Music, writing, performing, teaching, jamming, guitar gear stuff, running, shooting, pretty days, exploring, the ocean, anything summery involving swimming, floating, or diving into water, rain, fireplaces, home, quiet, dogs, family, friends, quality spirits, coffee, tea, cooking, eating, movies and books, picking peoples' brains, learning, always learning, talking too much, spending quality time and wandering about with Julie and the dog Pearl.
Mozart, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S., Ayn Rand, Warren Zevon, my great grandfather LeVick, my grandmother Gray, Jimi Hendrix.
really broad- pretty much everything the Beatles did as a band, some of what they did individually, David Gilmour, Sigur Ros, Muse, Regina Spektor, Hendrix, Floyd, Joe Pass, Ted Greene, David Brandon, Eric Johnson, Queen, Norah Jones, Anoushka and Ravi, Joe Bonamassa, Blake Atwell, Cellus and the Loose Grip, Segovia, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, SRV, Clapton, Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, Michael Hedges, Dave Matthews, Nick Drake, Nico, Velvet Underground, Mozart, Miles, Bela Fleck, The Decemberists, Satchmo, Dizzy, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Warren Zevon, Porterdavis, Stravinsky, Otis Redding, PFunk, Dr. Dog, Edgar and Johnny Winter, Knopfler, Derek Trucks, Trey Anastasio, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Lizst, Vivaldi, Paganini, Zeppelin, Beatles, Stones, Roger Clyne projects, certain Nick Cave songs, ceratin Rufus Wainwright songs, James Brown, Elmore James, Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny Cash, Son House, White Stripes, Black Keys, Ray Lamontagne, Jack Johnson, Smashing Pumpkins, Townes, Willie, Dylan, Wilco, The Books, The Mountain Goats, Peter Gabriel, Sly, Prince, Earth Wind and Fire, Gary Clark Jr., Incubus, Bowie, Nikka Costa, Michael Jackson, Andrew Bird, RHCP, Ian Moore, Queens of the Stone Age, Robin Trower, so on so on so on.
Fight Club, The Commitments, Heat, Collateral, Bottle Rocket, Royal Tennenbaums, Shawshank Redemption, High Fidelity, Dead Man, Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Stranger Than Fiction, The Departed, The Godfather (I and II), Amadeus, American Psycho, Michael Keaton and Christian Bale's Batman, Peter Sellers' stuff, I love Harpo and old Marx Brothers movies.
Lots of HBO and Showtime shows- Dexter, Six Feet Under, Rome, Deadwood, Weeds. Battlestar Gallactica. Family Guy, The Simpsons. Cartoon Batman and X-Men. X-Files, Wonder Years.
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, Roald Dahl, Ayn Rand, Preston and Child, Chuck Palahniuk, David Sedaris, cookbooks, guitar and gear reference books, encyclopedias and dictionaries, Hemingway, Orwell, Heller.
My parents, my brother and sister, my Julie, David Brandon, Scott Faris, Charlie McInroe, Harrison Hill, BOBBY B, dream havers and followers, people who look at several different angles.