Cycling, running,yoga, crit races, road tours, cooking & baking, scotch, sleeping, eating,art,playing the ponies at Arlington in the summer, learning David Bowie tunes on my mandolin. I'd like to learn how to surf on the great lake of Michigan...
Smart, sassy hepcats and nice folks. Those who perform random acts of kindness...
Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Fugazi, Flaming Lips, Nick Drake, John Wesley Harding, Andrew Bird, Tin Hat Trio, Joy Division, The Kinks, The Who, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, autechre, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Erik Satie. Lots more, too.
All About Eve, Rushmore, Amelie, Dr. Strangelove, The Philadelphia Story, Rear Window. Just about anything with Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart or Jack Lemmon. Most films directed by: Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Frank Capra, Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch.
Some here and there. 30 Rock, Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! appeal to me these days.
Bobke II; The Dharma Bums; The Upanishads; I, Claudius. On Bullshit. America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction.
Compassionate individuals...Audrey Hepburn, The Dalai Lama. and a few cyclists: Bob Roll, Fausto Coppi.People who signal before they turn.