Reading, thinking, rowing, writing, sailing, music, books, cooking, eating, ethnic dining , cheap wines, soft cheeses, indie pop, economic philosophy, pop sociology, the Apple Macintosh, foreign policy, economic policy, law and economics, equilibrium, New England, rural gawking, people watching, eavesdropping, riding and complaining about trains, complaining in general, frowning thoughtfully, long walks in the bad parts of town, other people's sneezes, complexion, skin-care products, citation formats, phenomenology, transformational grammar, algorithms, cement and concrete, painting, sculpture, modernist and super-postmoderist architecture, mild shocks, puddle surfaces, mushrooms, archaic plastic surgery, trepanation, abandoned tunnels, prison camps, Stanley Milgram, Italian fashion, structural engineering, material science, paper, inks, pens, world systems theory, post-rock, cults, wires and connectors, dictionaries, Wikipedia, entitlement spending, cities, legal codification, design, headphones, cheap records, tight pants, incoherent dreams, coffees, newspapers, chairs, not thinking.
People who have fun. Because I do not. Usually. Unfortunately.Also, heavy drinkers. Really. No, really.
Most recently:
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Blur, Fiery Furnaces, Make Up, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Pixies, Go! Team, OK Go, Oh No! Oh My!, Serge Gainsbourg, Blonde Redhead, Sebadoh, Exit Clov, PJ Harvey, The Mountain Goats, Red Krayola, The Aquarium, Pavement, Jame Lidell, Asobi Seksu, Okkervil River, Jim O'Rourke, Ryan Adams, The Kinks, Midlake, Gore Gore Girls, The Flakes, The Orangutones, Of Montreal, ESG, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Deerhoof, Stevie Wonder,
Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, Frederico Fellini
Arrested Development, Kids in the Hall, the State. Um, no TV...
The Little Book of Plagiarism, Don DeLillo, Thomas Phynchon, David Foster Wallace
Jim O'Rourke, Daddy Warbucks