Finding out of the way bars and hearing unknown bands, playing pool very poorly, ending up in random places like Idaho (note: the only reason that I chose Idaho is because "Idaho? No, YOUdaho!" never gets old), hitting up diners at 4am for pancakes, reading the paper with a good cup of coffee in the morning, drinking scotch while painting and listening to Mr. BB King sing about havin the blues, learning new things like what they call those little things on the end of your shoelaces, goofing off in front of complete strangers, watching the Lakers play, cooking for friends, summer barbeques... good wholesome fun, mostly.
"Rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists."
The Pixies, The Clash, The Specials, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, AC/DC, Tenacious D, Violent Femmes, Eric McFadden Trio, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Elton John, Rolling Stones, Queen, Bowie, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Mountain Con, Idiot Pilot, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Thelonius Monk, BB King, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Fischerspooner, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Uberzone, George Clinton, James Brown, Massive Attack, Outkast, The Roots, Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets, Bus Driver, Jurassic 5, Ozomatli, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Toots and the Maytals, Sublime, Red Hot Chili Peppers... the list goes on and on. Suffice to say, I like music.
The Sting, Three Amigos, The Great Escape, Animal House, High Fidelity, Almost Famous, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dirty Harry, Swingers, Trainspotting, Evil Dead, Bubba Ho-Tep, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, The Blues Brothers, 1941, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho, Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Sunset Boulevard, Office Space, Goonies, American Movie, Grizzly Man, Trekkies, Fog of War, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Thank You for Smoking, Clerks, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Hudsucker Proxy, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Grosse Pointe Blank, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Shaun of the Dead, Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Holy Grail, Jaws, and the Indiana Jones Trilogy.
Arrested Development, Conan, Letterman, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Insomniac, Futurama, Iron Chef, Good Eats, 30 Rock, The Office, My Name is Earl, Chappelle's Show, Da Ali G Show, Penn and Teller: Bullshit, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
"On The Road" - Jack Kerouac, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" - Charles Bukowski, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - Robert M. Pirsig, "The Song of the Dodo" - David Quammen, "Sometimes A Great Notion" - Ken Kesey, "If Chins Could Kill" - Bruce Campbell, any "Calvin and Hobbes" collection, "America (The Book)" - Jon Stewart, "Slaughterhouse Five" - Kurt Vonnegut, "Pure Drivel" - Steve Martin, "Nothing's Sacred" - Lewis Black, "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories" - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Sun Also Rises" - Ernest Hemmingway, "Hitchhiker's Guide" - Douglas Adams, "The Catcher in the Rye" - J.D. Salinger, "Another Roadside Attraction" - Tom Robbins
Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Jon Stewart, Bruce Campbell, Anthony Bourdain and Joe Piasentin.