Cooking, surviving midtown traffic on my bike, learning ranchero and bluegrass songs, extended travel, garage band, answering hypothetical questions, lazy days in the hammock, coffee, the brooklyn bridge at 4am...
Music geeks, boyz on bikes, a banjo player, coffee fanatics, a spanish tutor, a sunday lover, someone who gets my tattoo...
Never seeing Nina Simone live has been the largest musical tragedy of my life. Once I start talking about her it is almost impossible to get me to stop. Nick Cave, Hank WIlliams, Johnny Cash, Will Oldham, Sister Rosseta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson, Susana Baca, Manitas de Plata,The Velvet Underground, Luna, Yo la Tengo, Bob Dylan, Anouar Brahem, The Acade Fire, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanely, The Black Keys, Blind Willie Johnson, Bulgarian Women's Choir, Celia Cruz, The Decemberists, Etta Baker, Ghazal, Fela Kuti, Joao Gilberto, John Fahey, Junior Wells, Kevin Johansen, Leonard Cohen, Odetta, Ojos de Brujos, Baden Powell, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Hallyday, Keren Ann, Jolie Holland, Chavela Vargas, Louis Jordan, Buju Banton, Big Youth, Horace Andy, Chet Baker, Daniel Melingo, DeVotchka, Gogol Bordello, Willie Colon, Hector Levoe, Tinariwen, The Cinematic Orchestra, James Hunter, Manu Choe, Roland Alphonso, Afrosound...
Better Off Dead, Over The Edge, How to Get ahead in Advertising, The Big Labowski, History of The World Part I.
Reruns of That 70's Show when I can get the antenna to work, The Muppet Show, Greys Anatomy, Sex and The City.
In the Skin Of a Lion:Michael Ondaatje,Isla Negra:Pablo Neruda, Romancero Gitano:Federico Garcia Lorca, One Hundred Years of Solitude:Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Langston Hughes, Silvia Plath, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston,Fairy Tales:Herman Hesse, Dylan Thomas, The Passion:Jeanette Winterson.......
They are all dead.