Flannel Sheets,Wicked Good Art, Reading, Junk Collecting, Table Tennis, The Polaroid SX-70, Shredding the RAD, Fishing, Chillin', The occasional Hasher(probably not the kind you're thinking of), Singing, Gardening, Roller Derby, Musical Instruments, Billiards, Bike Riding, Juggling, Waking in The Woods with Man's Best Friend, Wood Widdling,Farming, Mending, Hiking, Air to Fakie, Swimming, Running, Cooking, Gambling, Target Practice, Handplants, Snow______(insert fun things to do with snow here), Building, Creating, Breathing, Observing, Dancing, Horseshoes, Sea-related Things & catching tubes, brah. Scrabble anyone?
Those with a sense of history, the civilized, the not-so civilized, the musically minded, storytellers, survivalists, flatlanders, mountain dwellers, redheads, ramblers, knowledge seekers, the courteous, and sidewalk surfers.If you've got a little salt in you we'd get along just fine.
I'm particularly fond of: Patti Griffin, Elizabeth Cotten, The Campbell Brothers, The Magnetic Fields, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Allan Tousaint, Hank Williams, The Holmes Brothers, Prince, Mahalia Jackson, Leonard Cohen, The Carter Family, Lyle Lovett, Donny Hathaway, Elmore James, Bud Powell, David Bowie, "Mississippi" John Hurt, Ewan MacColl, Townes Van Zandt, Iris Dement, Tom Waits, Rev. Gary Davis, Charlie Poole, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Darell Scott, Mance Lipscomb, Frank Black, Josh Ritter, Billy Bragg, Jollie Holland, THE BAND, Built To Spill, Natalie Merchant, The Descendents, Derek and the Domino's, J.J. Cale, Guy Clark, Ryan Adams, The Byrds, Stephen Foster, Emmy Lou Harris, The Boss, Nick Drake, Slayer, B.O.C., Memphis Slim, The Stones, The Black Keys, The Jayhawks, Flaming Lips, John Prine, Flatt & Scruggs, Taj Majal, Buddy Guy, Fred J. Eaglesmith, Steely Dan, Huddie Ledbetter, Gamble Rodgers, Etta James, Boris McCutcheon, Jimmy Hendrix, The White Stripes, Sun Kill Moon, Tortoise, DJ Shadow, Tito Puente, La Perfecta, Herbie Hancock, Bob D., Joe Cuba, Gillian Welch, M. Ward, Buddy & Jullie Miller, Merle Travis, Booker T. and the M.G.s, John R. Cash, The Supersuckers, Neil Young, Rev. Horton Heat, R.L. Burnside, Lucinda Williams, O.C.M.S., Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Liz Phiar, The Everybodyfields, Aretha Franklin, The Grateful Dead, Burning Spear, Rachmaninoff, The Clash, J.B. Lenoir, Sabbath, Bela Fleck, "Lightnin" Hopkins, Doc Watson, Patsy Cline, Cleanest Dirty Shirt, and Debbie Gibson's "Electric Youth."
Munich,You, Me, and Everyone we Know, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey,Slapshot, Strange Brew, Psycho, The Triplets Of Belville, City Of God, Open Range, Shaun Of The Dead, Christopher Guest Movies, Litle Miss Sunshine, Lucas, Adaptation, 25th Hour, Memento, Blue Velvet, Gleaming The Cube, Dead Presidents, Winged Migration, Down By Law, Cool Hand Luke, Beetlejuice, The Dream Team, The Stoned Age,Trains, Planes, and Automobiles, Mystery Train, The Last Waltz, Raising Arizona, Knife In The Water, My Blue Heaven, Drugstore Cowboy, UHF, A Very Long Engagement, Full Metal Jacket, Anything with Don Cheadle or Denzel (They're pretty badass), Porky's 1 & 2, One Crazy Summer, The Deerhunter, C.H.U.D., Goodfellas, Monty Pyton's..., Ghoulie's, Juice, Wes Andersen Films, Silence Of The Lambs, Quicksilver, RAD, American Splendor, A’voir Les Enfants, Kung Fu Hustle, Die Hard and Steel Magnolias.
Woody Woodpecker, Sanford & Son, Lavern & Shirley, Benny Hill, Davey and Golliath, Sports Center, PBS, Carnivale, Baseball, Seinfeld, Happy Days, Eight Is Enough, The Jeffersons, Hollywood Squares, Dallas, Ken Burns Documentaries, That Show where Canadian kids wrestle in the backyard (Thanks Ben), Chapelle Show, Different Strokes, He-Man, Bob Ross, and that show where the Japanese folks get worked trying to perform rediculous challenges with English overdubing.
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (perhaps the best read of them all) , A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Melville, Wallace Stegner, Jonathan Lethem, James Thurber, This Organic Life, Willa Cather, Tom Robbins, Faulkner, Raymond Carver, E.O. Wilson, Emerson, Cervantes, J.C. Oates, Eduardo Galeano, Sedaris, Saul Bellow, A Confederacy Of Dunces, Lewis Thomas, Jim Carol, Bernard Malmud, The Iceman Cometh, Camus' The Plague, Zadie Smith, Anne Sexton, The Art Of Happiness, E.L. Doctorow, Graham Greene, Woody Gutherie: A Life (Klein), Arm's And The Man, Virginia Woolf, The Grapes Of Wrath, The Count Of Monte Christo, Robert Frost, Steve Almond, Philip Roth, Russell Baker, Howard Zinn, Dave Eggers, Plato, Zen And The art..., Roger Kahn, Paulo Cohelo, John Updike, Toni Morrison, Alfred Kazin's A Walker in The City, Czeslaw Milosz, Henry Miller, Barbara Kingsolver, Leonardo Davinci, Paul Theroux, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Henry Dana, Tom Wolfe...
A.P. Carter, Jeremy Wagner, Chuck Berry, Christian Hosoi( you're still the man Holmes!, god bless), Ella Joan Vargas, Roy Orbison, Edward Abbey, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Ty Webb y Mi Madre.