I've hiked River-south in the Grand Canyon. In the winter I play hockey, in the summer I play water polo.
People with a good story to tell. I don't wanna hear about your Gucci handbag collection or your toy poodle...unless you have pictures of it being hit by a car.
Early bands' records, they tend to be better.
B-movies/exploitation films. Spaghetti westerns.
M*A*S*H, The Carol Burnett Show, Hawaii Five-O, etc., etc..
Books about corporate corruption, e.g. The Smartest Guys in the Room or Barbarians at the Gate; I also like books about the Kennedy assassination--my uncle wrote one in the late 60s called Six Seconds in Dallas.
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