Lazing on a Sunday afternoon, Architecture, Dancing (Swing, Salsa, whatever), Vintage VW buses, Rockabilly shows, Spending the weekend on the beach, Going bowling with a woman who knows how to keep score, Completly ignoring what everyone around me is doing and thinking, and laughing at Carlos Mencia jokes with my bro.
Anyone with a mind of their own.
Tom Waits, X, Big Sandy, White Stripes, Ani DiFranco, Kung Pao Chickens, Jack Johnson, Hazel, Black Eyed Peas, Bad Religion, Franz Ferdinand, the Bellfuries, Sonny Rollins, Fiona Apple, John Coltrane, English Beat, PJ Harvey
Miller's Crossing, Roadside Prophets, Chinatown, Coffee and Cigarettes, Swingers, 1960s Spy Films, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Strictly Ballroom, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, almost anything written by Alan Rudolph, David Mamet or Woody Allen, City Lights, The Glass Key, Royal Tenenbaums, random 70s flicks, Collateral, Shall We Dance (Japanese version), and Duck Soup
Entourage, Arrested Development(RIP), Chappelle's Show(RIP), late night reruns of Taxi
all short stories and prose by Raymond Carver, some Ayn Rand, some Italo Calvino, King's "the Stand", Clinton's "My Life", Phil Jackson's "Last Season", Neal Cassady's letters to Kerouac, Weiss'"Many Lives, Many Masters"
Tom Waits, my brother Michael, and my buddy Ron