garlic growing. bike riding. reading. accordion. writing. traveling. drawing. screenprinting. homeopathy. crossword. owls. keeping the brain wet. flea markets. gahdening. learning about tattooing. graphic d. camping. swap meets. strange and beautiful people. kayaking. thinking I can sing. samson. inside jokes. sushi. ogilve home perm. relying on my vocabulary to fleece people into thinking i have the smarts what god gave the geese. tanker boots. pool. steel cut oats. asian markets. trying to be a better me than i was a year ago. samosas. rad vegan grocery stores (in the words of the RZA,"An ox is strong as a mufucka and all he eat is mufuckin' grass"). nothing beats a life free of drama and full of uncontainable laughter..
fiddlers, banjoistas, and mandolineers
ROGER MILLER, Pine Hill Haints, old maritime music, the Anglin Brothers, Will Oldham, Drunken Boat, Criminal Damage, Beirut, Devil Makes Three, Manu Chao, Scatha / Sedition, Yann Tiersen, Iron & Wine,
the Can Kickers, Papercuts, Camera Obscura, RjD2, Funeral Oration, Lost World, Liliput, Dirt, Gogol Bordello, The Gits, Beltones, Joan Jett, Gorilla Biscuits, Minor Threat, Good Clean Fun, The Cure, Mutiny, the Pogues, MF Doom, Sadat X, O.C., Lord Finesse,
Tom Waits, Freestyle Fellowship, Stevie Wonder, The Restarts, Op Ivy, Snuggle, and elementary Heavy D & the Boyz.
Raising Arizona, Down by Law, Stranger Than Paradise, anything where Crispin Glover screams like a girl, Takeshi Kitano's Kikujiro and Fireworks,
The Burbs, Trick or Treat, Kamikaze Girls, The Big Lebowski, Battle Royale, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Story of Ricky-Oh, Lost in Translation, Old Boy, Bottle Rocket, PCU, Braveheart, Chungking Express, Rumblefish,
City of Lost Children, Brazil, Delicatessen, Putney Swope,
True Romance turns me into a runny fucking pisspot every time, The Butcher Boy,
Happiness of the Katakuris, They Live, Rushmore, Brain Candy, The River's Edge, Serial Mom, Beautiful Girls, Ironweed, and Tom Waits' Big Time.
so happy without it.
Farley Mowat.
Anton Chekhov. John Irving, as long as I don't have to talk to him. Robbins.
Sedaris. Vonnegut. Bukowski. Murakami. Hesse. Melville. Proulx. Marquez. Palahniuk. Oscar Wilde. seriously. You Can't Win by Jack Black. True History of the Kelly Gang. His Dark Materials. Cloud Atlas.
master ace with a biz markie puppet. and my mom. She's recently discovered Justin Timberlake and has taken to exclaiming, oh, he looks just like you! The initial bolstered confidence rapidly escalated into genuine alarm at how perhaps, at the age of 27, things like this shouldn't make my day quite so easily.