Running. Lazing. Watching loads of movies. Reading. Avoiding. Scrabbling. Generally useless stuff. I like a fierce debate every now and then.
Potatoes and poptarts. Someone or someones different, lively, interesting, and, above all, funny. Deadpan, slapstick, puns, sarcasm, goofy, witty, whatever your schtick of choice. I'm always looking for someone who can make me laugh.
In no particular order - Neko Case, Lucinda Williams, Kinks, Willie Wisely, Jonathan Richman, Johnny Cash, New Pornographers, Rilo Kiley, Elvis Costello, Reindeer Section, Violent Femmes, Postal Service, White Stripes, Edith Piaff, Wilco, Old 97's, Cat Power, Bonnie Prince Billy, Lambchop, The Be Good Tanyas, Billie Holiday, Death Cab for Cutie, Fiona Apple, Heartless Bastards, and so on
Movies that have stood the test of time for me: What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Three Kings - Monty Python and the Holy Grail - The Philadelphia Story (Hepburn and Grant) - Harold and Maude - 12 Monkeys - Bringing Up Baby - Fiddler on the Roof
Flight of the Concords, Arrested Development, Father Ted, The Office (British and American), Meet the Press, Thirty Rock, Friday Night Lights, Strangers with Candy, Season 1 and 2 of Battlestar Gallactica, The Wire
Word Freaks by Stefan Fatsis; To Kill a Mockingbird; In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Phillipe Bourgois. The Road by Cormack McCarthy. John Adams by David McCullough.
Eleanor Roosevelt, John Adams, Gertrude Bell