reading, taking 2 hour baths while reading,watching live music,chillin' with my dog,going on adventures with kilby,running from the long arm of the law,cooking,hanging out with trouble-makers,drinking beer.
morgan freeman- so that he can read me bedtime stories.and my boy, sam beam, down below him, so i can make him sing me lullabys on the nights that morgan freeman is unavailable..
iron and wine,band of horses,ray lamontagne, wilco,beatles,blonde
redhead,godspeed,gillian welch,BRIAN MARTIN,
mogwai,radiohead,bon iver,death cab,dylan,otis redding,beck,do make say think,
sigur ros,tom waits,yo la tengo,m.ward,nick drake,jimmy cousins trio,jose gonzalez,john prine,flaming lips,violent femmes, arcade fire,my old school homies-pearl jam,neutral milk hotel,sufjan stevens,mazzy star,explosions in the sky,elvis costello,cold war kids,instrumental beastie boys,james brown,
old crow medicine show,muse,ben harper,lucero,pixies,billie holiday,grace cathedral park,hank williams,el paso hot button,doves,my morning jacket,tool,etta james,the decemberists,pj harvey,ryan-NOT bryan-adams,pinback,cat power,
modest mouse,howlin'wolf,elliot smith,dirty three,elvis perkins,sam cooke,ween,neil young,granddaddy,jeff buckley,slowreader,portishead,any good old school motown,dirtfoot,the not lame songs of both james taylor and paul simon,rogue wave,the cure,broken social scene,damien rice,robert johnson,any of Chris Seidl's 2000 bands. and i'm kinda partial to violins and cellos...and pianos.
shawshank redemption,the jerk,the fisher king,life of brian,casino,good fellas,platoon,full metal jacket,stand by me,best in show,the science of sleep, life is beautiful,the big lebowski,raising arizona,noi the albino,reservoir dogs,one flew over the cuckoos nest,imagine,office space,little children,superbad,clockwork orange,amelia,million dollar baby,jesus' son,liscened to drive(i'm not ashamed of that either),leaving las vegas,caddyshack and any of the national lampoons with chevy chase as clark griswold,the pianist,donnie darko, fight club,the usual suspects,airplane,me,you,and everyone we know,the royal tenenbaums,rushmore,fear and loathing in las vegas,everything is illuminated
arrested development,the simpsons,futurama,family guy,daily show,colbert report,the sopranos,the office,it's always sunny in philadelphia,spaced,soccer, mr.show,reno 911, chapelle's show,and the wonder years-the best show ever-followed closely by space ghost.
pretty much anything by david sedaris,dave eggers,nick hornby,mary karr,dan chaon,kurt vonnegut,henry miller,john kennedy toole,house of leaves-because it broke my brain, daniel handler,ken kesey,brian strauss,leonard cohen,jr moehringer, charles bukowski,miranda july,jeneatte winterson, kerouac,bret easton ellis,hunter thompson,maya angelou, some chuck palahniuk paul auster,eliot pearlman,salinger,'and then we came to the end' by joshua ferris,tom robbins, john irving,amy hempel,shirley jackson,norman mailer,joyce carol oates, alan watts,jerry stahl,david foster wallace,jonathan safran foer,paul neilan(i think he only has apathy-and other small victories, but it's a great book)
my pops...and sammy davis jr.