Playing music, making music, talking about music with people who know at least a little bit about what they are talking about, Tivo, my PowerMac, becoming independently wealthy, skiing, motorcycles, movies, suicide girls, food, restaurants, eating really great food, baseball, football, NCAA basketball, Vegas ahhh Vegas!
Music:
U2, Springsteen, Bloc Party, The Doves, Ryan Adams, Neil Young, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Franz Ferdinand, Kings of Leon, Oceansize, Placebo, Fingers Cut Mega Machine, Oliver Future, Death Cab, Matthew West, Dylan, Merle Haggard, The Damnwells, Jessie Malin, Josh Rouse, The Shore, Oasis, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Wilderness, Ron Sexsmith, WILCO, Pete Yorn, Aqualung, Mellowdrone, Kathleen Edwards, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Mingus, Monk, Charlie Parker, Rashann Roland Kirk, Foo Fighters, GnR, The Stones, The Beatles, Hendrix, The Who, Marvin Gaye, Barry White, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Arcade Fire, Doris Henson, Sun Volt, Aerosmith, The Allman Bros., DMB, Bowie, The Jayhawks, James Brown, Zepplin, Peter Gabriel, The Police, Prince, Tom Petty, ZZ Top, AC/DC, The Black Crows, Big Stone City, Beastie Boys, Ben Folds, Beth Orton, Billy Joel, Sinatra, Dinosaur Jr., Fiction Plane, Rocco DeLuca, Guided By Voices, Huey Lewis and the News, Johnny Cash, Paul Westerberg, Keane, Mos Def, Hi Tek, Blackstar, Common, My Morning Jacket, Handsome Boy Modeling School, The Roots, Digable Planets, Kiss, Maxwell, My Vitriol, Neil Finn, Nick Drake, Outkast, QOTSA, Radiohead, Lynard Skynard, Screaming Trees, RATM, Seal, The Thorns, Soundgarden, Talking Heads, Travis, Urban Dance Squad, ON, Van Halen, Wayne, The D, The Hold Steady, MIDLAKE,Sloan, Big Business, Youth Group, Mew, Brothers and Sisters, Convoy, Delta Spirit, The National, Besnard Lakes, Silversun Pickups, Colour, Cold War Kids, Dear and the Headlights, The Manchester Orchestra, Bird and Bee, Summer Hymns, Mastadon, The Broken West, Stereophonics, The Long Winters, The Black Angels, The Decemberists, Jeremy Enigk, Old Crow Medicine Show, Phoenix, Movies, The Rosebuds, Murs, Joe Purdy, Drive-By Truckers, Tapes 'n Tapes, The Format, Matthew Sweet, Birdmonster, Van Morrison, The Replacements, The Sword, Josh Ritter, Priestess, Built to Spill, Band of Horses, Limbeck, Marah, Har Mar Superstar, Bill Withers.
Movies:
Anything John Hughes, LOTR, High Fidelity, Band of Brothers, Hunt for Red October, Star Wars (4,5,6), Office Space, Super Troopers, Dumb and Dumber, Harlod and Kumar, American Movie, Wet Hot American Summer, Tommy Boy, Fisher King, All Pink Panther, What About Bob, Groundhog's Day, Die Hard, X-men, Almost Famous, The Doors, Tron, Swiss Family Robinson, Forest Gump, Castaway, Indiana Jones, The Big Lebowski, Pirates of the Caribean, Field of Dreams, Kill Bil 1 & 2, Crimson Tide, Gladiator, The Professional, Casino, Fifth Element, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors, JFK, Garden State, Hudson Hawk, Dances With Wolves, City Slickers, The Truman Show, Apollo 13, Spinal Tap, American Beauty, Rainman, Stargate, ELF, The Incredibles, Rocky, Toy Story, Superman, Back to the Future...just to name a few.
Television:
PTI, The Shield, Cooks Tour, Six Feet Under, Entourage, Friends, Seinfeld, MASH, Nightcourt, Sportsnight, The Sopranos, Good Eats, How I Met Your Mother, Perfect Strangers, Three's Company, SCRUBS, Grey's Anatomy, Boston Common, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The F Word (BBC), Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (BBC), Good Eats, Iron Chef, Lost, Friday Night Lights, 30 Rock, Studio 60, Heros, Dinner for Five, The Office, Family Guy, THE DEADLIEST CATCH!!!
Books:
A Peoples History of the United States, To Kill A Mockingbird, C.S. Lewis Books, LOTR, Kurt Vonnegut, The Hitmen, 1984, Last Of the Mohicans, Animal Farm, A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius, Falling Through The Earth.
