baking cookies and carrot cake, taping memorabilia to the walls, painting--for practical and whimsical purposes, recycling, playing life and scrabble with kids who want very badly to beat me, making up songs and playing them with better musicians, making grandiose plans
music friends, writers, wives, injured runners
Morten Lauridson, Belle and Sebastian, Beth Orton, Nina Simone, Neko Case, Stephan Grappelli, Gillian Welch, Antony & the Johnsons, The Cocteau Twins, Sinead O'Conner, Django Reinhardt, David Bowie, Sting, Papas Fritas, Pedro the Lion, Daniel Lanois, James Taylor, James Brown, The Everly Brothers, Leonard Cohen, Emmylou Harris, Waterdeep, Sting, Lucinda Williams, Elton John, Vince Guaraldi, Frank Black & the Pixies, Blind Melon, TLC, Gwen Stephani, Led Zepplin III, Jill Sobule, Outcast, Janis Joplin, Weezer, Ani Reveling and Reckoning, Tom Waits, Bob Marley, Cowboy Junkies, Nancy Griffith, The Cranberries, The Cardigans, Radiohead, Cat Stevens, Ane Brun, Ron Sexsmith, Elliot Smith, The Smiths, The Beatles, Dylan, The Beach Boys, Lucinda Williams, Elvis, Wilco, Nick Drake, Mazzy Star, The Decemberists, Coldplay, The Flaming Lips, Violent Femmes, Traveling Wilburys, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac "Then Play On," My Morning Jacket, Brahms "Requiem," The Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Kings of Convenience, Reeve Coobs, Neil Young, Old Crow
Il Postino, The Lives of Others, Amelie, Rushmore, The Sound of Music, Tiger in the Snow, Monsoon Wedding
The OFFICE! & LOST
The Good Book, EAST OF EDEN, John Steinbeck, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabrielle Garcia Marquez, Passage to India, E.M. Forster, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald, How to be Good, Nick Hornby, Adriana Trigliani, Katherine Patterson, Wendell Berry, J.K. Rowling
Brandon & Steele the Dog