Writing, music, movies, stimulating conversation, travel, road trippin', fly-fishing, camping, art, gourmet cooking, discovering and sharing new things, pop culture, No-Limit Texas Hold'em, film-making, wildnerness and observing.
Music
Ever-changing, but these would currently be at the top of my CD collection: Matthew Good, Malajube, Tom Waits, Trespassers William, Eels, The Handsome Family, The Besnard Lakes, Final Fantasy, Modest Mouse, Bloc Party, Radical Face, and sooooo many more....
Movies
Again, too many to mention, but just to play along, here are a few: Leolo, Sling Blade, Umberto D, The Field, Tender Mercies, A Simple Plan, The Apostle, Hannibal, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, The Green Butchers, Breaking The Waves (and anything directed by Lars von Trier), Smoke Signals....
Television
Big Love, Dexter, The Office, Curn Your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, The Daily Show, the news, Comedy Inc., Last Comic Standing, 60 Minutes, Late Show with David Letterman, Intervention, Taxicab Confessionals, How Things Work, Dirty Jobs, Discovery channel & anything on the Documentary channel....
Books
"The Plague" by Albert Camus, "Stiff" by Mary Roach, "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" by Christopher Hitchens, and a dictionary.
Heroes
I don't believe in heroes, but if I did I might answer Jacques Cousteau.
About me: Fly on the Wall is an illustrated collection of short fiction written by me, Jason Brink, with accompanying pen and ink drawings by Jim Westergard. The book is being published by ECW Press out of Toronto and will hit shelves in the Spring of 2008.
Really, I'm a screenwriter, but this is a side project I came up with as an excuse to drink with my friend, Jim Westergard, artist extraordinaire.
Who I'd like to meet: a whole lot of interesting people with passion, big ideas, an inherent need for good music, and open minds that are always in search of having their minds blown.
