yoga, running, music, films,travel, used book stores, Al Franken on the radio (no more Air America for Al, but now the next junior Senator from Minnesota), New Yorker cartoons
Al Franken
In no particular order...Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Alejandro Escovedo, Gandalf Murphy, Ali Farka Toure, Patty Griffin, Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt, Ollabelle,Van Morrison, Don Henley, Dixie Chicks, Andrea Bocelli,Patti Smith, Dave Matthews, the New Heathens, Martin Sexton, Los Lobos, Neko Case,The Little Willies, Wilco, Mark Knopfler, The Pretenders, Norah Jones, Steely Dan, JJ Cale, Beth Orton, Amos Lee, Marvin Gaye, Joan Osborne, Earth Wind and Fire, Rilo Kiley, Eric Clapton, Velvet Underground, Brian Eno, Dire Straights, Emmylou Harris, the Stones, Peter Gabriel, Oasis, Gomez, Peter Yorn, The Cure, Shawn Colvin, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Sarah McLachlan, Etta James, Yo La Tengo, The Smithereens, Edie Brickell, Sigur Ros, Richie Havens, Spanking Charlene, Chris Isaak, The Clash, Neil Young, The Yayhoos, Elvis Costello, The Stones, Natalie Merchant, Cowboy Junkies, Grandaddy, the Damnwells, Madragada, Ani DiFranco, Gomez, B-52's,Shawn Colvin, the Decemberists, Cat Empire
Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Age of Innocence, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Peres, Memento, Amelie, Central Station, The Usual Suspects, The Station Agent, Secretary, The English Patient, Crash, Boys Don't Cry, Chocolat, Waiting for Guffman, Dirty Pretty Things, Mulholland Drive, The Sea Inside, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Barbarian Invasions, A Very Long Engagement,The Squid and the Whale, Murderball, Saving Grace, Born Into Brothels, sex, lies and videotape, Lovely and Amazing, Half Nelson
Not much, but...Arrested Development, The Office, the Colbert Report and still, ER
John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Lamott, Faulkner, Al Franken, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kerouac