guitar, writing, games, friends, family.
trouble makers. smart alecs. unpredictable people. anyone who can teach me a thing or two about making good bbq. any musician who speaks in tongues through his or her instrument. any writer who dreads writer's block and rejoices in surmounting it. any painter who smiles upon a blank canvas. anyone, really, who feels the compelling urge to create. the righteously awesome.
blind boys of alabama and tool, rage against the machine and ted nugent, peter tosh and joe satriani, house techno and all kinds of polka, golden earring and .38 special and blue oyster cult vs. jesus lizard and black flag and the dicks, ween and neil diamond, nels cline vs. b. b. king, jimi hendrix vs. sid vicious, return to forever and mahavishnu orchestra vs. the partridge family, jumping bomb girls, miles davis, rhcp, pj harvey, the clash, the who, toots, stones, replacements, zep, johnny cash, gang of four, wilco, public enemy, sab, ramones, kool keith, soundgarden, wu-tang clan, tom waits, ac/dc, the new pornographers, james brown. anything with undeniable hooks or undeniable grooves or stuttered funk or dirty noise or pensive, delicate phrasing or crushing riffs or sounds that defy easy classification or well-articulated angst or joy.
repo man, dirty work, sexy beast, maximum overdrive, dirty harry, akira, cool hand luke, taxi driver, the survivors, rappin', the warriors, the king of comedy, cheech and chong's next movie, the shining, brazil, the taking of pelham 1-2-3, bad taste, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, eastwood westerns (esp. the spaghettis), lifetime network stalker flicks, terrible low-budget monster movies they show on the sci-fi channel over the weekend (like, say, "dinocroc"), my dinner with andre.
mostly syndicated shit, game shows, baseball, food network, vh1 classic. some particulars: old married ... with children, sanford and son, all in the family, law and order, early nineties snl, three stooges, price is right, dawson feud, shatner trek.
the things they carried, a farewell to arms, moby-dick, huck finn, faulkner, kafka, dennis lehane, james "lean" burke, weber's big book of grilling