Current Favs: Calexico, Drive By Truckers, Wilco, Okkervil River, Neko Case, Modest Mouse, Spoon, Clutch, English Beat, The Hold Steady and from the way back, Johnny Cash, The Who and the Rolling Stones. I also like to play music and have been lucky enough to have played drums for Kelly Pardekooper, The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Justin Grant and the Bar Room Drifters, Death Ships, Matthew Grimm, Randy Burk and the Prisoners, Brother Trucker, Bob Hillman, Dave Olson, Kathryn Musilek, Teddy Morgan, Paul Cary, The Defenestration Jazz Quartet, Tom Jessen, Joe Metzka and some other folks that I'm not thinking of currently.
Mostly HBO series, Sopranos, 6 Feet Under, Entourage, Deadwood. Plus with all the time I spend in hotels: CNN & ESPN.
Recent reads include Still Life With Woodpecker, Robins; Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut; Truman, McCullough; Cannery Row, Steinbeck; Che Guevara-A Revolutionary Life, Anderson.