Catching fish, bird hunting, hiking, biking, reading, listening to weird music, playing a little x-box. Trying to get back into my pile of musical interests. I have a million different hobbies. Too many to keep up with sometimes.
Old friends and associates. Anyone interesting. People who don't mind when I disappear for a couple months here and there... People who do stuff like this:
The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, David Grisman, Old and in the Way, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Ween, Leftover Salmon, Gov't Mule, Yonder Mountain String Band, Widespread Panic, Oysterhead, Les Claypool's various acts (... and the Feraless Flying Frog Brigade, and the Holy Mackeral, and Primus.), DeadWeight, Camper Van Beethoven, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Alice in Chains, Tool, Slipknot, Perfect Circle, Metallica (BEFORE they started sucking), Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ben Harper, Warren Haynes, Willie Nelson, Tony Rice, Richard Thompson, Robert Johnson, Greg Brown, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Ani Defranco, Gillian Welsh, Allison Krause, Chris Thomas King, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Toots and the Maytals, Sublime, Long Beach Dub All-Stars, O.A.R., Portishead, Massive Attack, Beastie Boys, George Clinton, Snoop Dogg, N.E.R.D., South Park Mexicans, The Dukes of Hubbard, Trampled By Turtles, Charlie Parr, ATMOSPHERE, The Hoot Owls, The Fractals, LOW, The Front Porch Swingin' Liquor Pigs, The Big Wu, The Black Labels, Wookiefoot, The Tim Malloys... I could keep this up all day folks.
Office Space, Dodgeball, The Last Samuri, FAHRENHEIT 9/11, Trainspotting, Fight Club, Dead Man, Things to Do In Denver When You're Dead, 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, Very Bad Things, Twintown, Snatch; Lock, Stock, and Two Smokin' Barrels; 28 Days Later, The Stand, The LOTR, Old Westerns lately...
"See No Evil" by Robert Baer the ex-CIA guy. "One Man's Wilderness," that book about Dick Proneke who built his little log cabin in the Alaskan bush and rarely came out. Not sounding too bad these days. "Hard Times" by Studs Turkel.
Dick Proneke, John Wayne, Hunter S. Thompson, Jerry Garcia, Jesus, Layne Staley, Gus Hall, Ernesto "Che" Guevarra, The Sandinistas, Bill Wilson, Edward R. Murrow, William Blake, Bertrand Russell, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson, H.D. Thorou, Jack Wilson, Robert Service, Neil Casssidy, Ken Kesey, William Wallace, and Jr. "Bob" Dobbs!!!