Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Old Crow Medicine Show, Steve Earl, The Roots, Gang Starr, R.L Burnside, The Black Keys, Clutch, Manu Chao, Mexican Institute of Sound, Marvin Gaye, honky tonk and outlaw country.
Favourite Books
On Writing Well, The Art of Happiness, The American Boy's Handy Book (if you have a kid, get this book), One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible and My Family and Other Animals.
Favourite Writers
Gerald Durrell, Dave Eggers, William Zinser, Peter Elbow, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Tools of the Trade
Pen and pad, handmade clay shaping tools, found objects that can survive in the oven.
Other Interests
The ideal, the sublime and the macabre.