Outdoor markets, walking in nature, beautiful finishes and interesting vinyl collections are tops on my list today. Cooking with friends is always a bonus.
Bright shiny humans w/ that elusive special sauce... Yum.
Brian Eno, David Bowie, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Marc Bolan, T.Rex, Marvin Gaye, Beach Boys, Sparks, Sparkle Horse, Beachwood Sparks, All Night Radio, Magazine, Television Personalities, Television, Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, Elliot Smith, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Pretenders, Lilys, Spiritualized, Swell Maps, Nikki Sudden, Epic Sountracks, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Dungen, Slade, Julian Cope, Robyn Hitchcock, Curtis Mayfield, Teenage Fanclub, My Bloody Valentine, Built To Spill, Eels, Pavement, Roxy Music, Jimi, Bootsy, Parliment, Funkadelic, NY Dolls, Velvet Underground, Small Faces, Kinks, Killers, Spiders, Who, Wilco, Dylan, Donovan, Mr. George Harrison, the Beatles, the Stones (Sly, Rolling and Roses) both Elvis-s, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Kevin Ayers (and his banana obsession), Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine, Soft Boys, Matching Mole, Creation, Kaleidoscope, Fairfield Parlour, Equals, Love, Devo, Dirtbombs, Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers, Blondie, Blonde Redhead, Guitar Wolf, Flat Duo Jets, Mingus, Monk, Ultravox!, Neu!, Can, Faust, Scott Walker, Screaming Lord Sutch, Shocking Blue, 10cc, the Sleepy Jackson, the Sweet, the Jam, the Damned, the Band, Supergrass, Chuck Berry, Air, Silver Apples, Apples In Sereo, Goldfrapp, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, Wire, Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel and countless others.
There are far too many film favorites to list, so here are names of a few people in the biz who I can't get enough of/from: Jem Cohen, Grant Gee, Francois Girard, both Andersons (Paul Thomas and Wes), all the Coppolas, Penn, Jonze, Sinise, Malkovitch, Tarantino, Argento, Bertolucci, Allen, Macy, Sales, Waters, Jarmusch, Cammell, Downey Sr., Monty Python, Sellars, Watts, Boyle, Thurman, Portman, Kidman, Robbins, Eastwood, McQueen with MacGraw, Poitier with Anderson and Newman with Redford... Again, there are countless others.
Iconoclasts & Iron Chef
Right now I'm reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott and Kings of Infinite Space by James Hynes.