Filmmaking, movies, reading, live music, travel / road trips, theology, beer, recreational sports / outdoor activities (rock climbing, tennis, running, bowling, yoga, etc.), the Dodgers, board and card games, crosswords, festivals, restaurants, history and foreign policy, New Orleans, the Hollywood Bowl
I'd like Andre Agassi to teach me how to play tennis. I'd like Fareed Zakaria to explain the Middle East to me. I'd like Phil Gordon to teach me how to play poker. I'd like to go shopping with Stacy and Clinton. I'd like Kate Winslet to take me on a pub crawl. I'd like Jamie Cullum to give me piano lessons. I'd like Martin Scorsese to teach me the history of film. I'd like to discuss literature with John Steinbeck and Salman Rushdie, religion with Huston Smith, and politics with Barack Obama and Al Gore. I'd like to just shoot the breeze with Bill Clinton. And Johnny Depp. And Mark Twain. But not necessarily at the same time -- though that would make for a pretty interesting conversation. .reRme p, .reRup:hover{background-image:url
Current favorites are... old country like Willie Nelson, Porter Wagoner, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, etc. Also love Chris Whitley, Josh Ritter, Green Day, Radiohead, Portishead, Tab Benoit, The Budos Band, Galactic, No Doubt/Gwen Stefani, Brian Wilson, Band of Horses, Doves
LOTR, Shawshank Redemption, Say Anything, Children of Men, Brokeback Mountain, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Parenthood, The Outsiders, Heathers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Almost Famous, Indiana Jones, Halloween (the original), Sense and Sensibility, Whale Rider, Twister, The Lost Boys, Dead Poets Society, The Breakfast Club, The Little Mermaid, When Harry Met Sally..., The Princess Bride, The Goonies, The Departed, Grease, Happy Gilmore, Notting Hill
Friday Night Lights, Deadliest Catch, Ax Men, Mad Men, Californication, The Shield, The Closer, Greek, Project Runway, Lost, The Daily Show, How I Met Your Mother, Rome, CSI (LV only!), Battlestar Galactica, Burn Notice, My Boys, Charlie Rose, News Hour w/ Jim Lehrer, BBC World News
Currently reading PILLARS OF THE EARTH with my dad - we have kind of a long distance book club. All-time favorites are... Heart of Darkness, East of Eden, Huck Finn, Letters From the Earth, Lord of the Rings, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Poisonwood Bible, Pride and Prejudice, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Three Musketeers, The Godfather, The Westing Game, World Religions, Eat Pray Love
My family. And Easy Reader.