Writing, basketball, music, reading, old movies, comedy...
Everything from Basie to Bootsy: Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, Patsy Cline, the Kinks, Lee Dorsey, Buddy Holly, U-Roy, Beck, Everly Brothers, M.I.A., The Beatles, La Lupe, Joe Tex, Louvin Brothers, Solomon Burke, Dancehall Crashers, Louis Prima and Keely Smith, P-Funk, Donny Hathaway, Booker T and the MG's, Rakim, Ray Charles, Boswell Sisters, Heptones, NRBQ, Eddie Bo, Professor Longhair, Petty Booka, The JB's, Dinah Washington, Pezband, Don Drummond and the Skatalites ...And lots more...
Favorites include The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Godfather ('72), A Hard Day's Night ('64), Borat (2006), A Face In the Crowd ('57), The T.A.M.I. Show ('64), Nightmare Alley ('47), Blazing Saddles ('74), To Be Or Not To Be ('42), Waiting For Guffman ('96), Out Of The Past ('47), Airplane ('80), Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? ('57), and anything by Preston Sturges, Buster Keaton or Billy Wilder.
The Wire, Rachel Maddow, Daily Show, Deadwood, SCTV, Mr Show, Flight of the Conchords, Da Ali G Show, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Kids In the Hall, The Soup, Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman.
My many favorite authors include George Pelecanos, Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Philip K. Dick, Charles Portis, PG Wodehouse, Ruth Rendell, Peter Guralnick, Haruki Murakami, Daniel Clowes, Lawrence Block...I really have too many favorite books to list!
Bill Hicks, Krazy Kat, Preston Sturges, Mel Blanc, Richard Pryor, Ed Grimley, W.E.B. DuBois, Buster Keaton, Martin Luther King, Peter Lorre, Bill Wilson, Zippy the Pinhead...