Art, National and International Politics, Good food, Good wine, Good company, rummaging around in other people's garages and basements, driving, reading, gossiping, avoiding housework and other duties.
Jimmy Carter, George Burns, Sara Vowell, David Milch, Tom.
Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Josephine Baker, Prokofiev, George and Ira Gershwin, Wynonie Harris, Metallica, Tom Waits, Gillian Welch, Ministry, Count Basie, Joan Jett, Screamin Jay Hawkins, The Ramones, The Cramps, Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Louis Jordan, Louis Prima (and David Lee Roth doing Louis Prima), Elvis, Lyle Lovett, Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, Sex Pistols, White Stripes, Black Flag, Jet, New Pornographers, Hank Williams (Senior!!), Black Sabbath, Big Sandy, Rev. Horton Heat, and yes, the Andrews Sisters.
Good Lord. Anything by: Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, Peter Greenaway, Ken Russell, Wes Anderson, Frank Capra, Mike Nichols, Mel Brooks, Orson Welles, Monty Python, John Huston, Howard Hawkes, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Joel and Ethan Coen, Federico Fellini and Woody Allen. Harold and Maude, The Color Purple, Ghost World, Donnie Darko, Dazed and Confused, Metropolis, Repo Man, Memento, Amelie, Delicatessen, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, City of God, The Usual Suspects, Before Sunset, The Philadelphia Story, anything with Laurence Olivier or Cary Grant or Steve Buscemi or Adam Sandler or Bill Murray. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Super Troopers, Billy Madison, Airplane, Caddyshack.....The last movies that I saw and really really liked were Junebug, Waiting, and Chaos (French). And Hustle and Flow.
Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Lost, The Daily Show, The Sopranos, Entourage, Desperate Housewives, The West Wing, Keith Olbermann, Hardball w/ Chris Matthews, My Name is Earl
Milan Kundera, Mikhail Bulgakov, Jeanette Winterson, Henry Miller, Nick Hornby, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, David Sedaris, Douglas Adams, Jane Austen.
Jimmy Carter. Cindy Sheehan. Kanye West. Deep Throat. Patrick Fitzgerald. Martin Luther King. Amelia Earhart. Jon Stewart. Seymour Hersh. Alfred Kinsey. That dude in Tianenmen Square in 1989. Edward R. Murrow. Anyone who takes big risks every day without the cameras rolling. Anyone who has the courage to speak truth to power. The world needs more of them!
And of course my original heroes, my wonderful family.