literature, music, guitar, history, travel, politics, film, theater, technology, philosophy, tragedy, comedy, absurdity...
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Mostly listen to rock music: Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Doors, Ramones, Allman Bros., My Morning Jacket, the Faces ... Tom Waits, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Ryan Adams, Bob Dylan (Time out of Mind!) and Neil Young. Lots of old blues musicians: Charlie Patton, Son House, Lightnin Hopkins, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Mctell, Leadbelly, Leroy Carr, Mississippi Sheiks, Tommy Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Elmore James, Jimmy Reed, Buddy Guy... Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Hank Williams, Gram Parsons, Leonard Cohen, Roy Orbison, Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, John Prine, Loenard Cohen ... Bach, Vivaldi, Handel ... Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker.... the Verve, Richard Ashcroft, White Stripes, the Smiths, Radiohead, NIN, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, BRMC, Black Keys, etc.... If this were 1972, I believe I could play lead on Exile on Main Street all the way through... (correction: Wrong).
Favorite directors are Robert Altman, Martin Scoresese, P.T. Anderson, Kubrick, Linklater, Tenessee Williams film adaptations, lots of 70s films. Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino, Last Waltz, Gangs of New York, The Departed, The Game, Byrd, Theives Like Us, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Last Picture Show, A Street Car Named Desire, the Godfather, Lolita, Nashville, Rosemary's Baby, Double Indemnity, 400 Blows, Wild Strawberries, Deer Hunter, Animal House, Groundhog Day, Adaptation, Dazed and Confused, Old School, O, The Outsiders, Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, Deadman, Matchpoint, Sin City, Remains of the Day, Gimme Shelter, the Led Zeppelin DVD, Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey. Comedies, plays, documentaries...
Charlie Rose, Letterman, Simpsons, Family Guy, Married with Children(?)...
Philip Roth is my favorite writer. Moby Dick, King Lear, Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kafka, Joseph Conrad, Knut Hamsun's Pan, James T. Farrel's Studs Lonigan Trilogy, Moliere's Misanthrope, Albert Camus' The Plague, Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts, John Rechy's City of Night, Philip Roth's American Pastoral, The Human Stain, Everyman, Dostoyevsky, Checkov, Kerouac, Burroughs, Celine, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neil, Dante's La Vita Nouva, Flaubert's Madame Bovary ... books about music, like Hammer of the Gods, and Bill Wyman's blues book...Harold Bloom, Western and Eastern Philosophy: Plato, Nietzsche, Emerson, Jung, books on Marx, the Bhagavad Gita... 19th century English writers, Yeats, Stevens, Millay, Frost, Fernando Pessoa, Carver, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, etc.
Writers, troubadours, legends of the blues.