Being outdoors; biking, swimming, walking my dog, having cook-outs, or bonfires. I enjoy cooking, especially for those who do not have exquisite taste. But I like to surprise people and myself with new fun senses, whether it be touch, taste, sight, sound, smell or insite. I read consistantly and love old architecture, especially libraries. And of course hanging out with friends and family, but . . . . no, I'm not a hippie.
Anyone with something intelligent to say, or obscure . . . I have a fondness for the obscure. Oh and also Jeff Buckley.
Most everything, lately I've been listening to M.I.A., Rilo Kiley, Andrew Bird, Cat Power, Granddaddy, Anthony and the Johnsons, Death Cab for Cutie, Black Mountain, Feist, Dressy Bessy, Tom Yorke, Matt Pond, the Shins, Pretty Girls Make Graves, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the White Stripes, but my old stand-bys have been; Bjork, Radiohead, TOOL, the Pixies, Grant Lee Buffalo, Tori Amos, the Beatles, Cake, Rufus Wainright, the Cranberries, Fleetwood Mac, Coldplay, Tricky, Concrete Blonde, Soul Coughing, Suzanne Vega, Blur, Cake, Weezer, Ween, the Eels, David Bowie, Mars Volta, Bob Marley, Billy Idol, the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Elliot Smith, Patsy Cline, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendricks, Nirvana, Phish, At Stevens, Portishead . . . . the list never seems to end. . . luckily
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sideways, Harold and Maude, Groundhog's Day, Lord of the Rings, Memento, Silence of the Lambs, Wonder Boys, Fargo, the Usual Suspects, Chinatown, too lazy to type more
Lost, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, the Simpsons, Conan O'brien
Novelists: David Sedaris, (Barrel Fever and Naked), Jane Smiley (1000 Acres), George Orwell (1984 and Animal Farm), Andy Greenwald (Nothing Feels Good), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Alberto Moravia (Contempt), James Ellroy (L.A. Confedential), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye) or anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison or Edgar Allan Poe. Poets: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsgerg, Tess Gallagher, Adrienne Rich, Barrett Watten, Charles Bernstein
Keith Tamsett