Hiking trips, dogs, crossword puzzles, comedy, longform improv, documentaries (film & radio), good stories and storytellers, and travel travel travel.
Michael Oher, John Prine, Taj Mahal, Annie Lamott, Lorrie Moore, Tom Thayer, Buzz Kilman, Jazz Freddy.
OK GO, Ike Reilly, Townes Van Zandt, De La Soul, Regina Spektor, The Magnetic Fields, Ms. Dynamite, The Streets, Louis Armstrong, Tegan and Sara, John Prine, Both Wainwrights: Loudon and Rufus, Calexico, Old 97's, Keb' Mo, Nick Lowe, Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal, Cole Porter, Talking Heads, Robbie Fulks, Jonny Lang, The Sounds, Neil Young, Los Lobos, Tom Waits, Paul Simon, Mark McAdam, The Format, Blossom Dearie.
Hands On A Hard Body, Spellbound, Waiting for Guffman, This is Spinal Tap, Cinema Paradiso, The Godfather, The Celebration, Raising Arizona, Fargo, Hannah and Her Sisters.
30 Rock, The Wire, The Office (both of 'em), Freaks and Geeks, The Sopranos, The Sarah Silverman Program, Undeclared, Veronica Mars, Psych, The Unit, Rome, America's Next Top Model (I miss you, Shandi), Project Runway, Law & Order (all of 'em) and LUCKY LOUIE. sniff.
The Blind Side, Geek Love, Infinite Jest, Mating, Aloft, The Captain's Verses, Calculus (Spivak), Digging To America, Prep, pretty much everything Lorrie Moore has written.
The good doctors: Oren and Miriam.