listening to (supporting) music (live or otherwise), reading, eating thai food and other tasty food, sleeping, playing and watching sports (STL Cardinals, Rams, Blues, PDX Blazers and University of Oregon to be specific), getting to together w/ friends (new and old), traveling, talking history and politics...
Bill Hicks (RIP Billy!), David Cross, Willie McGee, Henning Mankell, Thomas Jefferson, Attila Ambrus and people that I have lost touch with over the years.
I listen to a lot of different music and I go through many phases but this is what I have in my rotation as of late: Uncle Tupelo, Pavement (Stephen Malkmus), The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dungen, The Sea and Cake, Tortoise, Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt, Explosions in the Sky, Son Volt (Jay Farrar), My Morning Jacket, Blue Mountain (Cary Hudson), Wilco (Jeff Tweedy), Tom Brosseau, The Mountain Goats, Grant Lee Buffalo (Grant Lee Phillips), Dinosaur JR, We're From Japan...
Dial M for Murder, Be Here to Love Me, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Dig!, Platoon, Downfall, Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, Braveheart, Glory, City of God, What The Bleep Do We Know?,The Red Violin, The Usual Suspects, Touching the Void, Paradise Lost, I Heart (Love) Huckabees, The Life Aquatic, Clerks, The Big Lebowski, Run Ronnie Run, Coming to America, American Movie, Team America: World Police, Most Mel Brooks, Anything by the Broken Lizard crew, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, etcHere is a movie by my buddy Sarge, Injoy!
Arrested Development, The Office, The Wire, Flight of the Conchords,The Daily Show, Colbert Report, The Simpsons (the first 10 seasons or so), South Park, Futurama, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Entourage, Mr. Show, Sports and no NASCAR is not a sport!, The Amazing Race (I want to be on it...and win!), Intervention, Hells Kitchen (guilty pleasure), History Channel...
The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, Water Music by T.C. Boyle, The Living by Annie Dillard, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, The Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, The Kurt Wallander mystery series by Henning Mankell, The Kramer/Zondi mystery series by James McClure, The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro, American Scream (Bill Hicks biography) by Cynthia True, Miles (The Autobiography w/ Quincy Thorpe), Moneyball by Michael Lewis, How Soccer Explains the World (an unlikely theory of globalization) by Franklin Foer, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose, Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose, My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan, The Shankhill Butchers by Martin Dillon, Black Mass by Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill, Snowblind by Robert Saabbag, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein, Papillon by Henri Charrière...
Mom & Dad, Grandpa's & Granny, Ken Debevoise, Willie McGee , Bill Hicks The 2006 World Series Champion Cardinals Attila Ambrus