Songwriting. Documentary filmmaking. Cooking. Eating. Drinking good wine and good beer while cooking and eating, with Aretha or Otis playing in the background. Photography. Travel. Watching the expression on people's face when I tell them I was in a hip-hop duo in LA.Waiting for my beautiful daughter to be born.
Those who rock...dude.
"From Cash to Clash to Grandmaster Flash!!!!!!" Bill Mallonee. Johnny Cash. Otis Redding. The Ramones. The Clash. Public Enemy. Grandmaster Flash. U2. John Coltrane. Ryan Adams. The Hardly Darlings. Talib Kweli. The Strokes. Over the Rhine (best album of last year) (Karin's voice is the closest I've heard to angels, truly). Matthew Ryan. John Lee Hooker. 16 Horsepower. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Daniel Lanois. Death Cab for Cutie. The Hold Steady (other best album of last year). Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. John Legend. The Magnetic Fields. Nick Cave. Rebirth Brass Band.Way too many to list.
Godfather 1-2, Roman Holiday, Wings of Desire, Rushmore, Cinema Paradiso, Blue, White, Lonesome Dove, True Romance, City Lights, In the Mood for Love, Sling Blade, Amores Perros, Born Into Brothels.
The Shield. Lost. Arrested Development (the late lamented). The Office. Six Feet Under. Deadwood. Curb Your Enthusiasm. American Idol (my wife makes me). Hall of Fame -- My So-Called Life, Sports Night.
Wow. Talk about too many to name. Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Faulkner, O'Connor. Books about God -- C. S. Lewis, Francis Schaeffer, Black Elk, Henri Nouwen, Frederick Buechner, Dallas Willard, Brian McLaren, Kathleen Norris, John Eldredge, Tony Campolo, Don Miller. Books of poems -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Wendell Berry, Everette Maddox, Dana Gioia. Books about the way things work -- Blink, the Tipping Point, Freakonomics, The Wisdom of Crowds. Anything by Ann Patchett, Nick Hornby or David James Duncan.
My father.