Music, cooking, pocket billiards, bowling, literature (gratuitously speaking,) the finer points of squirrel etiquette, and last but most certainly not least, fulfilling the lifestyle of a jaded, romanticized personality archetype.
Influences: R.E.M.; Bob Dylan; Spider John Koerner; Son House; Robert Johnson; The Urban Hillbilly Quartet, et al.Favorite Bands/Artists (in stream-of-consciousness order): all those listed above; Martin Devaney; The Get Up Johns; High on Stress; Joanna James; Mike Gunther and his Restless Souls; Charlie Parr; Lonesome Dan and the Crush Collision Trio; "the best church band in the bar," that House of Mercy band; Bob McCreedy; Wilco; Thunder in the Valley; John Ewing; Dan Israel and the Cultivators; Pocahontas County; Dana Thompson and the North Coast; Ben Weaver;DISCLAIMER: there are many more (mosly local) favorites of mine not listed above, purely because my consciousness has temporarily shut down. i feel as though i'm offending those as-yet-unnamed favorites (though they have no idea who i am anyhow,) so i'm offering this plea for clemency until my consciousness reawakens.
Top Five/Six, All-Time, Favorite Movies (in no particular order,) are as follows:High Fidelity; Grosse Point Blank; So I Married an Axe Murderer; The Godfather; Highlander (for purely sentimental reasons, i promise...) The Big Lebowski.Honorary Mentions (maybe they'd sneak into the Top Ten...)i can't think of any at the moment...