Road trips, photography, film (the kind you watch, and the kind you shoot with), writing, hiking, martial arts, big trees, philosophical discussions, getting laughed at by my friends, spending time with my family, playing with my niece, watching my niece throw up formula on my couch, a nice glass of wine. Not in that order.
New friends, old friends, and Audrey Hepburn. She's on here somewhere.
Floyd, Regina Spector, My Morning Jacket, Zero 7, The Negro Problem (lead singer is black, don't hate me), BASSNECTAR, Belle & Sebastien, Cold Play, the Stones, Rilo Kiley, Garden State Soundtrack, Kula Shaker, ELP, Beatles, Beach Boys, The Decembrists, The Doors.
Local music is better than the MTV/VH1 smear.
www.theturtleproject.com
www.stewsongs.com
www.lindasargent.com
Powder, Braveheart, Garden State, Good Will Hunting, Into The Wild, Apocalypse Now Redux, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sideways, Citizen Kane, Rushmore, American Beauty, Requiem for a Dream, Waking Life, Rent, Hero (better than Crouching Tiger), Breakfast at Tiffany's, Pride and Prejudice, The Matrix, The Children of Men, The Thin Red Line.
HBO is better at everything than Hollywood. Real storytelling.I don't have cable. I'm happier this way.
On The Road by Jack Kerouac. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Hemmingway. Contact by Carl Sagan. Kubla Khan by Coleridge. The last page of The Great Gatsby is writergasmic. Only recently read The Catcher in the Rye and totally got it. Loved it.
Bottle Rocket Hearts. Buy it. Everyone. Seriously.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. Lights me on fire. Also Jimi Hendrix for The Star Spangled Banner that he played at Woodstock. Funny how relevant both of those are to modern events.