Team Roping, Surfing, Horses, Herding Dogs, Great White Sharks (not when I am surfing), Working Cows, 6th Street in Austin TX, Hanging out in Malibu CA, Beaches in Mexico, Drinking with good friends. Watching music live at Gruene Hall, River Road Ice House, John T Floore's Country Store and Stubb's BBQ, Tubing the Guadalupe River. Gruene Hall in Gruene, TexasJohn T. Floore's Country Store in Helotes, Texas Riley's Tavern in Hunter, Texas Tubing the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels, TX. Everybody's Somebody in Luckenbach Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Anyone who likes roping, surfing, Texas Music, cold beer, tequila shooters and/or raising hell (not necessarily in any particular order).
Americana and Texas Music, Bastard Sons Of Johnny Cash, Billy Joe Shaver, Bleu Edmondson, Bruce Robison, Buddy Miller, Charlie Robison, Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez, Chris Knight, Cory Morrow, Corb Lund, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Doug Moreland, Drive By Truckers, Eleven Hundred Springs, Fred Eaglesmith, Frog Holler,Hayes Carll, old Jack Ingram, James McMurtry, Jason Boland And The Stragglers, Jim Lauderdale, Kelly Willis, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, Micky and the Motorcars, Old Crow Medicine Show, old Pat Green, Randy Rogers Band, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Reckless Kelly, Robert Earl Keen, Ryan Bingham, Townes Van Zandt, Shooter Jennings, Steve Earle, Stoney LaRue, Todd Snider, Walt Wilkins, The Weary Boys, Whiskeytown, Wade Bowen, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson. I also like: Supersuckers, Eddie Spaghetti, Mike Ness, Social D., The Reverend Horton Heat, Sublime, Rancid, The Clash, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Reel Big Fish and The White Stripes. Yeah I know, a punk rock cowboy surfer, weird right? Oh, I can't forget The Rolling Stones or The Faces. ..
My very favorite movie is The Hi-Lo Country w/ Woody Harrelson (rent it, if you can find it). I also liked The Rounders (1965), Comes a Horseman, Open Range, Cheyenne Social Club, Pocket Money (1972, w/ Paul Newman) and all the old Clint Eastwood Westerns. For Non-Westerns I liked O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Natural Born Killers, Kalifornia and Seven (yeah I know, Red Flag).
Dexter, The Wild Boys, Viva La Bam, On the Edge of Country, CSI, Survivor, Saturday Night Live, O'Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes.
Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly and Winning the Future: A 21 Century Contract with America by Newt Gingrich. I also enjoy any books on Rodeo, Cattle Drives, Quarter Horses or Great Whites sharks.
My Grandfather (The toughest cowboy I ever knew) our troops, Ronald Reagan George W.