If I'm able to help those around me who I love and admire realize their potential while staying true to themselves, then it's been a damn good day.
Music, traveling the world, and transcending the status quo...
Artists, thinkers and activists who take great risks, reject the herd mentality and explode expectations.
I adore anyone with a twisted and super sharp sense of humor too...
The Gaslight Anthem, Fair To Midland, Hot Water Music, Crime In Stereo, Small Brown Bike, Poison Idea, Verse, Joy Division, Husker Du, Arcwelder, Serj Tankian, Soulsavers, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Able Baker Fox, Big Black, Killing Joke, Dalek, The Morlocks, Bauhaus, and 1000s of others...
Paranoid Park, The Lives Of Others, Children of Men, Dig!, Amores Perros, 24-Hour Party People, Badder Santa, The Big Lebowski, The Seven Samurai, Mysterious Skin, Drugstore Cowboy, Lone Star, Control, and so many others that it's pointless to try to list them all here....
Frontline's "Bush's War"...damning and amazing. HBO's THE WIRE was the greatest show on earth; extremely bummed it's over. Three Sheets, No Reservations, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, City Confidential, 48 Hours/Forensic Files, Cold Case Files, etc etc
any type of great sports writing, go figure...
you know who you are