Literature, music, opera, art, photography, travel, tennis, Wayfarers, lunchtime.
Old friends.
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Radiohead, Beck, Elliott Smith, Sean Hayes, Mason Jennings, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Bjork, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Madonna, Gillian Welch, Keren Ann, Skip James, Robert Johnson, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, New Order, Violent Femmes.
The Wizard of Oz, An Angel at my Table, Fargo, Amadeus, Waiting for Guffman, Harold and Maude, Small Change, Ghost World, Persepolis, No Country for Old Men, The Piano, My Father's Glory, The Royal Tenenbaums.
Lost, The Office.
John Fowles, Jose Saramago, Janet Frame, Annie Proulx, Emily Bronte, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dan Chaon, Jane Austen, Joyce Carol Oates, Milan Kundera, George Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gerald Stern, Donald Hall, Sylvia Plath, Charles Baxter.