Making music, listening to music, being around music, fucking around, having fun, drinking, smoking, running, coaching baseball, exercising, screaming, singing, fighting, and doing anything to make this life worth living.
Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr, Adam Clayton, Christopher Guest, The Coen Brothers, Kurt Cobain right before he shot himself, Lou Reed, Mickey Mantle, Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Billy Corgan, Brian Eno, Miles Davis, Conan O'Brien, Lou Gehrig, Michael Chabon, Eddie George, Archie Griffin, Ghandi, Carl Jung, Jean Piaget, Sigmund Freud, Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler, Carlos D, Sam Fogarino, Arnold Palmer, Hank Aaron, Jay-Z, Peter Berg, Elvis, Joe Dimaggio, Thelonious Monk, Johnathan Lethem, Einstein, Jesse Malin, Wes Anderson, Steven Morrissey, Muhammad Ali, Dane Cook, Hunter S. Thompson, Ryan Adams, Steven Hawking, Mozart, Davey Havoc, Jon Brion, JD Salinger, Pete Rose, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hitler, Richard Russo, Shane MacGowan, Neil Young, The Rock, The Beatles, MLK, Bob Dylan, Bruce Lee, Sandy Koufax, Kanye West, Winston Churchill, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong, Nolan Ryan, Teddy Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe.....ummm, damn...I'll add more as I think of it...oh yeah, and Falco. And if you don't know who these people are, go look them up...hopefully you'll be glad you did.
Way too many to list, but here's some:
AFI, Al Green, Alkaline Trio, Andrew Bird, Andrew WK, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, At the Drive-In, Autolux, Band of Horses, The Beatles, Beck, Black Heart Procession, The Black Keys, Bloc Party, Blur, Bob Dylan, Broken Social Scene, BRMC, Bruce Springsteen, Built to Spill, Cake, Clutch, Cold War Kids, Coltrane, Damien Rice, The Darkness, Deadstring Brothers, Death Cab for Cutie, Death From Above 1979, The Decemberists, Dismemberment Plan, Doves, Dredg, Eagles of Death Metal, Earlimart, Echo & the Bunnymen, Editors, Eels, Elbow, Elefant, Explosions in the Sky, Failure, Far, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, The Hold Steady, Hope is Noise, Hum, Iggy, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Jay-Z, Jenny Lewis, Jesse Malin, Josh Ritter, Joy Division, Kanye West, The Killers, LCD Soundsystem, Longwave, The Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Mastodon, MC5, Menomena, Mew, Miles Davis, Mutemath, The National, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Of Montreal, Pearl Jam, The Pixies, The Pogues, The Postal Service, The Postman Syndrome, Priestess, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Refused, The Rolling Stones, Rogue Wave, Ryan Adams, Sea Wolf, Secret Machines, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Silversun Pickups, The Sleepy Jackson, Smashing Pumpkins, Sponge, Stellastar, The Stills, The Strokes, Suicide, Tegan and Sara, Tool, Traffic, TV on the Radio, U2, Velvet Underground, The Walkmen, The Who, Wilco, William Elliott Whitmore, Zwan ...BLAH There's so much more.
Invader Zim, Stella, Flight of the Conchords, The Simpsons, The Family Guy, The Job, Deadwood, Firefly, South Park, Freaks and Geeks, The Wire, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, P&T: Bullshit, Human Giant, Northern Exposure, MacGyver, Pete & Pete, Passions, Futurama, Big Love, Upright Citizens Brigade, Arrested Development, Undeclared, X-Files....Thank God for DVD's
"Catcher In The Rye" JD Salinger
Molly Whalen Demuth