Writing, recording and playing music. Reading. Meditation. Geeking out on gear.
Heartbreakers, Risktakers, Boxbreakers and Troublemakers...
oh geez...Wolf Parade, Hot Chip, Can, Billy Childish / Thee Headcoats, The Headcoatees, Verbena, The Smiths / Morrissey, The Harry Smith Folk Anthology, Mick Harvey, Jucifier, Pixies, Radiohead, Bloc Party, Ween, The Von Bondies, Yo La Tengo, Interpol, Robert Fripp, White Stripes, Brian Eno, Broadcast, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, John Frusciante, Serge Gainsbourg, David Byrne / Talking Heads, Magnetic Fields, Joy Division, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Mike Watt and his many projects, John Lee Hooker, Ravonettes, Leadbelly, Secret Machines, Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Melvins, Charles Mingus, Arcade Fire, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, PJ Harvey, Beck, Jesus and Mary Chain, Lou Barlow / Sebadoh, Butthole Surfers, Afghan Whigs / The Twilight Singers, Barry Adamson, Add N to X, T Bone Burnett, Dirty Three, The Cure, The Shins, Spoon, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Modest Mouse, Patti Smith, Franz Ferdinand, Mark Lanegan, The Sorrow, Marvin Pontiac / John Lurie / The Lounge Lizards, The Walkman, Calvin Johnson / Beat Happening / Halo Benders, Olivia Tremor Control, Sam Cooke, She Wants Revenge, Broken Social Scene, LCD Soundsystem, The Kills, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Death Cab, etc. ad infinitum...
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, The Brothers Karamazov, The Joke, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The I Ching, The Idiot, random spiritual texts and other stuff that I happen to be forgetting at the moment.
My friends and family.