anthropology, books, music, snowboarding, straight a's, movies, yoga, dogs - esp the evil twins (see photos), art, backpacking, vedic meditation, theater, women's rights, travel, simplifying, riding with the Dope Pedalers, africa, hats, powernaps, costume/disco birthday parties, koreatown for spas/food/karaoke, marlies dekkers for undies, tim hawkinson at LACMA, Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" at the Geffen, new restaurants and existential angst
Bad Religion, Tom Waits, Rancid, Elton John, Gram Parsons, Radiohead, Junior Boys, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Daft Punk, Dinosaur Jr, LCD, Depeche Mode, the Beatles and Stones and Bowie (duh.), the Smiths the Clash, GOTH, lowrider oldies, Public Enemy, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding etc - anything really, except world music, Cake, nu metal, "Pretty Woman" or the Righteous Bros. on the turntable: does it offend you, yeah? girl talk, old Talking Heads.
the first first Star Wars
i like books about Africa, also Jim Thompson, Truman Capote, Dashiell Hammett and crime novels in general, Thomas not Tom Wolfe, almost any 19th century Russian and also Nabokov; Zola, Vonnegut, Hardy, Maugham, Murakami, Neal Stephenson, Hemmingway, Steinbeck, Graham Greene and Tenessee Williams. Loved the newish Denis Johnson. Now reading some social psychology (Mistakes Were Made...) and some crime (Blonde Faith) at the same time.
BG, Charles Darwin, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter and the genius who made this hot air balloon: