Writing, cooking, reading, drinking, bowling, grape soda, snowboarding, fishing, poker, hiking, cycling, biting the heads off of gummi bears, local music shows, exploring new places to eat around L.A., good conversation(c'mon people, grow an attention span),Particle physics(Go LHC!), walking at night...I like pickled things at times.
Movers, shakers, bakers, sea captains, astronauts, cosmonauts, turtle hunters, and happy coincidences.
I like a lot of folk and blues like John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Willie Nelson, and Junior Brown. I also like Jamaican Rocksteady(sigh), Charlie Parker, Television, Ween, Benny Goodman, Daft Punk, The Kinks, PU$$Y Cow, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Canned heat, Dinah Washington, The Specials, The Muffs, Dengue Fever, White Stripes, Os Mutantes, Fela Kuti, Blondie, B. B. King, Dr. Dre, The Vandals, Desmond Decker, Herb Albert...
The Commitments, Hustle and Flow, Just about every Coen Brother's film, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Warriors, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Adaptation, American Splendor, Eternal Sunshine of the blah blah blah, Star Wars(4,5,and 6), Willow, Amores Perros, El Mariachi, The Weather Man, True Romance, Trading Places...
I take it to the beach so I can watch shark week on the realz! Anything from the History channel.
One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Brief History of Time, Cold Mountain, I am Legend, For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Corrections, How to be Alone, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Of Mice and Men, The Metamorphosis, Johnny Got His Gun, Fahrenheit 451, The Thin Red Line, To Have and Have Not, Candide, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1984, Catch-22, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Slaughterhouse 5, The Road, Thirteen Moons.
My mom, Stephen Hawking. Apparently, Julia Child was recruited to the OSS years before she was a professional chef. Take THAT Hitler!