Repetitive music, bicycles, lazy cats, good films, prairie grass, walking around in Manhattan without a plan, driving around Jamaica with a plan.
Laurie Gunst, Bob Andy, Meghan Daum, Faith Saley, Elizabeth Kolbert, John Paul Jones, Tunde Williams.
see above (I'm talking about serious vampfests), but specifically including rock steady, rockers, reggae (Barry Brown, Linval Thompson, Sugar Minott, Johnny Clarke, Willi Williams), vintage NYC salsa (Willie Colon, Larry Harlow, Ray Barretto), afrobeat, and too many others to list right now . . . Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, Dizzy Reece, Sonny Rollins . . . MC5, Buzzcocks, XTC, and The Damned . . . African Brothers International.
Blockade (the documentary), The Long Goodbye, Tears of the Black Tiger, Broadway Danny Rose, Ghost World, Brother From Another Planet, Crumb, Howl's Moving Castle, This is Spinal Tap, The Harder They Come, Metropolis, Blast of Silence.
Sesame Street, Land of the Lost, American Experience, Jackass, Nova, The Office.
Born Fi Dead, The Illustrated Collector's Guide to Led Zeppelin, Hi Fidelity, Darkness at Noon, Quality of Life Report.
Edward Blyden, Ernie Chambers, Charles David Keeling, Blacque Jacques Shellacque, Tony Allen, Mom . . .