writing; filmmaking; drinking beer and eating hors d'ouerves at outside cafes in the summertime, watching people go by on the sidewalk
Gogol Bordello, Beirut, DeVotchka, Wilco, Gomez, Bright Eyes, the Decemberists, Neko Case, Lavender Diamond, Steve Earle, Leonard Cohen, Ani DiFranco, Jack Johnson, Robin & Linda Williams, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, They Might Be Giants, Barenaked Ladies, Flogging Molly, Tish Hinojosa, DJ Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Belle & Sebastian, Mazzy Star, Sneakerpimps, Nick Drake, Magnetic Fields, Moby, Coldplay, Portishead, Nickel Creek, Alice Deejay, The Arcade Fire, Ozomatli, Ferry Corsten, The Smiths, Interpol, Spearhead, rdj2, Leftfield, Cake, the Beatles, Miles Davis, Violent Femmes, the Crystal Method, Crash Test Dummies, Astral Projection, M.I.A., Goa Gil, Green Day, Vira Bila a Kale, the Verve, the Grateful Dead, Cornershop, Django Reinhardt, the Dixie Chicks, Sean Paul, The Cure, The Misfits, Gorillaz, Bob Dylan, sixties-era Bee Gees, Cowboy Junkies, Groove Armada, Joni Mitchell, Beth Orton, the Darkness, St Germain, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Dido, Jem, Sublime, Voxtrot, Beirut. Any recommendations, send em my way, I am eager!
Coen Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Marx Brothers, Eddie Izzard, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Christopher Guest, Monty Python, and my beloved Austin-ites Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater.Lately: Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, Dreamgirls, Borat!, Little Miss Sunshine, Half NelsonAlways: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Man Who Wasn't There, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Bonnie & Clyde, Natural Born Killers, The Third Man, The Edukators, The Proposition, The Seventh Seal, The Salton Sea, Thirteen, Metropolis, Casablanca, Harvey, The Philadelphia Story, Roman Holiday, The Birds, Pi, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Exorcist, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, The Cuckoo, True Stories, Everything is Illuminated, Clerks, Clerks 2, Brazil, Dogville, Lost in Translation, I Heart Huckabees, Capote, Brokeback Mountain, Crash, Citizen Kane, Winged Migration, March of the Penguins, Triplets of Belleville, Army of Darkness, Blue Velvet, Ed Wood, My Dinner with Andre, Walk the Line, Baraka, Coffee & Cigarettes, Rent, Lost in La Mancha (oh it's heartbreaking!), The Jerk, Love Actually, Say Anything... and, um, Thunder at a Playhouse
M*A*S*H, The Simpsons, Arrested Development, Firefly, Mr. Show, Futurama, House, Lost, Scrubs, Slings & Arrows(It's all about this guy.)
Just about anything by Tom Robbins and Paolo Coehlo -- especially Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Jitterbug Perfume, The Alchemist, and Veronika Decides to Die. Poetry-wise, Rumi, Richard Brautigan, Allen Ginsberg and assorted Beat poets, Saul Williams and assorted slam poets that I've only heard a little of, like Shane Koyczan. Keats, Shelley, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot. I miss reading poetry on the London underground.....if only, if only in America.... Forever beloved: Dharma Bums, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence, Catch-22, Like Water for Chocolate, Walden, Chimera, Steppenwolf, The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, Slaughterhouse-5, Cat's Cradle, Frankenstein, Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ Of late, finished Best American Travel Stories, edited by Jamaica Kincaid; Evasion, by CrimethInc, (quite eye- and mind-opening), and Teacher Man by Frank McCourt which I completely fell in love with and now I am compelled to read the rest of his life so Angela's Ashes is next on my list.Currently reading An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks, and Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey -- both of which remind me why everyone should read books during every spare second in their day
The Dixie Chicks, Thomas Jefferson, Jon Stewart, Ira Glass, Eugene Hutz, Al Gore, Rick Blunt