Mountain biking, Chess, Backgammon, reading, T'ai Chi, Frisbee, writing, archery, racquetball, tennis, playing guitar; drums, hacky Sack.
Rudy Van Gelder, Salvador Plascencia, Yardbird, Lorenzo di Medici, Marley Kaul, James Frey, Herman Hesse, that guy that rode his riding lawnmower across America, Barrack Obama, Webster (midget or wordsmith), Krishnamurti, My cousin Eric.
Gomez. The Go! Team, Kings of Leon, Badly Drawn Boy, Actual Tigers, Charlie Parker, Bob Marley and his 900 sons, Jimmy Hendrix. John Butler Trio and his natty ass dreads as God's gift to your ears. Paul Desmond and his smooth ass. A3 . The Black Keys. Hazmat Modine for eluding similarity and any sense of comparative sound. The Velvet Underground for smoking me up . Robert Randolph for letting me be a part of his Family Band, sockless and sore from stompin'. Ella and Louis. Dizzy for leaving me vertiginous. Art Blakey for his mean-ass press rolls. Dave Matthews, Ahmad Jamal, John Coltrane, Muse, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Led Zeppelin, The Bad Plus, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Blues Explosion, Toby Lightman, Beirut, Tapes 'N' Tapes, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes, Regina Spektor, Young MC, Poe, Ian Broudie, Sia, and I'll say Gomez again.
What Dreams May Come, The Neverending Story, The Labyrinth, Lucky Number Slevin, Gladiator, Braveheart, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Secretary, Willow, Merlin, Beastmaster, Life as a House, Tao of Steve, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, the Dark Crystal, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Little Miss Sunshine, Stranger than Fiction, Tombstone, The Wedding Crashers, . . . et al.
Battlestar Galactica. Anyone who has known about this show and has kept me out of the loop, I will hunt down.
Kokoro, The People of Paper, Magister Ludi, Siddhartha, Million Little Pieces, House of Leaves, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, American Gods, Narcissus and Goldmund, Forever, Cryptonomicon, The Shadow of the Wind, Scar Night, Love in the Time of Cholera, Only Revolutions, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Into The Wild, Running with Scissors, Choke, VAS: An Opera in Flatland, Steppenwolf, Cellestine Prophecy, Dracula...
Rear Admiral William Adama in command of the Colonial Fleet.