Music. Playing it, creating it, recording it and listening to it with as many people as we can fit into the room. Yoga. Hiking and biking in the hills. Swimming in the ocean (although it doesn't happen as often as it should). Lazy days. Buddhism. Getting into double decker buses and driving around L.A.
Other Ab Fabbers. People with something new to show and tell me.
Changes daily. Lately, Daniel Lanois, The Shins, !!!, TV On The Radio, Radiohead, Tool, the Meters, Shuggie Otis, Wilco, Interpol, Nick Drake, Bill Withers, John Cale, The Cars, Supergrass, Air, Mars Volta, Queens of the Stone Age, always Zeppelin & Beatles, Beth Orton, Cee-Lo, Bowie, Elliot Smith, Elvis Costello, XTC, Harry Nilsson, Journey, Ron Sexsmith, the Smiths, Duran Duran, Woven, Bird & the Bee, Mike Andrews, Willoughby, Soul of John Black, John Gold, Secret machines, Pleasure Club, Maimou, Theodore, and Stevie Wonder.Also, check out the sites of people I'm lucky enough to play with:***PEDESTRIAN*** www.pedestrianmusic.org www.myspace.com/pedestrianmusic***JOHN CALE*** www.john-cale.com***SEXTUS*** www.myspace.com/sextus***JOHN GOLD*** www.johngoldmusic.com
The Godfather, Star Wars, LOTR, Apocalypse Now, Paper Moon, Farenheidt 911, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, Pan's Labrynth, Anchorman, any Monty Python, Seven Samurai, Casablanca, Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, in fact most concert films, Alien, and chinese kung fu movies.
I don't have cable anymore. I cut the cord. But I used to watch any cooking show I could get my hands on. Also, Arrested Development, The Office (UK), Battlestar Galactica.
Stranger in a Strange Land, Atlas Shrugged, Crime & Punishment, Unbearable Lightness of Being, any Hunter S. Thompson, the Alchemist, Life of Pi, Master & Commander Series, Harry Potter, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Stand, The People's Act of Love, Love in the Time of Cholera, Neruda, LOTR, weird health books, Blink, Archaic Revival, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Corrections, Middlesex, Choke, Perfume, People's History of the U.S., A Game of Thrones, all Vonnegut and anything you recommend. I love to read and always need new stuff.