Historic Preservation, My mountain bike and other outdoor sports, tennis, antique prints, my 2 cats: Scout and Hunley, painted buntings & sandpipers pluff mud cicadas salt marshes hammocks and spanish moss, spirituals, South Carolina artisans: Carew Rice, Jonathan Green,Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, and Phillip Simmons, bluegrass music, old movies and film noir, WPA during the Great Depression, Georgian Architecture and Adams Period in relation to Pompeii, Lowcountry and creole cuisine, Gullah culture, Kara Walker, Alabama Artisans: Lila Graves, Bird (Regina Nelson Florey)
Ray Lamontagne, Matlock, Zooey Daschanel, Parker Posey
Ben Harper, My Morning Jacket, Ray LaMontagne,Johnny Mathis Guster, Steve Earle, Old Crow Medicine Show, Big Mama Thornton, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch, HEM, Wilco, Cowboy Junkies,Rickie Lee Jones Robinella & the CC Stringband, Van Morrison, Allison Krauss, Hackensaw Boys, Nickel Creek, Hughey Lewis & the News, Stacey Earle, Steam Powered Airplane, Leftover Salmon,
Jolie Holland, Blue Dogs, Mason Jennings, Lucinda Williams, Emma Gibbs Band, Jeff Buckley, Ryan Adams, John Prine, Bela Fleck, Eva Cassidy, Rev. Gary Davis, Blind Boys of Alabama, Mahalia Jackson, Alabama Gravy Soppers, Clarence Carter, Iron & Wine, Toots and the Maytals, Amos Lee, Tom Waits, Keb Mo', M Ward, Abigail Washburn, The Duhks
Cold Mountain, Cool Hand Luke, Sunset Boulevard, The Big Chill, Stand By Me, Road to Perdition, Splendor in the Grass, Secondhand Lions, The Patriot, Gosford Park, Viking Funeral, The Constant Gardener, Wonder Boys,Y Tu Mama Tambien, Anne of Green Gables, The Mission, Dead Poets Society, Amores Perros, Fletch & Fletch Lives, All I Wanna Do, Where the Red Fern Grows, Frida, High Fidelity, Death of a Salesman, O Brother Where Art Thou,Less Than Zero, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, On the Waterfront, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Some Like it Hot, All the Real Girls, Pride & Prejuidice, Life as a House, This Property is Condemned, The Dreamers, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, Marie Antoinette, Friends with Money, Hud, Easy Rider
The Thirsty Traveler, Bridezillas, America's Castles, Sex & the City, Gilmore Girls, Restore America, Matlock, CBS Sunday Morning, any Ken Burns Documentary on PBS, Hal Roach's Our Gang/Little Rascals, History Channel's The States, AMC's MAD MEN, Ovation TV and its Martin Sorcese's film series
Theodore Rex, Winston Churchill: A Biography, Catcher in the Rye, Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Tales of Edisto, Robert Mills: America's First Architect, The Ragamuffin Gospel, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, The Great Gatsby,Edna St. Vincent Millay, Slim: Memories of a Rich and Imperfect Life, The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy,Gods in Alabama, Blue Like Jazz, Lee Smith's Fair & Tender Ladies along with Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain), A Moveable Feast... Hemingway, any poetry by Keats (esp. La Belle Dame Sans Merci),Romana the Brave, The Secret Life of Bees, The Witches or anything Roald Dahl or Shel Silverstein, Redeeming Love, author David Payne, Confederacy of Dunces
Gates & Margot Shaw, Julie Rowland,Parents(Mary Helen,Sis,Bill), The Virginias (both grandmothers) Angelle Adams & the Penn sisters