Music, Reading, Drinking, Biking, good times with friends, and Traveling.
Ian Brown, Conor Oberst, Pete Doherty (and hit him a smack across his head), Morrissey circa 1983, Ian Curtis, John Lennon, JD Salinger.
BRITISH:
British Sea Power, Oasis, Grandaddy, James, Embrace, Happy Mondays, Ocean Colour Scene, The Libertines, The Cure, The Smiths, OMD, Morrissey, Kasabian, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, JAM, Ian Brown, The Beatles, David Bowie, Joy Division, The Coral, Supergrass, Pulp, The Music, Primal Scream, etc.
AMERICAN:
Bright Eyes, Face To Face, Jawbreaker, Mineral, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Postal Service, Animal Collective, Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Stevens, The Flaming Lips, The Killers, The Walkmen, Cursive, Built To Spill, Weezer, Modest Mouse, Kings of Leon, etc.
MOTOWN, JAZZ, BLUES:
Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Armstrong, Marvin Gaye, Modern Jazz Quartet, Miles Davis, Outkast, Thelnious Monk, Michael Jackson, Etta James, John Coltrane, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Chet Baker, Charles Mingus, etc.
1. Jarhead (It reveals the frenetic frustration of the first Gulf War (My war gone by, I miss it so)
2. Bamboozled (One of the best films of the last 15 years, and no one talks about it)
3. The Usual Suspects
4. Inside man
5. Chinatown
6. Rushmore (everything else with Jason Schwarzman is shite)
7. Harold and Maude (Rushmore Pt. 1)
8. Das Boot (An excellent war film)
9. Pretty in Pink (an instant classic)
10. Pump Up the Volume (ahhhh, Christian Slater)
11. Withnail and I (from which Morrissey got the the playful wordplay CD title "Vauxhall and I")
12. The French Connection (Best car chase)
13. Ronin (Second-best car chase)
1. Football
2. The Amazing Race
3. ER
4. 24
5. Scrubs
6. Jeopardy
7. Nightly World News
RECENTLY READ:
Awakening (Chopin)
CURRENTLY READING:
For Whom The Bell Tolls (Hemmingway) READ WAY BACK:
American Lit., Russian Lit., Brit Lit., Poetry (ancient to modern), and select nonfiction.
SOME OF MY FAVORITES:
1. Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
2. Catcher In The Rye (JD Salinger)
3. Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon)
5. The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
6. Blackden (Duncan Maclean)
7. Hiroshima (John Hersey)
8. Lord of the Barnyard (Tristan Egolf)
9. The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
10. Night (Elie Weisel)
11. Selected Poems (Simon Armitage)
12. Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Joel Gillespie, who came to my defense when I was a weakling, and who died too young.
My grandfathers, one who died commanding dignity, the other struggling to possess it.
My Brother, Tim, whose quiet disposition and childlike qualities I envy, whose measure is deceptively simple.