Music, the South, beer, vino, cooking, surfing, indie movies or band documentaries, funny stuff (see Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, or Wes Anderson), 1969-1977, songwriting, any source of water, great storytelling, and road trips.
Ethan Johns or David Rawlings. By far the best album producers in the last 30 years. Look them up if you don't know!!!! whateverlife.com
It's important. That's all that needs to be said. I write my own stuff, but it's rubbish. My top bands/musicians in no particular order; The Allman Brothers, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Band, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Bocephus, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Wilco, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, The Guess Who, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Drive-By Truckers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Old 97's, Gillian Welch, Old Crow Medicine Show, YMSB, CSNY, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Tom Waits, Leadbelly, Clapton, R.L. Burnside, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Kings of Leon, The Doors, The Beatles, The Black Keys, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, The Beastie Boys, Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Mofro, Shooter Jennings, Phish, Widespread Panic, Tift Merrit, A Fine Frenzy, Fiona Apple, Aretha Franklin, Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan, Alexi Murdoch, Ted Nugent, The Eagles, Scott Miller and the Commonwealth, Whitestarr, Dirty Sweet, Cattywompus, Dead End Parking, Josh Ritter, Quincy Coleman, Xavier Rudd, JBT, the Beautiful Girls, Jack Jonson, my old man, my uncle ...I could go on for hours.
My top five today are: Almost Famous, Smokey and the Bandit, High Fidelity, The Big Lebowski, and Bull Durham. Oh, and any Wes Anderson film. And of course Cool Hand Luke. Can't forget about Animal House and Fletch...okay, I'll stop. Oh, the Jerk! Wedding Crashers: a Sunday tradition.
Not much time for TV unless the Heels, Panthers, or the Braves are on! And any college football game, most importantly KSU or UGA.
My top five books are 1. High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby 2. A Movable Feast by Hemingway 3. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean 4. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 5.Chronicles Vol 1 by Bob Dylan. And anything by Chuck Klosterman! Bukowski is a bad ass too.
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