Central Park, bourbon Manhattans straight up and nice and cold, The Criterion Collection, tennis, baseball playoffs, exploring New York City, Rockport Mass., beaches, coffee, writing, swimming, hiking with Roz, 3-D stuff, astronomy, sushi, football games, long drives, re-discovering old friends, retro kitchen stuff, the NASA space program, NY Times crosswords, mornings
shouldn't it be "whom"?
The Beatles, B-52's, Ben Folds, Cake, Amy Winehouse, Radiohead, The Clash, Weezer, White Stripes, Rufus, Violent Femmes, Death Cab For Cutie (thanks SG!), Fountains of Wayne, Stones, Suzanne Vega, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, Jane's Addiction, Michelle Shocked (before she went crazy), Ultra Lounge, Peggy Lee, Dean Martin, classical - especially the Russians and Eastern Europeans.
The Bad News Bears (the original), The Seventh Seal, A Hard Day's Night, Pan's Labyrinth, 9 to 5. Any Fellini, Kurosawa, Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Renoir, Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson or Powell & Pressburger.
Comedy Central, Discovery, GSN, IFC, TCM, reruns of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Salinger's Nine Stories, anything by Sarah Vowell, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Flannery O'Connor, Capote, E.L. Konigsberg or David Sedaris, Winesburg Ohio, Lolita, Out of the Dust, Eggers, Hornby, the New Yorker, the Onion, McSweeney's, my old Encyclopedias that I still refer to all the time, pop -up books
My Mom and my Dad. Anyone who's not afraid to stand up for what they believe in. Stephanie Weir. Veterinarians. Tanner Boyle.