Advocacy and denigration, at the same time and separately. More specifically:Movies and music (and moving musically, which is dancing); figuring out problems and then putting them in workbooks for children to solve. The West Coast, and looking at creative ways to go even further West. The Ocean. Old Architecture, amateur horticulture.Simple sentences and deliberate mis-spelling for dramatic effect. Hiking. Obituaries and death montages at the Oscars.Disagreements.
Presidential hopefuls and literary critics.
Radiohead, Bob Dylan, The National, Air, The Books, The Strokes, Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes.Elbow, Okkervil River, Gram Parsons, The Pixies, Fleet Foxes, The Beatles, The Byrds, She & Him, Georges Delerue.Doves, Chemical Brothers, Kings of Convenience, David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Walkmen, Langhorne Slim, The Avett Brothers, Eels, Phoenix, Spiritualized.Bernard Hermann, The Thrills, The Hold Steady, Joanna Newsome.
25th Hour, Affliction, After Hours, Almost Famous, Animal House, Barry Lyndon, Batman Begins, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Boogie Nights, Bourne Identity, Boyz in the Hood, A Bout de Souffle, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Fog of War, Glory, Goodfellas, Good Will Hunting, In the Bedroom, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Killing, JULES ET JIM, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lolita, Memento, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Muppet Movie, Ocean's 11, Ocean's 12, Old School, Philadelphia, Platoon, Quiz Show, Red, Reservoir Dogs, Ronin, Royal Tenenbaums, Saving Private Ryan, Shadows, Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, Swingers, The Thin Red Line, Trading Places, White, Coming to America, The Family Stone, Do the Right Thing, Hud, Le Mempris, M, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise, 12 Angry Men, Badlands, Days of Heaven, Rififi, Eyes Wide Shut, Celebrity, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Match Point, The Shining, The Wild Bunch, High Noon, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Basquiat, Catch Me if You Can, Elephant, Heat, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Mumford, Sliding Doors, Spy Game, Asphalt Jungle, Being There, All the President's Men, There Will Be Blood, The Godfather 1 and 2, No Country for Old Men, Squid and the Whale.
LOST, 30 Rock, The Office, Californication.Really old SNL, Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Newsradio.Kids in the Hall, Upright Citizens Brigade, Frasier.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Andre Dubus, Things Fall Apart, The Corrections, Vladmir Nabokov Short Stories, Pale Fire, The Defense, The Tipping Point, In the Heart of the Sea, Into Thin Air, Into the Wild, Andre Dubus, Underworld, Falling Man, Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close, Wanderer.
My Mom! Sterling Hayden. Humphrey Bogart. James Joyce. Arthur Miller. Dalton Trumbo. Cahiers du Cinema. Boston Brewing Company. Bill Clinton. The Kennedys. Peter Gammons.