Alternate realities, fun times, adventrurous endeavors, good beer, globetrotting, friends, and family.
I don't care as long as you're mellow and cool. People who don't take themselves too seriously are always welcome as are people who really, really enjoy laughing.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Morning After Girls, Spiritualized, The High Dials, Dead Meadow, The Stereo Workers Union, Mellow Drunk, The Lovetones, The Clientele, The Lea Shores, The People's Revolutionary Choir, Nick Drake, The 18th Day of May, The Black Angels, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Clean Prophets, Cosmic Roughriders, The Dandy Warhols, Ferderale, The Dreadful Yawns, Flogging Molly, The Tamborines, Goldrush, The Volta Sound, Low Flying Owls, Meow Meow, Mia Doi Todd, The Quarter After, The Secret Machines, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Spacemen 3, Spindrift, Supergrass, The Tyde,The Venue, Winter Flowers, The Daytime Frequency, and more
Some of my favorites are Cool Hand Luke, Master and Commander the Far Side of the World, The Shawshank Redemption, Hard Times, Casablanca, The Bad News Bears, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, Back to the Future, Braveheart, Excaliber, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Amelie, Ed Wood, Repo Man, Caddyshack, The Big Lebowski...
Arrested Development, Lost, Baseball Tonight, Anthony Bordain's No Reservations, History International Channel, Survivorman, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, The Andy Griffith Show, The Three Stooges, The Twilight Zone, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Little Britain, The Mighty Boosh, Peep Show...
Manalive by GK Chesterton, The Alchemist by Paolo Cohelo, Travels by Michael Crichton, The Taoist Quintet by Stuart Wilde, Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, Crow Search by James B. Fields, The Biggest Secret by David Icke...
My parents, my uncle, Paul Newman and Robert Redford, my brothers, my nieces and nephews, Frankie Teardrop, Steve McQueen, Ernest Hemingway, Christy Brinkley (especially on the Total Gym infomercial with co-host Chuck Norris, who incidentally came close to making this list along with Richard Dean Anderson and David Hasselhoff), Ted Willliams, and Russ Meyer