Manchester United, English Premiership football (best in the world), North Carolina Tar Heels basketball, cooking, and traveling.
Music:
I like avant-garde musicians, those who are not accepted by the normal masses because their sound pushes the edge, is usually dark, and has always been up against it. The concept of avant-garde refers exclusively to marginalized artists, writers, composers and thinkers whose work is not only opposed to mainstream commercial values, but often has an abrasive social or political edge. Outlaw country, downtempo, trip-hop, indie artists in hip-hop and rock, punk rock, garage rock, new wave, post punk, and some alternative (this particular genre has gone to shit of late.) These styles of music are what I embrace fully.
Artists such as: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, The New Pornographers, Emiliana Torrini, Bjork, Regina Spektor, Zero 7, Metric, Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton, Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, Sonic Youth, Portishead, Sleater-Kinney, Beastie Boys, Atmosphere, Dwight Yoakam, Cat Power, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Love and Rockets, Fiona Apple, Miles Davis, Mos Def, David Bowie, Neko Case, Bouncing Souls, Radiohead, R.E.M., The Kills, Joy Division, Velvet Underground, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Pixies, Hole, Clash, Ramones, The Raveonettes, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Public Enemy, Generation X, The Corrs, Santogold, The Cure, Against Me!, PJ Harvey, Rancid, Incubus, Bad Religion, Death Cab for Cutie, Queen, Hank Williams Sr, Jr, III, Interpol, Tegan and Sara, Astrud Gilberto
Nico = Proper Rock Mistress
Movies:
Juno, Good Fellas, Shopgirl, Blade Runner, Blade, Killing Fields, Fight Club, Matrix, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Persepolis, High Fidelity, Animal House, Anchorman, Clerks, Batman Begins, The Shawshank Redemption, Godfather I and II.
Television:
Heroes, Battlestar Galactica Re-Imagined, Entourage, Lost, English Premiership Football, Fox Soccer Channel, Food Network, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire, and Arrested Development.
Books:
Biographies and cultural non-fiction readings that deal with cultural and religious conflicts and origins (Israel-Palestine, etc.) Sports biographies just as well.
Heroes:
Every good father and mother including my own.
