Music, cooking, the idiosyncrasies of human beings, movies, spending time outdoors, reading, skipping, dragon boating, writing, laughing, drinking...
Oh, and anyone who appreciates the art of skipping.
The Hold Steady, Stars, The Clientele, Flaming Lips, Lucksmiths, Pogues, The Wedding Present, Luna, Moonbabies, Portastatic, Go Betweens, Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins, The Thermals, Iron & Wine, Jens Lekman, Viva Voce, Minutemen, The Dears, Mos Def, Pernice Brothers, Camera Obscura, Firehose, The Long Blondes, The Shins, The Decemberists, Built to Spill, Belle & Sebastian, Destroyer, dios malos, GBV, Editors.
The Queen, City of God, Little Miss Sunshine, Igby Goes Down, Best in Show, Camille Claudel, Amelie, Royal Tennanbaums, The Year My Voice Broke, Once Were Warriors, Harlan County USA.
Heroes, Ugly Betty, Daily Show, No Reservations, The Colbert Report, Moyers on America, America's Test Kitchen, The Office, 30 Rock, L&0 classic
I wanted to read 52 books in 52 weeks in 2006, but I fell short. Here's a list of what I did read:
1. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
2. The Ice Cream Maker – Subir Chowdhury
3. Kissing in Manhattan – David Schickler
4. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
5. The Guiness Book of Me – Stephen Church
6. Cork Boat – John Pollack
7. Getting Things Done – Dave Allen
8. State of War : the secret history of the CIA and the
Bush administration - James Risen
9. You Don’t Have to Live Here - Natasha Radojcic
10. Paradise Travel - Jorge Franco
11. Don't try this at home: culinary catastrophes from the world's greatest chefs - edited by Kimberly Witherspoon and Andrew Friedman.
12. Wickett’s Remedy – Myla Goldberg
13. Too Much Too Late – Marc Spitz
14. Runaway – Alice Monro
15. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
16. The Language of Baklava – Diana Abu-Jaber
17. When the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka
18. The good works of Ayela Linde : a novel in stories
- Charlotte Forbes
19. Voyage Along the Horizon - Javier Marias
20. City of Fallen Angels – Jonathan Berendt
21. I’m Not the New Me – Wendy McClure
22. Fortress of Solitude – Jonathan Lethem
23. The Cook’s Tour – Anthony Bourdain
24. Heat – Bill Buford
25. The Cheese Monkeys – Chip Kidd
26. Blankets – Craig Thompson
27. Out - Natsuo Kirino
28. Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerers
29. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
30. Candy Freak, Steve Almond
31. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Laila Lalami
Hiro Nakamura