music, theatre, writing a little, reading a lot, singing, piano, drawing, photography, traveling, politics, old movies, maryland crab cakes, swimming in lakes, sleepy afternoons, healthy arguments, inappropriate laughter, sipping wine, swigging scotch, my mates near and far, my warm green living room, continuing to take chances, being glad I did
anyone with an opinion and an amplifier
The Weakerthans, Descendents, Jets to Brazil, Jawbreaker, Ramones, Samiam, Piebald, Pixies, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Dillinger Four, Good Riddance, The Clash, The Stooges, Cock Sparrer, Turbonegro, Social Distortion, The Explosion, The Misfits, 7 Seconds, Bad Religion, Propagandhi, Black Sabbath, Kid Dynamite, Lifetime, Archers of Loaf, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Modest Mouse, Wilco, Drag The River, Sonic Youth, Onelinedrawing, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Smiths, The Cure, The Who, The Police, The Anniversary, Gameface, Refused, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Buckley, Billy Bragg, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Will Oldham, Damien Jurado, Joanna Newsom, Regina Spektor, Buju Banton, Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt, Beethoven, Mahler, Liszt, Kabalevsky, bagpipes, harmonicas, a really good pianist, a bass that can make the floor shake, Gene Krupa and every modern drum solo since, my mom when she plunks away at the guitar and sings Joan Baez, that guy who plays the saxophone late at night in the middle of washington square park, anyone with an honest voice
The Shining, The Godfather, On the Waterfront, Rebel Without a Cause, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Elizabeth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Waiting for Guffman, everything Hitchcock
The Simpsons, The Twilight Zone, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, The Tudors, BBC World News, A&E, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Sun Also Rises, Catch-22, The Catcher in the Rye, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Tropic of Cancer, To The Lighthouse, The Stranger, Story of the Eye, Giovanni's Room, Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, Still Life with Woodpecker, The Subterraneans, Tao Te Ching / Plays: Shakespeare, Aristophanes, Moliere, Wilde, Sartre, Stoppard, Beckett, Wedekind, Miller, Kushner, McNally, McDonagh / Poetry: Rumi, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop / Comics: Powers, The Invisibles, Alan Moore
New York City. My Mum.