I like lots of things, really. Design, photography, independent film, visual arts and theatre ...Travel, maps, architecture, new urbanism, cool furniture, especially lamps ...Hiking, skiing, camping, soccer, tennis, racquetball, creative loafing ...Progressive politics, capitol rallies, energy policy, exposing idiocy and bigotry in government and trying not to get depressed by the sheer magnitude of it.
Beastie Boys, Belle and Sebastian, Boards of Canada, Tracy Chapman, Coldplay, Iris DeMent, Dream Academy, EBTG, Alejandro Escovedo, Neil Finn, Flaming Lips, Peter Gabriel, Gilberto Gil, Nanci Griffith, Gypsy Kings, Herbaliser, Jean Michel Jarre, Katell Keineg, Kruder+Dorfmeister, Karsh Kale, Luna, Aimee Mann, Kathy McCarty, MC Solaar, Midnight Oil, Morcheeba, Morphine, Múm, New Order, Ken Nordine, OMD, Radiohead, Radio Tarifa, Simple Minds, Sloan, Stars, Sundays, Tears For Fears, TMBG, Suzanne Vega
Aberdeen, Almost Famous, Amelie, The Apartment, Baraka, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Bend It Like Beckham, Blade Runner, Bleu/Blanc/Rouge, Blue In The Face, The Cruise, Donnie Darko, Double Happiness, Duel, Ghost World, Koyaanisqatsi, Manny and Lo, Men With Guns, My Son The Fanatic, Night On Earth, North By Northwest, The Princess and The Warrior, Roger and Me, Rushmore, Secrets and Lies, The Sweet Hereafter, Touching The Void, UHF, You Can Count On Me
Adult Swim, Chef!, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Fawlty Towers, Freaks And Geeks, Frontline, The Good Life (Good Neighbors), Lonely Planet (Globe Trekker), Lost, Six Feet Under, Sports Night, The West Wing, Whose Line? (UK), The Young Ones
Adams: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Alexander: A Pattern Language, Brand: How Buildings Learn, The Journals of Dan Eldon, Exupery: Wind Sand and Stars, Tibor Kalman Perverse Optimist, Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies, Lightman: Einstein's Dreams, Spiegelman: Maus, Tufte: Visual Explanations, Watterson: Calvin and Hobbs, Wurman: Information Anxiety, Yoshimoto: Kitchen
Douglas Adams, Patrice Adcroft, Stephen Biko, Jimmy Carter, Mario Cuomo, Jane Elliott, Benjamin Franklin, Gandhi, Andy Goldsworthy, Steve Jobs, Barbara Jordan, Tibor Kalman, JFK, RFK, MLK, Robert Krulwich, Maya Lin, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, James Randi, Ann Richards, Sally Ride, Carl Sagan, Samantha Smith, Lao Tzu, Paul Wellstone, and my closest mentors -- teachers, friends, and family alike.