taking photographs, acting, seeing live music, listening to old music, people watching, long drives with the windows down, good hugs, birds, playing hide and seek with my cat Guthrie, laughing til my belly hurts, being on water, my family, documentaries, smoking cigarettes after big meals...the simple things
Henry Thomas, Blind Willie McTell, Mance Lipscomb, Josh White, Lightnin Hopkins, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Sippie Wallace, early Bonnie Raitt, Memphis Jug Band, Doc Boggs, Moon Mullican, Bob Wills, Hank Williams Sr., Bob Dylan, The Band, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Willis Alan Ramsey, Malcom Holcomb, Gram Parsons, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Tim O'Brien, Darrel Scott, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, John Hartford, Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams, Justin Earle, The Little Willies, Jason Moon Wilkins, Wilco, Iron & Wine & Calexico, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Jimmy Cliff, Toots and the Maytalls, Desmond Dekker, The Pogues, and on...
The Princess Bride, Very Long Engagement, Better Off Dead, Waiting for Guffman, Fletch, In America, The Big Lebowski, Catch and Release, Sense and Sensibility, The Proposition, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, westerns, documentaries...
Mr. Show, The Daily Show, The Simpsons, Project Runway
Jane Austen at present
Bonnie Raitt, Gered Mankowitz, DeFord Bailey, Doc Watson, Garrison Keillor, Townes Van Zandt, my parents