Mountains, rivers, trees, glaciers, snow, leaves, waterfalls, sunsets, sunrises, stars, clouds, big rocks, wild animals, especially wild horses, fishing, camping, hiking, rafting, books, writing, live music, folfing, playing hack, watching sports, the Indianapolis Colts, Chicago Bulls, UNC Tarheels, Tennessee Volunteers, Seattle Mariners, UT's fight song "Rocky Top", the Manning Family, St. Patricks day, Going to the Basement, Evel Knievel, fantasy sports, watching '24', talking to my friends, learning new things, the Himalayan peaks, going to Alaska, looking at maps, being lost, getting dirty, roadtrips, being in new places, seeing new cities, saving newspaper articles especially of culturally significant events, recylcing and preacing about conserving the environment and the harms of global warming, and making this as long as I can.
I'd like to meet:
Jesus, Peyton Manning, Albert Einstein, John Muir, Lewis and Clark, Reinhold Messner, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Eddie Vedder, and Ernest Shackleton.
Music:
Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, The Shins, Wilco, Bob Dylan, The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Dave Matthews Band, Dispatch, The Grateful Dead, The String Cheese Incident, Phish, Widespread Panic, Keller Williams, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Flaming Lips, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Gov't Mule, Xavier Rudd, O.A.R, Radiohead, Elliot Smith, Stone Temple Pilots, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Matisyahu, Rage against the Machine, Talking Heads, G. Love, Beck, Green Day, Cake, Blind Melon, Slightly Stoopid, Guster, The Two Gallants, Agents of Good Roots, The Beatles, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Shooter Jennings, The Roots, Cat Stevens, Tom Petty, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, The White Stripes, Nirvana, Bob Marley, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, Postal Service, Wolf parade, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, The Gorillaz, Against Me, Neutral Milk Hotel, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Matt Costa, The Walkmen, Broken Social Scene, Animal Liberation Orchestra, Rusted Root, Railroad Earth, Animal Collective, Queens of the Stone Age
take the which pearl jam song are you? quiz, a product of the pearljammers community.
Movies:
An Inconvenient Truth, KING KONG, American Beauty, A River Runs Through It, Easy Rider, The Big Lebowski, Caddyshack, Garden State, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,Fletch, Christmas Vacation, Anger Management, Magnolia, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Translation.
Television:
PLANET EARTH, Seinfeld, 24, Scrubs, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Weeds, Arrested Development
Books:
Everything by Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Eiger Dreams and Under the Banner of Heaven, all great books. James Redfield is one of my favorites too. He has written The Celestine Prophecy and the Tenth Insight, both great books. Anything by Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Kerouac. A River Runs Through It By Norman Maclean. Other books I have read and reccomend are "Between a Rock and a Hard Place", about Aaron Ralston, the hiker who had to cut off his own arm to save his life and "It's not about the Bike", Lance Armstrong's book about his battle with cancer.
Heroes:
My parents and Jesus. ok, Peyton Manning and Jack Bauer too.
