Writing music reviews, Chinese boxing, cooking, poetry, The Elder Scrolls, playing guitar, George R.R. Martin, cartooning, Transmetropolitan, HellBlazer, Kurosawa, the usual.
This is my entry into what has become the Internet white pages. I am only here to catch up with friends and acquaintances I haven't seen in years. If I don't know you already, don't bother. No offense. I'm sure you're just great.
Indie/Pop: the National, Owen, Iron and Wine, Dollar Canon, American Analog Set, The One AM Radio, Black Heart Procession, Ida, Kings of Convenience, Camera Obscura, matt pond PA, Metric, Radio Dept., Mark Kozelek/Red House Painters, American Football, Sigur Ros, Carissa's Weird, Spain, Hum, Dinosaur Jr., Yo La Tengo
EBM/IDM/Goth: Covenant, Joy Division, Abney Park, Siouxsie and the Banshees, VNV Nation, Dead Can Dance, Sisters of Mercy, Apoptygma Berzerk, VAST, Wumpscut, Assemblage 23
(Alt)Country: the Drive-By Truckers, Whiskeytown, Neko Case, Merle Haggard, Sera Cahoone, Johnny Cash, My Morning Jacket, the Wilders, Waylon Jennings
Overrated Crap You'll Never, Ever See On My Playlist: Modest Mouse, Grandaddy, Ryan Adams, Archers of Loaf, Thom Yorke, Belle and Sebastian
Stanley Kunitz, Alan Dugan, Po Chui, James Wright, Buson, Milan Kundera, Red Pine, Gary Snyder, Julien Green, Francois Mauriac, Gaston Bachelard, Graham Greene, Stephen Pinker, Malcom Gladwell, Steven Brust, George R.R. Martin, Glen Cook, Barry Graham, Nate Leiderbach, Christopher Casey, and of course Cherie Priest.