family, comaraderie, music (making and listening to), reading, movies, walking, driving, traveling (I don't get to do it anymore, but it still interests me), sitting, watching (without binoculars)…
Laurel and Hardy and Jack Kerouac… but they're dead. So until then…
…Afghan Whigs, Ambulance Ltd., American Analog Set, Arab Strap, Arctic Monkeys, Autolux, Bauhaus, Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, Bizet, BRMC, Black Eyed Snakes, Blanche, Bowery Electric, Cab Calloway, Calla, Camera Obscura, Common, Creatures, Crippled Black Phoenix, the Cure, Curve, Dandy Warhols, David J, De La Soul, Dead Can Dance, Dean Martin, Delgados, Digable Planets, DJ Krush, Doves, Echo and the Bunnymen, Elbow, Explosions in the Sky, the For Carnation, Sinatra, Ganger, Ginger Ale, Gomez, Grandaddy, Hayden, Hentchmen, Interpol, Jazz Butcher, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jim O'Rourke, Johnny Cash, Kim Novak, Lambchop, Love and Rockets, Low, Luna, Madness, Magnetic Fields, S Malkmus & the Jicks, Massive Attack, Mercury Rev, Malcolm Middleton, Mighty Lemon Drops, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Morphine, Morrissey, Mos Def, Muggs, the National, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, New Model Army, Nitzer Ebb, Part Chimp, Pavement, Pharcyde, Piano Magic, Pinback, Pogues, Iggy Pop, Psychedelic Furs, PiL, Pulp, Ratt, Ride, Sisters of Mercy, Sixteen Horsepower, Slint, Slowdive, Smiths, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, Spiritualized®, Spoon, Stone Roses, Stooges, the The, Tindersticks, Tones On Tail, Travis, Tribe Called Quest, Tricky, Twilight Sad, Velvet Underground, Verve, Voxtrot, Tom Waits, Walkmen, White Stripes, Whitey, the Who, Willie Nelson, Wire, ZZ Top…
Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, W.C. Fields, Chaplin's City Lights and the Kid. A Hard Days Night. Fight Club. Seven. Boogie Nights. Magnolia. Sling Blade. Unstrung Heroes. Amelie. Being John Malkovich. Evil Dead. The Professional. Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Down By Law.
junk.
Jack Kerouac. David Sedaris. Raymond Carver. Short stories mainly. I admit I don't quite have the time or attention span to get through "novels," but I don't think you need 200+ pages to get your point across either.