WRITING. Running. Bicycles. Film. Punctuation (I'm serious!). BOOKS. Late nights. Kayaks. Early mornings (especially those involving kayaks). Cooking. MUSIC. COFFEE. Climbing (my new love).
Wes Anderson, Zach Braff, Dave Eggers, Tom Robbins, Freud, Jung, Janet Malcolm, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien, Miles Davis, Steven Pinker, Noam Chomsky, Ben Folds, Hunter S. Thompson, Bill Murray, Nigel Godrich...
An absolutely random and in no way exhaustive list: Refused, Moneen, Ben Folds Five, Radiohead, Jeff Buckely, Marvin Gaye, Sigur Ros, Choke, KillSwitchEngage, The Jackson Five, Ben Harper, Miles Davis, Weezer (blue and pinkerton), I miss Chronicbreaker (I do love the late night, really I do), Queen, The Wooden Stars, James Brown (early stuff), Death Cab for Cutie, Fourtet, Andrew Byrd, Stevie Wonder, The Mars Volta, Archive, Stars, Snailhouse, Simon and Garfunkel, Elton John, Rufus Wainright, Sarah Slean, Jamie Cullum, Pelican, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Hawksley Workman, Prince...etc.
Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Wes Anderson. Garden State. Lost in Translation. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Almost Famous. High Fidelity. Good Will Hunting. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Igby Goes Down, Romeo and Juliet (Claire Danes), Last Tango in Paris, Dancer in the Dark, Dumb and Dumber, Photosynthesis, Being John Malkovich, Misled Youth, City of God...
If I had a television I'd watch Scrubs, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Heroes.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, How We Are Hungry, You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers; Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins; Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, In the Freud Archives - Janet Malcolm; The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker; Miles Davis Autobiography - Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe; The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien; The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis; The Sun Aslo Rises - Ernest Hemingway; Old Mortality, Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott; The Collected Works of Freud - Sigmund Freud; The Bible - ed. God; Education of the Senses - Peter Gay; The Tempest - Shakespeare; Ariel - Sylvia Plath; The Diviners - Margaret Laurence; The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fizgerald; The New Yorker, The Walrus (magazines) - various; McSweeney's - ed. Dave Eggers et al; Joshua Then and Now - Mordecai Richler; The American - Henry James...