writing/recording/playing original music, reading great books, travelling, bartending, drinking, exercise, and how could i forget... sleep.
People who don't try to convince you how cool they are all the time.
way too many to mention, everything but pop country...primarily singer/songwriters, dylan, tom waits, counting crows, coldplay, dashboard confessionals, pearl jam, pretty much all grunge, the killers, taking back sunday, guster, homesick, dunston ashe, modest mouse, snow patrol, cake, soul coughing, phish, dead, zeppelin, floyd, and my biggest influence musically through my life has been Beethoven. Beethoven haunts me still.
lebowski, true romance, rounders, last of the mohicans, things to do in denver when youre dead, better off dead, weird science, say anything, dumb/dumer, tommy boy, 80's showtime porn, raising arizona, anything with booger in it, or cusack for that matter....and once again, lebowski...
The World According to Garp, Catcher in the Rye, A Prayer for Owen Meaney, Love in the Time of Cholera, Huck Finn, Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, Chronicles of Narnia, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Wind in the Willows, Mein Kampf, and... Picking up Trashy Women for Dummies.
Dan Sharkey, my dad.