Gardening, singing, cutting firewood, cooking, mountain biking, drums, reading books with my kid, road trips, cross country skiing, baseball.
Fellow spiritual wanderers who like conversation (spoken and sung.) People who love down-home and amped-up cosmic American music.
R&B, soul, country (old and new), 70s and 60s music. Check out Billy Eli's music at http://www.billyeli.com. Gram Parsons, Emmy Lou Harris, the Byrds, Roger McGuinn, Clarence White, Marty Stuart, Ricky Skaggs, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, the Eagles, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Peter Rowan, the Grateful Dead, Gary Allan, Hank Snow, Connie Smith, George Jones, Johnny Cash, the Band, Shannon McNally, Joan Osborne, Dusty Springfield, Janis Joplin, Sheryl Crow, Shelby Lynne, Alison Moorer, Steve Earle, Bob Dylan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bobby Womack, Sam Cooke, Malford Milligan, Otis Redding, Bonnie Raitt, Etta James, Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Tower of Power, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Yolanda Adams, John Legend, Ashley Cleveland, Nichole Nordeman, the Beatles, the Stones, Led Zeppelin, Humble Pie, Steve Marriott, Tommy Bolin, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cobham, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Audioslave, Eric Johnson.
The Usual Suspects, Dead of Night, any 50s musical that my kid has turned me onto, The Lake House, Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed, Lonely are the Brave, Play Misty for Me, Charley Varrick, Once Upon a Time in the West, That Obscure Object of Desire, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Young Frankenstein, The Manchurian Candidate, The Passenger, The Best Years of Our Lives, Whale Rider, Silent Running, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Eiger Sanction, The Parallax View, The Candidate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
Discovery Channel, ESPN, PBS (Nova, Mexico-One Plate at a Time, and Frontline), Sopranos, Six Feet Under, TCM, AMC.
Texas (by Fehrenbach), Team of Rivals, The Seven Story Mountain, The Myth of Freedom, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, The Wisdom of No Escape, Planets in Transit, Saturn (A New Look at an Old Devil), almost any cookbook or travel book.
Pema Chodron, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, The Dalai Lama, Thomas Merton, Anna Akhmatova, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Tal, Muhammad Ali, Tim Mara, Tom Landry, Don Meredith, Maureen Dowd, Molly Ivins, Ann Richards, Jose Capablanca, Garry Kasparov, Tito, Andrei Voznesensky, Yesenin, William Carlos Williams, Roberto Clemente, Bob Gibson, Henry Aaron, Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Luis Tiant, Goose Gossage, Willie Mays, John Lennon, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Lafayette, Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, Robert LaFollette, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, Eamon McEnaney, Al McGuire, Maurice Lucas, Bill Walton, World B. Free, Earl Monroe, Walt Frazier, Bill Bradley, Dave DeBusschere, Phil Jackson, Mark Price, Akeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley, Steve Nash, Badger Bob Johnson, Chris Chelios, Bobby Orr, Jim Brown, Vince Lombardi, Paul Brown, Lou Groza, Steve Carlton, Bill James, Eli Manning, Vince Young, Pedro Martinez, Sandy Koufax, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Harry Carson, Carl Banks, Bill Parcells, Lawrence Taylor, Phil Simms, John Bonham, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Bill Bruford, Elvis Presley, Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, my mother, my daughter.