singing anywhere, music, iPod, bass, sunshine, sunroofs, dancin', pick-up basketball games, driving trucks, camping, capsizing canoe's, capsizing sunfish sailboats and not losing the center board, snowboarding, gardening, black and white photo booths, pinball machines, the santa cruz boardwalk, live jazz downtown, live music in general, chanel perfume, hoop earrings, hair bleach, big ass versace shades, fine red wines, sunday mornings & doing crossword puzzles on the porch, chamomile, green, and peppermint tea, frequenting sushi bars, shopping for exceptional bedding, california, democrats, and citrine stones.
radiohead, miles davis, cat stevens, crosby stills nash, neil young, ray charles, bjork, neutral milk hotel, DeVotchka, nick drake, the faint, le tigre, blonde redhead, beirut, tori amos, billie holiday, ella, etta james, mazzy star, the cure, snoop dogg, jay-z & his hot girlfriend, david bowie, gillespie, otis redding, barry white, stevie wonder, marvin gaye, damien and bob marley, sex pistols, ravi shankar, creedence clearwater revival, moonraker, jeff buckley, janis joplin, the beatles, velvet underground, nico, neko case, elliot smith, david gray, van morrison (astral weeks, album in particular), blood sweat and tears, brad mehldau, phil collins, yeah yeah yeahs, ryan adams, tracy chapman, bonnie raitt, the exciters, dusty springfield, devendra banhart, gnarls barkley, jem, frou frou, springsteen, etc.
HERO, Pulp Fiction, Blow, Amelie, The Secret Garden, Fight Club, American Beauty, Pi, Igby Goes Down, Closer, The Pianist, LOTR, what dreams may come, Wet Hot American Summer, royal tenenbaums, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Sin City, Ray, to kill a mockingbird, the Departed
Travels With Charley (Steinbeck), Corregidora (gayl jones), Survivor (chuck p), the Forbidden Door (marilee heyer, children's book), the black mountain poets (esp. charles olson), Me Talk Pretty One Day (david sedaris), Blood Meridian (Cormac Mccarthy), The Color Purple (Alice Walker), Venus as a Boy (luke sutherland from mogwai!), emily dickinson, the poetry of robert frost (he puts new england into words, helped homesickness in california when i missed my first fall and winter), Great Expectations, angela carter, poems of Rumi, khalil gibran (mmm), Sylvia Plath's diary, Shopgirl (a novella by Steve Martin (yes, him)) On the road, dharma bums, "Go," Charles Bukowski, etc. http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/327981
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