I enjoy cricket, basketball, NC politics, being in the mountains, the acoustic guitar, driving at night, shaving monkeys, Harp lager, boiled peanuts, sneezing, good live music, great friends, and travel, historical, political and biographical literature.
David Gergen, Bill Friday, Van Morrison, Dean Smith (check), Phil Ford (check), Allison Janney, Morgan Freeman, Bill Bryson, Minnie Driver (check), Jay Clifford (check)
Ray Lamontagne, the Wood Brothers, Bob Dylan, Jump Little Children, James Taylor, u2, Simon and Garfunkel, The Avett Brothers, The Rosebuds, Mike Garrigan/Collapsis, Roman Candle, Wilco, , Iron and Wine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Andrew Bird, Great Lake Swimmers, Van Morrison, Fruit Bats, R.E.M., The Weakerthans, Counting Crows, the everybodyfields, the Bowerbirds, Hotel Lights, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Supergrass, Kings of Convenience. . . in no particular order. . . . . . Top Five Albums: 1) Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks 2) Nick Drake Five Leaves Left 3) R.E.M. Automatic for the People 4) Van Morrison Moondance 5) Counting Crows August and Everything After
The Shawshank Redemption, V For Vendetta, Office Space, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Dr. No, Munich, Rounders, The Usual Suspects, The Graduate, The Game, Big Fish, The Bourne Identity/Supremacy, Dead Poet's Society, Big, Ordinary People, The Candidate, JFK
The West Wing, Keith Olbermann, Grey's Anatomy, The Daily Show, Hardball, Family Guy
Walden (Thoreau) // A Walk in the Woods (Bryson) // The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Haddon) // Tar Heel Politics 2000 (Leubke) // Longitudes and Attitudes (Friedman) // The World is Flat (Friedman) // The World Atlas of Wine (Johnson) // The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)