Biking, kickboxing, reading just about anything but especially biographies and other nonfiction, Sunday crosswords, my cats, yoga, good grammar, local music, vintage styles especially 1920s + mod 1960s, thrift store shopping, baking cakes from scratch, vegetarian cooking, Ukranian Egg painting.
"Whom!" ARGH!!
The The, Curve, T.Rex, David Bowie, Throwing Muses, Air, Lansing-Dreiden, Foetus, KUOW's the Swing Years and Beyond, Johnny Cash, Burt Bacharach, Disposable Hereos of HipHoprisy, Neko Case, Afghan Whigs, Mudhoney, Brian Eno, Decepticon, The Buttersprites, Kaliningrad, Dusty Springfield, The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, Cal Tjader, Grassy Knoll, Amy Winehouse, Dionne Warwick, Broken Social Scene, The Darkness, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Chameleons UK, Roxy Music, Bow Wow Wow, Supergrass, Nick Heyward, Stone Roses, Redd Kross, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Morcheeba, Lamb, Elliott Smith, The Shins, Muse, Postal Service, The Carpenters, John Denver, The Buzzcocks, The Stranglers, the Damned, Suede, The Chills, Gang of Four, My Bloody Valentine, DJ Shadow, Plaid, Stereolab, Pizzicato Five, Goldfrapp, Lush.
Donnie Darko, The Sticky Fingers of Time, Velvet Goldmine, Rosemary's Baby, The Omen, The Excorcist, Bound, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Amelie, The River's Edge, Jacob's Ladder, Memento, The Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Dog Day Afternoon, The Graduate, Deliverance, The Filth and the Fury, Repo Man, Midnight Cowboy, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rock and Roll High School, Dig!, Sixteen Candles, Housekeeping, Serenity, Zodiac, In Cold Blood, The Virgin Suicides, any David Lynch, Joss Whedon, Coen Brothers, or Alfred Hitchcock.
Twin Peaks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Whose Line is it Anyway?, The Sopranos, PBS Biographies, Antiques Roadshow, Friday Night Videos, REV, Bombshelter Videos. Currently: Lost, and (collossal waste of time) America's Next Top Model.
The book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price - published in 1939, it is a incredible documentation of the effects of Western diet on health. Stiff and Spook by Mary Roach. Biographies: Colette - Secrets of the Flesh, Dorothy Parker - What Fresh Hell Is This? Others: science textbooks, science fiction (although not much lately), vintage pulp, Lynda Barry, Krakatoa-The Day the World Exploded, Into Thin Air, Eccentric Seattle, Ann Rule - The Stranger Beside Me, anything by Dorothy Parker or James Lileks. I pretty much prefer nonfiction over fiction, especially biographies and historical accounts. Currently on my nightstand: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories To Be Read With The Lights On, Vanishing Seattle by Clark Humphrey, The Elements of Style by Strunk & White (finally getting around to reading that one...)