.. Veggie life, news junkie, guitar stuff, reading, cycling, soccer, baseball, basketball.
Any or all names on this page. Or anyone who returns my calls.
"Tex Ritter. Tex Ritter? And that's when I woke up."
... British Invasion, post-punk, reggae/dub, alt-country, ambient, delta blues, Motown, post-bop jazz, classical. Latest tunes from Tara Slone, James Bryan, Michael Brook, Cowboy Junkies, Neil Young, GBV, Johnette Napolitano, Richard Lloyd, Tom Verlaine, Son Volt, David Sylvian, Tortoise, Richard Thompson, World Party, Pernice Bros, Robert Pollard, Doug Gillard, Mark Kozelek, Pat Dinizio, Freakwater, Frank Black, Daniel Lanois, John Cale, The Sea and Cake, Ralph Towner, John Abercrombie.
"This is the hour of Lead -- Remembered, if outlived -- As freezing persons recollect the Snow -- First chill, then stupor, then the letting go." - Will Oldham
"Art is just a dog on my porch." - Neil Young
............... By Bergman, Fellini, Frears, Gilliam, Herzog, Kieslowski, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Lynch, Malle, Rohmer, Sayles, Tavernier, Truffaut, Wenders, Yimou. Anything with Bogie, Sir Sean, Bill or Emma T.
Daily Show, Letterman, Sarah Silverman, Billable Hours, The Jane Show, TCM, History, Discovery, PBS, news mags (Fox? No thanks!)
Chomsky, Lapham, Moore; Boyle, Carey, Doyle, Grass, Hiaasen, Hornby, Johnston, LeCarre, Ludlum, MacLeod, McCormack, Proulx, Pynchon, Richler, Rushdie, Vonnegut; Shakespeare and other classics; bios/non-fiction; Atlantic, Harper's, Mother Jones, Nation, SI, Uncut.
The usual suspects, of course. HH Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, John Lennon, Pierre Trudeau, Tommy Douglas, Terry Fox, David Suzuki, Jane Jacobs, Stephen Lewis, Steve Nash.
And people who are groovy and good to everyone else. Strive to be the person your dog thinks you are.