reading, music, a little writing, movies, learning some korean, learning to play piano at a little korean piano academy, cooking, movies, swimming, some other stuff i guess
Tom Snyder (may he rest in peace), William Pfaff, and various non-phonies of the world.
this could go on forever. let's see: Jazz: esp. Thelonious Monk, Trane, Art Blakey, Mingus, M. Davis, Dexter Gordon, Mose Alison, etc. Some folky stuff: Fred Neil, Woody Guthrie, Dave Van Ronk... These Guys: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Guy Clarke, Townes Van Zandt, Roger Miller The Usual: Beatles, Minutemen, Stones, Big Star, Elvis (both), John Cale, Vic Chesnutt, Pete Townshend, Johnny Cash, The Byrds, 13th Floor Elevators, Bruce Springsteen, Ricky Lee Jones, Flaming Lips, Anything out of Manchester (except Happy Mondays and Oasis), The Fall, Dylan, Captain Beefheart, Lucinda Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Replacements, Husker Du.... Friends: Every Alice on Earth, Nowhere Squares, Waylon Smith (and his various cohorts), Dabang Band, (the short lived) Loogey Stew... Korean Indie: Plastic People, Cocore, Hwang Shin Hyea Band...
too many...Movies of John Cassavetes, Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen, Scorcese, Fellini, P.C. Wilm (Forkitude Productions), Terry Zwigoff, Lee Chang Dong, Park Chan Wook, Hong Sang Soo, Jim Jarmusch, Hitchcock, Mike Nichols, Otto Preminger, Sam Fuller, old British kitchen sink drama directors... Specific Movies From Whoever: Jaws, Save the Tiger, Tempest (paul mazursky), Last Picture Show, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia...
All those damn HBO serial dramas, Rockford Files, all of Steve Coogan's shows (BBC)
Writers: Saul Bellow, Walker Percy, Graham Greene, Barry Hannah, Flannery O'Connor, Chaucer, Daniel Clowes, Faulkner, Raymond Carver, Danny Gamble, Bryce Northen, Philip Roth...
Jesus Christ, FDR, normal folks with bills to pay