Traveling to large European cities and living in run-down apartments there. Eating Japanese Noodles. Writing spontaneous poetry on napkins. Stalking Keith Jarrett. NPR in the afternoons. Making a fool out of myself on as many stages and in front of as many cameras as possible. Making out in cars, which is almost more fun now that I don't fit. Humming.
French girls who wear Converse.
Japanese girls who want to fight.
And Banksy.
Ray LaMontagne, Jeff Buckley, Keith Jarrett (listen to the 'Koln Concert' and find God), Alexi Murdoch, Matt Nathanson, Ryan Montbleau, Black Crowes, Stevie Wonder, french tango, Kanye West, Mr. T Experience, exploding hearts, Neutral Milk Hotel, old Modest Mouse, new Modest Mouse, more Jeff Buckley, Sarah Vaughan, Maude Maggart, Dizzy, Monk, Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson (love the music, not the man), anything Motown, Hard-Fi, Cafe Tacuba, Chavela Vargas, Amos Lee, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Common, John Legend, and any rock that was playing when I was in middle school. And Jeff Buckley.
Casablanca, Roger Dodger, Easy Rider, Almost Famous, Roman Holiday, The Third Man (for that matter anything Film Noir), Naked Lunch, Big Trouble in Little China, Ghostbusters, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, kubrick, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2, West Side Story, Amores Perros, Abre Los Ojos, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Say Anything, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Waking Life, Donnie Darko: Director's Cut, and Karate Kid parts I & II, but definitely not III
LOST, Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, The Jim Lehrer News Hour, and old episodes of The Kids in the Hall, Unsolved Mysteries, and The Twilight Zone.
kundera.
whitman.
kerouac.
murakami.
chekhov.
shakespeare.
jung.
campbell.
shepard.
stoppard.
kinnell.
irving.
chodron.
vonnegut.
you. and corey feldman.