I'll listen to almost anything except modern country (G. Brooks, T. Keith, et al--blech!!) Top 40, or modern R&B.
Aimee Mann
Air
Alice In Chains
Aphex Twin
Audioslave
Beastie Boys Beatles Beck Bob Mould/Sugar
Brian Eno
BT
Built to Spill Chris Whitley Crooked Fingers/Eric Bachmann David Byrne/Talking Heads
David Holmes
Depeche Mode
Devotchka
Dire Straits eels
Elliot Smith
Flaming Lips
Geggy Tah
Grant Lee Buffalo
hefner
Hendrix Iron & Wine
James Brown
Jethro Tull
Kruder and Dorfmeister Led Zeppelin
Leo Kotke
Lyle Lovett
Massive Attack
Modest Mouse
Morphine
My Morning Jacket
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
NEU! NIN
Nirvana
Orb
Paul Simon Pearl Jam Peter Gabriel
Phish Pink Floyd
Rachael Yamagata
Raconteurs Radiohead
Rage Against The Machine REM
Robbie Robertson
Rolling Stones Rogue Wave
Rush
Seal Secret Machines
Serge Gainsbourg Snow Patrol
Soul Coughing/Mike Doughty
Soundgarden
St. Germain
Stereolab Sufjan Stevens
Stevie Wonder
Sting (old)/The Police
Stone City Stragglers
Tom Waits Tool
U2
Ween
White Stripes
Who
XTC
Zappa
Zero 7
Pi, Fight Club, Snatch, Magnolia, American Beauty, Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Boondock Saints, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Napoleon Dynamite, Donnie Darko, Children of Men, once, No Country For Old Men. There Will Be Blood
All Coen Bros., Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Kevin Smith and most Robert Altman (RIP) movies.
Television
I've recently gotten out of the habit of watching too much TV. Some shows that I have enjoyed more recently: Heroes, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, 30 Rock, House, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica (the new SciFi one), Flight of the Conchords (or should that go under music?). Old favorites: The Simpsons, Family Guy, The West Wing, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Scrubs, Adult Swim on Sunday nights (Aqua Teen, Harvey Birdman, Sealab, et al), Discovery/History channels, Chappelle's Show
Oh, and I like Lost, too . . . fucking Lost; it makes me crazy. I made the mistake of renting the first two seasons, and now I'm hooked. It's like crack in A/V form.
Chuck Palahniuk; Tom Robbins; Kurt Vonnegut; Tom Clancy (yes, I'm a geek); Stephen King's Dark Tower series and related books.
New fave author is Christopher Moore. I've read Lamb. The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (It was f'ing brilliant and hysterical!), Practical Demonkeeping (very clever and funny), The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, The Stupidest Angel, Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Bloodsucking Fiends.
I really liked Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch series (Night Watch, Day Watch and Twilight Watch).
Heroes
David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Tony Levin, Geddy Lee, Bob Mould, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Lennon/McCartney, Waters/Gilmour, Walter Murch, Brian Eno
I try to play music every chance I get. Music is my life. Whether playing it, listening to it, seeing live shows, recording it, whatever . . . I currently play bass in a band called Catsplash. Check us out: catsplash.com or myspace.com/catsplash.
And, more recently, I am playing in this inbred, toothless, son-of-a-whore band: The Righteous Hillbillies
I am also an avid motorcyclist (read: junkie). I presently ride a 1999 BMW R1200C every chance I get. I ride about 10K miles in an average year--not a ton, but nothing to sneeze at either. Please don't get the impression that I'm a "biker dude"--I hate black clothes and only wear leather for safety. Neither am I one of those geniuses that ride at 120mph in flip-flops, sweat pants and a tank top.
I really love to travel when time/money allow. Some of my favorite locales: Smoky Mts, Fla. Keys, Outer Banks (NC), New England, Seattle. Never been to Europe, but I want to. And I'd LOVE to go to Australia/New Zealand. I try to take a week off every year and go on a motorcycle trip. I've done trips to Texas; to TN/NC/SC; and around Lake Michigan with a stint along Lake Superior (2,001 miles my door to my door in 4.5 days. It rocked!).
I'm really not a very "hip" person, but sometimes I play one on TV.
I'm one of those simple outside, complex inside kind of guys. Stoic and somewhat cold at first glance, but actually I'm fiercely loyal and nice to a fault. I'm pretty atypical for a late-twenties male (crap, I'm 30 now . . . do I have to resort to the dreaded thirtysomething?): I'm not into watching sports; I don't wear jeans; I don't drive a crappy sports car or exhibit any other "meathead" tendencies (other than my motorcycle addiction, that is) . . . I have a wonderful son named Carter that I hang out with every other weekend (which is not nearly enough).
Oh, and I can't f'ing stand "reality" TV. I'm not watching it until "The Running Man" is a real show (which I am willing to wager will happen in our lifetime).
And for the record, my real last name is not "Barule." A prize* to anyone who gets the reference (it's pretty easy).
