Our dogs. FOR ZOE: Gardening. Reading. Using power tools. For home improvement. Not the other kind of power tools. Argentine Tango together. Singing. FOR TIM: Reading, Writing, Martial arts (currently Zen sword and fencing).
ZOE: I guess I wouldn't mind meeting Carl Sagan, but he's dead. Bach would be cool, but he's dead too. Ditto Queen Elizabeth the First. I suppose that I like dead people. Maybe if you were dead, I would like you too. Donna, I'm kidding. I really don't hate. I do like the History Channel, however... I mean I would if we had a TV. TIM: Bill O'Reilly. So I can kick the crap out of him.
ZOE: Country. Punk. Classic Jazz and Blues Vocalists (Ella, Etta, Sarah Vaughn, Diana Krall), Brazilian Music, Modern Cellists (Zoe Keating, Gretchen Yanover, Eric Kory, Christine Gunn). TIM: Punk. Country. Ditto on the modern Cellists, folk music, new freak-folk, ice cold gansta rap.
Don't like movies.
Don't have a TV.
ZOE:Sunset Western Garden Book, Jewel Box Garden, Shocking Beauty (both by Thomas Hobbes), The Chronicles of Narnia (read in succession), Tortilla Flat (John Steinbeck), Beloved (Toni Morrison) TIM: The Good Soldier (Ford Maddox Ford), Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon), The Adventures of Cavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon), The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus), Lord of the Rings Trilogy plus the Hobbit, Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler), The Black Dahlia (James Elroy), Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shunryu Suzuki), The Island of the Day Before (Umberto Eco), The Secret Agent (Josef Conrad), At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
They've always been cowboys.