I spend my time working on new goals, learning, and exploring new things. Some of those are running (LA marathon 03!), hiking, scuba diving (PADI Rescue Diver), wake boarding, paintball, and mountain biking. I'm really lucky to have great friends that are passionate about each of these, so I always have someone to go out with.
Plain Jane Rachel Jones
In LA KCRW is the best source... morning becomes eclectic is great. others I love: MUSE, N.E.R.D., Killers, The Flaming Lips, the KBC, Arctic Monkeys, Shins, Cake, Clap your hands say yeah yeah, Silversun Pickups, Lily Allen, The Pipettes, Locksley, Snow Patrol, Damien Rice, smoother folky like Jack Johnson, Dave Mathews, and Ben Harper. KROQ is good occasionally, but it went downhill when Y107 shortened the playlists so much you hear the same crap every 15 minutes.
I like old school blues like Muddy Waters, Etta James, as well as some newer trend setters like the jazzy Saint Germaine. Newer rock and roll blues guys like George Thorogood & The Destroyers are great driving music.
Motown could possibly be the greatest period of music since Bethoven... I wish I was alive then, but my parents lucked out on that one.
Classic rock is good for camping and getting dirty. There isn't much 50's and 60's music I don't like.... I've sung bass in a doo-wop group, so I'm well versed in those classics. Reggae and Jimmy Buffett are perfect for going out on dive boats. Nothing like the rocking of the boat, with an island in the distance to make a nice backdrop for some Jimmy.
Old School, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, The Game (I want to work for CRS), Gladiator, Aliens, Matrix, Tombstone, the Usual Suspects, Swingers, Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Dogma (lets just say everything Kevin Smith), Good fellas, Casino, Something About Mary, The Princess bride. M Night Shamalama-ding-dong. Wes Anderson movies; Steve Z, R Tennenbaums, Rushmore.
Dexter, Rome, Weeds, 24, Niptuck, South Park, West Wing, The Daily Show, Battlestar, Conan O'Brien.
reading the Dexter books right now. TY Jim, awesome XMAS present. (now finished!) You know me well. Read Angels and Demons...would have made a better movie the davinci code. davinci... great book, just ask EVERYONE ON THE PLANET... they have all read it. Currently reading Richard Dawkins "the god delusion". No suprises in this one.
The last book I read was actually 4 or 5 books an old professor I had at Cal State Northridge reccomended on rhetorical discourse. I'm a big fan of researching why people believe the things they do, and how the mind works. But thats pretty dry stuff, so I'll just name the books and move on: Carl sagans "The Demon Haunted World", Schicks, "Critical Thinking for a New Age" and a few others that escape me as I type this.
In NO particular order:
Ferris Bueller, Jack Bauer, and Hank Hill.