learning new things, running, politics, democracy, the media, blues music, filmmaking, beer and spirits, sketch comedy, philosophical discussions, remembering what I used to know about math, comparative religion, speechmaking, bridge building, climbing trees
I like meeting people who are really passionate and smart about whatever they are doing in life. If you're really passionate about something in life, I enjoy a good debate. However, one thing we will not debate is green eggs and ham. I am not Sam.
LATELY: The Kinks, Velvet Underground, The Ramones, The Beach Boys, Dropkick Murphys, The Shins, Radiohead, Lynyrd Skynyrd. THE CLASSICS: In Blues: Muddy Waters, Johnny Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Leadbelly; Johnny Cash; Motown; The Rat Pack; 60s pop; In Classic Rock: The Beatles, The Stones (Keith snorted Dad!), Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, AC/DC!!!; good ol' Rock and Roll (Chuck Berry w/ his bathroom cam)
Easy Rider, Jaws, Superman, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Boogie Nights, The Godfather I & II, Star Wars (IV-V-VI), American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, 2001, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Full Metal Jacket, Wall Street, The War Room, Airplane!, Planet of the Apes, American Psycho, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Blues Brothers, Flash Gordon
Family Guy, The Venture Brothers, The Simpsons, American Dad, Aeon Flux, The Daily Show & The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, Frontline, Rome, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Chappelle's Show, Deadwood, Boston Legal, Heroes
anything by Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country is great), The Looming Tower, Freakonomics, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Animal Farm, Brave New World, We, The Catcher in the Rye, The Revolution Will Not be Televised, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Assault on Reason, The Long Tail, What's The Matter With Kansas?, Army of Davids
Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Leonardo da Vinci, Muhammad Ali, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Kurt Vonnegut, "Sam Beckett", Issac Newton, MOM