"I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please-a little less love, and a little more common decency." - Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut
art, design, songwriting, playing out live , cooking, home recording, public radio, candid photography, good tea, sleeping, bowling, dive bars, rowdy rock shows, not cleaning my apartment, smokin' joe's crust, fighting a one-man war against proper fashion sense, air-drumming, trying desperately to find purpose and meaning in life, and being a giant nerd.
geeks, weirdos, artists, musicians, and people with nothing to prove.
Current heavy rotation: Bear Vs. Shark, Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start
Light: Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Bright Eyes, Elliot Smith, The Decemberists, Ryan Adams, Simon & Garfunkel, Rhett Miller, Red House Painters, Elephant Micah, A Northern Chorus, Waxwing, Onelinedrawing, New End Original, New Amsterdams, Halloween, Alaska, Liam Frost, Gravenhurst, Jose Gonzalez, Guillemots, Low Skies, Jose Gonzalez
Medium : Murder By Death, The Old 97's, Piebald, Brand New, The Promise Ring, Maritime, Taking Back Sunday, Smashing Pumpkins, Koufax, The Notwist, Alkaline Trio, Breakestra, 31 Knots, Forget Cassettes, The Get Up Kids, Hot Rod Circuit, Centro-matic, Blackalicious, The Weakerthans, Fourtet, Small Brown Bike, Say Hi To Your Mom, Elbow, Arctic Monkeys, Desert City Soundtrack, The Hold Steady, Broken Social Scene, The Walkmen
Heavy: Converge, Every Time I Die, Darkest Hour, These Arms Are Snakes, HORSE the Band, As I Lay Dying, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Kill Sadie, Secret Lives of the Freemasons, Curl Up and Die, Hopesfall, Dillinger Escape Plan, As Cities Burn, Genghis Tron
anything with good cinematography, or any movie that could be considered a "tasteless, hastily produced, poorly written, shamefully acted, utterly terrible" horror flick.
Law and Order, NYPD Blue, Upright Citizens Brigade, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Big Love, Deadwood, Father Ted, Good Eats, Molto Mario, The IT Crowd, Arrested Development, The Office, No Reservations with Anthony Bordain, The Daily Show and the Corbert Report
Rule of the Bone by Russel Banks
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Medium Is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Anything by: Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Brautigan, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahniuk, Stephen King, or Dave Eggers.
The Dramatic Works of: Sam Shephard, Jose Riviera, David Mamet and Andrew Beal...
anyone who inspires me.