reading, writing, basketball, jewelry-making...oh and did i mention MUSIC???
Woody Allen - the ORIGINAL king of comedy!!! What I wouldn't give to be sixteen & living in New York right now...PJ Harvey, Tim Duncan, as well as a few other NBA ballers, Richard Dawkins, Anderson Cooper and Bill Clinton...
centro-matic, pj harvey (my wailing damsel), archers of loaf, crooked fingers, the palace brothers, will oldham, eels, the flaming lips, twilight singers, afghan whigs (anything with greg dulli's voice radiating is alright with me), nina simone, the deathray davies (my son was in the "clock in now" video - he's kicking the soccer ball at the end), i love math, bedwetter, brad, satchel, buttercup, heatmiser, elliott smith, grandaddy, beastie boys, the mars volta, at the drive-in, the rentals, jeff buckley, the polyphonic spree, sonic youth, bob dylan, prince, joseph arthur, johnny cash, stan getz, ozomatli and i'll throw some old school gangsta rap into the mix - nwa, eazy-e and public enemy...i could go on and on, but i won't...
anything woody allen - (annie hall and what's up tiger lily are favs), all star wars (fav is return of the jedi, although no one else would probably concur), all jim jarmusch - (dead man and ghostdog rock), quentin tarantino, robert rodriguez (yes, even spy kids trilogy), all tim burton (even the cheesy pee-wee's big adventure - burton-esque in its very own way), wes anderson flics, christopher guest flics, coen brothers flics-especially the big lebowski and raising arizona, hughes brothers films like dead presidents, donnie darko, scarface, evil dead trilogy, the godfather trilogy, raging bull, blood in blood out and carlito's way
nba tv (anything basketball, especially when spurs-related, curb your enthusiasm (larry david is my idea of a kinda perfect guy) and anderson cooper news
the informers and american psycho by bret easton ellis, without feathers and getting even by woody allen, fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s. thompson, tropic of cancer and black spring by henry miller, henry and june - the unexpurgated diary of anais nin, like water for chocolate by laura esquivel, woman hollering creek by sandra cisneros, last call by tim powers, junky and naked lunch by william s. burroughs and any shakespeare plays
Hunter S. Thompson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Han Solo-Captain of The Millennium Falcon