music, the outdoors, sports, camping, biking, hiking, reading, mystery solving, kentucky straight bourbon whisky, prostate exams, cunnilingus, sarcasm, cheeseburgers, comedy, writing, laughing, lawn reindeer, hooked on phonics, elbow injury fetishes, family pets and peanut butter, rubbing, alcohol, boils and boil lancing, afros and afro maintenance, amassing death threats...
kurt vonnegut, amy winehouse (in re-hab of course), and tina fey
Grateful Dead, JGB, Ratdog, Zeppelin, Radiohead, Frank Black, The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Floyd, The Stones, YMSB, Talking Heads, Sublime, Al Green, The Beatles, The Band, The Flamming Lips, The Beastie Boys, PE, Jigga Man, Tony Bennett, Curtis Mayfield, Beck, Blackalicious, The Blues Bros, Iron & Wine, John Mayall, Taj Mahal, Kanye, Johnny Cash, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Old Crow Medicine Show, Rage, Paul Simon, Rilo Kiley, Santana, James Brown (RIP), The J.B's, B.B. King, Tortoise, Ween, Weezer, Sly & the Family, Bowie, Roy Orbison, NERD, Stevie Wonder, All Motown, Zappa, STS9, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Arcade Fire, Tom Petty, The Violent Femmes, MMW, Disco Biscuts, The Shins, Viva Voce, Built to Spill, The Roots....
the classics
My Grandfather, Mother, Walter Payton, Jean Valjean (subsequently Victor Hugo)