Travel, music, frisbee, dogs
Everybody.
Check out my band! POST MERIDIAN Heavy Rotation: Guster, Coldplay, Gomez, Rusted Root, Gorillaz, and Imogen Heap among others.
FX-laden action, Wes Anderson, and documentaries. If you think that was the nerdiest movie list ever, than you're right.
Everybody is annoyed by TV in AK. But I have been caught renting Alias, Six Feet Under, and The L Word on DVD. Daily Show and Colbert Report rule. I've been a loyal "Late Show with David Letterman" fan since I was a wee lad.
Favorite Authors: Chuck Palahniuk, Nick Hornby, Neil Strauss, Charles Bukowski. Favorite Autobiographies: Broken Music (Sting), Brother Ray (Ray Charles), Rewrites (Neil Simon), Leonard Bernstein. I recently read Orwell's 1984 (that book is inCREDibly relevant right now), Factotum by Bukowski, Into the Wild, and Catch 22. Currently reading "The Healing Drum" about music and tradition in Mali, and "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac.
Innovative artists with distinct styles always impress me. Ray Charles, Julie Taymor, Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Sondheim, Henri Matisse, Tori Amos, Michael Gablicki and Rusted Root. And really, if it weren't for all the people out there teaching children, working in hospitals, managing banks, and selling fruit...I'd be screwed.