Coffee; Listening to and creating music; experiencing, discussing and creating art; wine; good people; coffee; experiencing the individuality of cities and towns; Europe; delicious food; wine; connectedness; design
My wife on Sundays
The Art Institute on Thursdays.
The New York Times on Fridays.
The best minds of my generation, not destroyed by madness.
'He's not even the best drummer in the Beatles'-John Lennon, on Ringo Starr
...In some kind of particular order...
The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Portastatic, Elliott Smith, Broken Social Scene, Sigur Ros, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Waits, Silkworm, Ryan Adams, Built to Spill, Neil Young, Damien Rice, Citizen Cope, Maria Taylor, Angie Aparo, The Frogs, Lee Hester, Nate Campany, Counting Crows, Patty Griffin, Arnold Schoenberg, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, The Cure, Frederic Chopin, Bright Eyes, Rufus Wainwright, et. al.
La Boum, Pink Floyd's The Wall, The English Patient, Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, Lost in Translation, Adaptation, Schizopolis, Sex and Lucia, Paris Je T'aime, No Country For Old Men, Se7en, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, et. al.
The West Wing. PBS: American Masters.
I own a lot of art books, but I do read too...
A Moveable Feast, The Sun Also Rises, Le Petit Prince, Goodnight Moon, You Can't Take a Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum (actually, no words in this one, just pictures), Fargo Rock City, The Stand, The DaVinci Code (bad writing, good art history), On the Road, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the Old Man and the Sea...more to come!
My artistic heroes--Amy, Scott, Seth, Sara, Tomagain, Lee, Eli, Mac, Brainard, Brassell, Shawn, Garland;
My life heroes--Tony, Maggie, Patrick & Erin, Ali, Ellen, Niles, Brenden and anyone else who is doing their thing.