Comedy, acting, television, film, baseball, golf, crime stories, dogs.
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, David Ortiz, Catherine Crier, Barbara Boxer,Christiane Amanpour, Jimmy Carter, Dominick Dunne, Madeleine Albright, Nancy Pelosi, Valerie Plame, Stephen King, Green Day, an honest mechanic.
My friends' music - including Barbara Cohen, Kristin Mooney, Jimmy Englund, Rob Shapiro, Amy Fisher. Green Day, Macy Gray, U2, REM, Lucinda Williams, Nelly, Amy Winehouse, Shane MacGowen, Imogene Heap, Beck, Nick Drake, Sugarland, Sheryl Crow, Earth Wind & Fire, The Thrills, Snow Patrol, Mary J. Blige, old R&B, and lots more...
Too many to list....love the ones that I get to work on!I just saw a great documentary called SONGBIRDS that was really powerful. Love Sundance or IFC documentaries.
Court TV, The Wire, The Class (R.I.P.), The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Sopranos, The Office, The Daily Show, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Law and Order (all of 'em), Lovespring International, The Class, Extras, Rome, My Name is Earl, Bad Girls, Grey's Anatomy, Reno 911!, The L Word, Without A Trace, Cold Case, American Idol, The First 48, Jakers! and Naruto (of course)and LOTS more.
Anything by my friends including Karen Rizzo, Leif Ueland, Lorna Landvik. Vonnegut and Don DeLillo's books, Under The Banner of Heaven, The Lovely Bones, White Oleander, Middlesex, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, 1984, The Handmaid's Tale,To Kill A Mockingbird, A Confederacy of Dunces, Beloved, Water for Elephants, Which Lie Did I Tell?, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, etc.
My father, Richard Flanagan. My mother, Winifred Flanagan, Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Harvey Milk, Rosa Parks, UN Relief workers, Human Rights Activists, etc.