Heartbreaking Bliss, Contagious Laughter, Film, Comic Books, Road Trips, Big Huggable Trees, Music, Live Concerts, Buying Crap I Don't Need, Travel, Old Camaros, Theatre, Driving Down PCH With The Top Down, Reading, Writing, Dreaming, Storytelling, Improvisation, Comedy, Chicago, Lyrics, Swearing, Spirituality, Serenity, Yoga, A Nice Cup Of Tea, Matt's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, Carrot Cake, Chocolate Soy Milk (Light), Sushi, Flirting, Big Bright Beautiful Flowers, Losing Sunglasses (The more expensive the better), Trains And Train Stations, Steamer Trunks, Coincedences, Synchronicity, Passion, Exuberance, Weird Pop, Prayer, Meditation, Conscious Contact, Good Cries, Unexpected Kindness, Trust, Divine Plans, Redemption, Big Rolling Bass Lines (Especially at the beginning of a song), Deja Vu, Pizza (Loaded with veggies please), Lyrics, Swearing (Both are worth saying twice), Poetry, Photography, Painting, Green Tea Ice Cream, Black Light Posters, Finding New Typos On My Profile, Autumn (Especially October), Trader Joe's, Cracking The Jewel Case Before I Even Open The CD, Spinach, Old School Arcades, Lake Shore Drive, El Camino Real, 6th And Rossmore, The 134, Route 66, Tying Down Distressed Damsels To Railroad Tracks, Deviously Waxed Moostaches, Saying 'Mustaches' With A Silly Yet Sinister Accent, The Number Known As Two
God, My Guardian Angels (Do I share them with Peter Falk?), Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, Phillip Lynott, Jalal-ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Any Elvis (Young or Vegas), Mark Twain, Bansky, John Wilkes Booth, Kilroy, Meher Baba, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mother Theresa, Oscar Wilde, John Frusciante, Steve Ditko, George Herman Ruth Jr., Florence Schovel-Shinn, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Jim Jarmusch, Michael Collins, John Belushi, my great grandparents and their parents and their parents and their . . .
Thin Lizzy, The Lawrence Arms, The Falcon, Sundowner, Alkaline Trio, Soul Asylum, The Replacements, John Frusciante, Sam Cooke, Ted Leo + Pharmacists, John Hiatt, Ratatat, Temple Of The Dog, Jonah Matranga, Lucero, The BoDeans, Steve Earle, Mother Love Bone, Motion City Soundtrack, Bob Schneider, The Hold Steady, The Album Leaf, Mirah, Material Issue, Cheap Trick, Colossal, American Steel, Dead To Me, M. Ward, Johnette Napolitano, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, The Bouncing Souls, Sevan Loughran, Lab Rat, bigdumb, (And lots and lots of other artists, albums, and songs that make my skin tingle in the best way possible.)
The Best Of Youth, Head-On (Fatih Akin), Amelie, Henry Fool, Night On Earth, Down By Law, The Adventures of Robin Hood, La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, The Bicycle Thief, Basquiat, La Femme Nikita, The Professional, Summer of Sam, Once Were Warriors, Clean And Sober, Glengarry Glen Ross, Force 10 From Navarone, Corvette Summer, The Warriors, City of God, Midaq Alley, The Apartment, Garden State, Rocky, Stonewall (Nigel Finch), Some Like It Hot, La Dolce Vita, Amateur, The Fisher King, Il Postino, She's Having A Baby, Straight Time
The Sopranos, The Andy Griffith Show, WKRP, Welcome Back Kotter, The Shield, Murder One, Third Watch, Rescue Me. (I should probably mention that I haven't had a television of my own since I was seventeen and really don't want one now.)
The Essential Rumi, Permanent Midnight, Dry, To Kill A Mockingbird, Jesus' Son, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Down And Dirty Pictures, Barrel Fever, Our Band Could Be Your Life, All Creatures Great And Small, The Artist's Way, The Grapes Of Wrath, Batman: Year One, Daredevil: Born Again, Joe Matt's Peepshow, You Can Heal Your Life, Oh, The Places You'll Go, The Game Of Life And How To Play It
Count Von Count. The soy bean. The next person who offers me a gig or makes me a cheese sandwich.