Music, Travel, Music. And lounging. And getting excited about things. Oh, and other interesting things.
Chris Thile, Thom Yorke, Nigel Tufnel, Di Vinci, Paolo Soleri, Nigel Godrich, Jon Stewart, Lawrence Welk, people who don't get stressed out by little things. And people I know in real life...
Phish, Muse, Radiohead, Bela Fleck, Nickel Creek, Edgar Meyer, Counting Crows, Bob Marley, The Shins, Black Crowes, Deathcab for cutie, Caffiene employees, David Gray, Flaming Lips, Imogen Heap, Malcom, Maroon 5, White Strips, Tracy Chapman, Grateful Dead, Ben Harper, Ben Folds, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Rusted Root, Moxy Fruvous, DMB, OAR, Dispatch, Sublime, Anathallo, Counting Crows, Clapton, Brian Setzer, Jeff Buckley, Loads of classical composers (especially early modal music, works for the renaissance, lots of intense baroque pieces, a lot of Beethoven, Phillip Glass, the list goes on for ages), Parliment, MMW, The Roots, Bluegrass, The Beatles, Santana, Eminem, YMSB, Sigur Ros..to name a few.
The Three Amigoes, Old School, The Little Mermaid, The Princess Bride, Braveheart, Napolean Dynamite, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind (is that the correct title?!), Garden State, Empire Records, Dazed and Confused. Leaving Las Vegas.
Sopranos (best story ever told.), HBO (Big Love, 6 Feet Under, Entourage, OZ, Rome), Old SNL, CNN, The Daily Show.
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Far Side, Writtings on Zen and Taoism, Beat poetry, anything by Aldus Huxley, Keroac, Ginsberg. Jitterbug Perfume. Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse. The Onion. Shel Silverstein. Dr. Seuss. The Alchemist. Musician Biographies.
Paul McCartney, Tom Robbins, Trey Anastasio, Shel Silverstein, Jim Henson.