo, M. Ward, Cat Stevens, Le Tigre, CocoRosie, Moving Units, Jim Guthrie, Beth Orton, Erlend Oye, Cat Power, Rosa Passos, Denali, Cocteau Twins, Ladytron, Hot Chip, Lamb, Sneaker Pimps, Phoenix, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Badly Drawn Boy, Muse, Grandaddy, Fiona Apple, Sufjan Stevens, Lovage, Broken Social Scene, Devendra Banhart, Billie Holiday, Kaki King, Erykah Badu, Van Hunt, Bjork, Wilco, Rage Against the Machine, Dead Prez, The Coup, Ilya, Nick Drake, Citizen Cope, Frou Frou, Goldfrapp, The Faint, Scissor Sisters, Iz, Zero 7, Carla Bruni, Ed Harcourt
The Wedding Singer, American History X, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Harold and Maude, Big Fish, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring, Secretary
The Office, Family Guy, American Dad and Lost
The History of Love, Life of Pi, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, She's Come Undone, A Clockwork Orange, Catch-22, The Prophet, The Alchemist, Race Matters, Profit Over People, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, To Kill a Mockingbird, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dead Man Walking, anything by Jean-Paul Sartre