Hope. Love. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Self-control.You know, all the usual suspects.
Someone interested in giving me enormous amounts of money in exchange for one of my screenplays.
Andrew Bird, Andrew Osenga, Derek Webb, Arcade Fire, Mos Def, Common, Talib Kweli, Jurassic 5, Blackalicious, Iron & Wine, Josh Rouse, Josh Ritter, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Jose Gonzales, Neko Case, U2, Pearl Jam, David Crowder, Al Green, Alison Krauss, Nada Surf, Badly Drawn Boy, Ben Folds, Ben Lee, Buddy Miller, Bob Dylan, Reeve Carney, Ryan Adams, Cat Stevens, The Colour, Damien Rice, Daniel Lanois, Danielson, Sufjan Stevens, The Darkness, Death Cab for Cutie, the Decemberists, Denison Witmer, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Eels, Fiction Plane, Gillian Welch, Gram Parsons, Hal, John Davis, Coltrane and Miles, Johnny Cash, Kings of Convenience, Lauryn Hill, Levi Seitz, Loretta Lynn, Lyle Lovett, Lyrics Born, Mase, Nas, The New Pornographers, Nick Drake, Nickle Creek, The Normals, Over the Rhine, Paul Simon, Pedro the Lion, Queen, Radiohead, Dave Matthews, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, Robbie Williams, Wilco, Shelley Berg Trio, Solomon Burke, Steven Delopoulos, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Switchfoot, Talking Heads, Whiskeytown, Weezer, Ween, Thelonious Monk, The White Stripes, Gnarls Barkley
'You Can Count on Me' and 'The Apartment' are my two favorite movies. 'Children of Men' rocked my face off. After that, about a million.
I don't watch a lot of TV, other than the Daily Show/Colbert Report power hour. And Lost. And I do all that on a computer.
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, every book by Frederick Buechner, specifically all of them, any poetry by Billy Collins or Czeslaw Milosz, The End of Poverty, Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller, Democracy Matters by Cornel West, The End of Poverty, The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman, How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers, In The Bedroom by Andre Dubus, Samuel Johnson is Indignant by Lydia Davis, Farewell to Arms, All the Pretty Horses, Orthodoxy by Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, 100 Years of Solitude, The Power and the Glory, God's Politics, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges.
The cast and crew of Arrested Development.