I'm interested in politics, fly fishing, photography, hiking, mt. biking, painting, reading, hunting for the next greatest band that I can call all my own for a few months before the rest of the world discovers them.....

Any and all Punk (i.e. Husker Du, Pixies, etc.), RazorLight (before they sold out), Sugar, Franz Ferdinand, Bright Eyes (1999-2002 recordings), Peter Tosh, Marley, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, The Dead, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and so on...

Unbearable Lightness of Being, Rear Window, Vertigo, Donnie Darko, It's a Wonderful Life

Anything by Graham Greene (Power and the Glory is my favorite), The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, Grendel, Beowulf, any satirical political work