Playing music, working out, football, college football, sports in general, playing sports in general, reading books, writing words, speaking in incomplete sentences, awkward situations, paradoxical concepts, honest people with honest eyes, weathered faces, and weathered souls. Eight midday hours on deserted sundrenched beaches with nothing but my running shoes, a notepad, and a black pen. Strong voices speaking plainly in gentle tones about things that matter or that don't matter at all...Evening, morning and everything quiet that happens between. Four am stars in the dead of winter. Ideas.
Thievery Corporation, Stars of Track and Field, Snow Patrol, Rock Kills Kid, Saxon Shore, Imogean Heap, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Sunny Day Real Estate, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Reels of White Softly Flow, Sigur Ros, The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In, The Who, Bright Eyes, Cursive, The Appleseed Cast, Sufjan Stevens, The Rolling Stones, The Jimmi Hendrix Experience, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Enya, U2, Coldplay, Johnny Cash, Deathcab for Cutie, Dashboard Confessional, The Cure, Ben Folds, Belle & Sebastian, Dave Matthews, Embrace, The Velvet Underground, Tom Petty, Gavin Degraw, Robert Johnson, Taking Back Sunday.Oasis, Cave In, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Beatles, Damien Jurado, Mogwai, The Good Life, Jack Johnson, Tristeza, Andy Davis, The Indigo Girls, Converge, Elliot Smith, Bob Dylan, Doves, Josh Rouse, Mason Jennings, The Dismemberment Plan, Fugazi, Wilco, Ben Harper, Jimmy Eat World, John Mayer, Counting Crows, Zao (old school)...Handel, The Brad Mehldau Trio, Johann Sebastian Bach, Clint Mansel, Johnny Greenwood,
Vanilla Sky, Vanilla Sky, Vanilla Sky, Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Garden State, The Shining, It's a Wonderful Life, Magnolia, Meet Joe Black, The Virgin Suicides, Eyes Wide Shut, Knute Rockne All American, Office Space, Snatch, Pi, Requiem for A Dream, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Fight Club, Lock Stock and Two Smoking BarrelsAnything by Cameron Crowe, Quentin Tarantino, or Stanley Kubrick.
Between work, the beach, and my friends I really don't have much time for TV anymore.
Crime and Punishment, The Fountainhead, Seeing Things (and any other Poetry by Seamus Heaney), Beyond Good and Evil, Catacombs of Terror, Of Mice And Men, Everything That Rises Must Converge (and everything else by Flannery O'Connor), Raise High The Roofbeams Carpenters & Seymour an Introduction, The Catcher in The Rye, Twilight of The Idols, Slaughterhouse Five, Thoughts in Solitude, Blue Like Jazz, A Clockwork Orange, Till We Have Faces, Anthem, The Republic, LOTR trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, Velvet Elvis
Jesus Christ, Seamus Heaney, Jimmy Page, Ronald Reagan, Ayn Rand, Jeremy Enigk, Flannery O'Connor, Peyton Manning, Stanley Kubrick, Cameron Crowe, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Rob Bell, Thomas Merton.