Travel, especially train travel,(and by extension Cartography),Cooking,Eating what I've cooked,Meeting people from other countries,Singing at Gomeroke,Seeing and playing live music,Camping,Public transportation,Cool old things,Sunday Drives,Schoarma(Middle Eastern food from Holland)Minor League Baseball
Proper sessioners throughout the world! I have been fortunate enough to have been able to meet seven of my musical heroes:PJ Harvey,Ray Davies,Louden Wainwright III,Neko Case,Steve Wynn,Danny Stuart,and Albert Collins(R.I.P.)
The Dream Syndicate,Green on Red,Danny and Dusty,Oh Susanna,Nick Drake,Neil Diamond,Tom Jones ,Art Brut,Drive-By Truckers,The Bottle Rockets,The Kinks, The Rasberries,Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter,PJ Harvey,Gemma Ray Ritual,Unemployable Welsh Scum,ACDC,Neil Young,Split Lip Rayfield,Queen,Okkervil River,Rocky Votolato,Handsome Family,Southern Bitch,Slobberbone, The Drams,Venison,The Rain Parade,The Bad Brains, Geto Boys,Jon Dee Graham,True Believers,Love,Jon Langford,Robbie Fulks,Tarnation,Sister Rosetta Tharpe,Greg "It's your town now" Brown,Dumptruck,The Byrds,The 13th Floor Elevators,Thin White Rope,The Sadies,The Windbreakers,Alejandro Escovedo,Giant Sand,Guadal Canal Diary,Husker Du,Minutemen,Dinosaur Jr.,Buffalo Tom,Simon And Garfunkel,Syd Barrett,Neko Case,Uncle Tupelo,Naked Prey,The Clash,The Specials, Billie Holiday,Albert Collins,Bruce Haack,Miles Davis,Eric Dolphy,John Coltrane,The Lyres,The Miracle Workers,Old 97's,Donovan,Greg Sage and The Wipers,Agitpop,Faun Fables,Califone,Tenacious D,Gillian Welch and David Rawlings,Louden Wainwright III,Cheap Trick,True West, Doctor Eugene Chadbourne,Art Ensemble of Chicago,Gurf Morlix,Marty Robbins,Bill Kirchen,Dolly Parton,The Streets, Afghan Whigs,CCR,Zoogz Rift,The Ventures,The Meat Puppets, Van Halen(David Lee Roth era),Madness,Jason and The Nashville Scorchers,Ken Nordine's Word Jazz, Looking Glass,The Damned,Art Blakey,The Neatz,Anastasia Screamed,The Tar Babies,Ane Brun,Angelo Badalamenti,Tom Waits,John Prine,Blowfly,Kelly Hogan,Blackalicious, Nora O'Connor,Roy Harper,Matt Suggs,Clem Snide,Southern Culture on The Skids,The Reluctant Aquanauts,The Neanderthals,Los Straightjackets,Big Sandy,3 Inches of Blood,Great Lake Swimmers,Avett Brothers,Shakey(my Neil Young cover band),Roky Erickson,and The Drunk Drivers
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,Short Cuts, Ed Wood, Secret of Roan Inish,Inherit The Wind,To Kill a Mockingbird,Brother From Another Planet, Good Fellas,Antonia's Line,Cold Comfort Farm,The Cook,The Thief,His Wife,and Her Lover,The Days of Wine and Roses,The Lost Weekend,To Sir With Love,Beyond The Valley of The Dolls,Best in Show,Wizard of Oz,Do The Right Thing,Pulp Fiction,A Dirty Shame,Jungle Fever,The Player,Straight Story,American Movie,Mystery Train,Silence of The Lambs,Full Metal Jacket,Bend It Like Beckham,Monsoon Wedding,The Aristocrats,Near Dark,King Kong(Original and Remake),Dolomite,Shaun of The Dead,The Rutles, Haack(King of Techno),Kill Bill(Parts One and Two),Hard Eight,The Devil's Rejects,Love Liza,Happiness,Twin Town, Iron Giant,Pride and Prejudice(Kiera Knightly version), Wild At Heart,Night of The Hunter,Blair Witch Project, School of Rock,Ghost World,Chris Rock-Bring The Pain,American History X,The Kids Are Alright,Rude Boy,The Full Monty,The Professional,The Limey,Paths of Glory,Supersize Me,Twin Peaks-Fire Walk With Me,Home Movie, American Job,Shallow Grave,Train Spotting,Caddy Shack,Office Space,The Queen,The Player,Back To School,Of Mice and Men,Blood Simple,Gunfight at The O.K. Corral,High Noon,American Splendor,The Commitments,Natural Born Killers,Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer,Slaughterhouse Five,The Shining,Borat, The Station Agent, Rushmore,Millions,The Royal Tennenbaums,Batman(1966), Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory,Comedian,Psycho, Jaws,American Psycho,Close Encounters of The Third Kind, The Big Lebowski,The Night of The Living Dead,Gas,Food,Lodging, Amelie,Run Lola Run,Cemetery Man,Grizzly Man,Falling Down,Network,Big Night,Air Guitar Nation,Triplets of Belleville,Hot Fuzz,Ratatouille,Knocked Up,American Job, Home Movie
Homicide-Life on The Streets,Law and Orders,Jeeves and Wooster,All Creatures,Great,and Small, Six Feet Under, The Young and The Restless,American Idol,CSI,The Last Detective,Little Britain,My Name Is Earl,The Office(British and American),Sopranos,Huff,Twin Peaks,Gilmore Girls,Food Network,Murder One,On The Air,Gilligan's Island, Leave it to Beaver,Mash,Andy Griffith,The Brady Bunch,Batman(1960's),Alfred Hitchcock Presents,The Twilight Zone,Wonderfalls,Rosemary and Thyme, Our Gang/Little Rascals,Cheyenne(1955),All In The Family,Spaced,Life on Mars,Distant Shores,Dr. Whos,Gilligan's Island,The Wire,Weeds,Big Love
Population 1280,The Bluest Eye,Like Water For Chocolate,In The Electric Mist with Confederate Dead,James Herriot's Yorkshire,Daddy was a Numbers Runner,Cropper's Cabin,The Killer Inside Me, Joy of Cooking,Bartholemew and The Oobleck,Sassafrass,Cypress, and Indigo,Welcome to The Monkeyhouse
Kirk Rundstrom(RIP),Cathy Dethmers(High Noon Saloon)for giving us a home away from home,Mom and Dad,Danny Stuart(Green On Red), Jim Thompson