The all too obvious music (drums, guitar, bass), drawing, designing (modest attempts in creating websites and cd- covers every so often), travel, fine food, reason, taking photographs of seemingly unintriguing moments, books and geek magazines, certain secondhand things, fresh air, art, you? who knows.
People with opinions that matter. Oh, and Jim Keltner.
Motorpsycho, Gemma Hayes, Chocolate Genius, Masters of Reality, Autolux, Ryan Adams, Queens of the Stone Age, Doves, Elbow, Kyuss, Tom Petty, Wilco, Meshell Ndegeocello, Feist, Woost, Enedina, Fiona Apple, Shannon Wright, Elvis Costello, Al Green, Otis Redding, Dayna Kurtz, Aimee Mann, Bill Frisell, Viktor Krauss, Brad Mehldau, Dj Shadow, Ben Harper, Sufjan Stevens, Dr. John, Little Feat, Tool, Massive Attack, Daniel Lanois, Emmylou Harris, Ron Sexsmith, Jonatha Brooke, The Band, Elliott Smith, Miles Davis, JJ Cale, Foo Fighters, The Meters, Autopulver, Faith no More, Supergrass, Bob Marley, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Cream, Radiohead, Doyle Bramhall II, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd. Jon Brion is a genius.
Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, 2001, A Space Odyssey, Office Space, MST3K The Movie, Memento, Billy Elliot, Being John Malkovic, The Life Aquatic, Adaptation, Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia, Closer, Ghost World, Trees Lounge, Lonesome Jim, The Shawshank Redemption, Mystery Science Theatre 3000 -the Movie, The Usual Suspects, Tarantino, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Chasing Amy, The Full Monty, Fargo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Commitments, Brassed Off, The Big Lebowski, High Fidelity, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Life of Brian, Sleepy Hollow, The Meaning of Life, The Truman Show, Sling Blade, The Birds, Spinal Tap (Duh), Videodrome
Fast Show, The Office, Extras, Jools Holland, MST3K, South Park, Little Britain, 6 Feet Under, Alan Partidge, Catherine Tate, Carnivale, Curb your Enthusiasm
Kafka & Gummbah. Read a bit of Plato. On the Road by Kerouac, Junky by Burroughs. A Clockwork Orange by Burgess. Avoid Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Unless you're about to embark on a two year camping trip. Nabokov. Hermann Hesse. Arnon Grunberg. Herman Brusselmans. Zappa's and Levon Helm's autobiographies.
Jim Keltner, Matt Chamberlain, Abe Laboriel Jr, Brain Blade, Steve Jordan, Daniel Lanois, Bent, Snah & Gebhart. Steve Buscemi.