Old-time music, clawhammer banjo, acoustic guitar, family, travel, books, eBay, vintage instruments, politics (proud LIBERAL).Collapse the wavefunction!
In no particular order: Old-time music, country blues, clawhammer banjo, Gypsy jazz, Mississippi John Hurt, Bob Dylan, Django Reinhardt, The Clash, Doc Watson, Joseph Spence, Holy Modal Rounders, Michael Hurley, Gillian Welch, The Gourds, Flaming Lips, Camper Van Beethoven, Talking Heads, early Meat Puppets, The Shins, Lucinda Williams, Roscoe Holcomb, The Smiths, Dock Boggs, Tommy Jarrell, early Rolling Stones, Silver Jews, Steve Earle, Will Oldham, Guided by Voices, John Fahey, Bob Marley, Jimmie Rodgers, Carter Family, Riley Puckett, X, Frank Black, Belle and Sebastian, M. Ward, Wilco, Magnetic Fields, Sebadoh, Replacements, Minutemen, Tchavolo Schmitt, Pavement, Wedding Present, Bill Frisell, Bad Livers, Go-Betweens, Blind Blake, David Bromberg, Roy Harvey, John Hartford, Stephane Grappelli, Joanna Newsom, Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Mingus, Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66.
Hardly ever.
Down and Out in Paris and London, White Noise, In Persuasion Nation, The Corrections, World's End, Neuromancer, The Crying of Lot 49, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Postcards, Travels in Hyperreality, Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Language in Thought and Action, The Virgin Suicides, The Great Unraveling, As She Climbed Across the Table, The Sopranos , Rootie Kazootie, The Devil's Dream, Me Talk Pretty One Day, What's Not To Love?, Crum, America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Ninteenth Century, Valis, Galatea 2.2, The Quincunx, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, The Rachel Papers
Authors: George Saunders, T.C. Boyle, Herge, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky, Goscinny and Uderzo, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, John Le Carre, Elmore Leonard, Jared Diamond, Alan Warner, E. Annie Proulx, Milan Kundera, Tom Robbins, J.D. Salinger, Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, Barry Yourgrau, Richard Powers, Russell Banks, Jonathan Franzen