Art, music, writing, family life, Ireland, the dog park and rocking out.
Martin Luther (The Reformer), Neil Young, Vincent Van Gogh, Mississippi John Hurt & Catherine Zeta Jones.Also, my 1 myspace friend, Tom.
The usual suspects ... the Beatles (wow, how obscure), Keith Richards and his group, the Kinks, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, the Replacements, R.E.M., the Velvet Underground, Townes Van Zandt, Emmy Lou Harris, Vic Chesnutt, Lucinda Williams, Lisa Hannigan, Damien Rice, Elliott Smith, Drive-By Truckers, the original Alice Cooper band, Donovan ... oh yeah, and Wilco, Son Volt, Jay Farrar, Uncle Tupelo, Blue Mountain, etc.
The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Big Sleep, The Magnificent Ambersons ... pretty much any movie whose title begins with the word "the." Films by "The" Coen Brothers.
Conan, The Daily Show, Austin City Limits, The Office ... never have been able to make the commitment to any 1 hour dramas though I have been trying to follow Lost. My brother and I were really into Hogan's Heros in high school for some reason.
Goofus and Gallant, The Cat in the Hat, The Ghosts Who Went to School, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Huckleberry Finn, Flowers for Algernon, Great Expectations, Mutiny on the Bounty, Pete Townshend, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Grapes of Wrath, more Kurt Vonnegut, Mickey Spillane, a bunch of Charles Bronson flicks, The Red Badge of Courage, The Hell's Angels, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Faulkner, watching Star Wars at the roller rink in Brainerd, The Hobbit, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Flannery O'Connor, a few summers at the cabin with Hemingway and and some gin, The Tortilla Curtain, Budding Prospects, The Art of Happiness ...
The Dalai Lama, Ghandi, Vincent Van Gogh, my Dad