Skillz
design, painting, drawing, photography and writing

Schools
oklahoma christian university portfolio center

Companies
minus five

Music
willie nelson, johnny cash, ac/dc, andrew bird, anne murray, arcade fire, band of horses, beck, belle and sebastian, bob dylan, ccr, daniel johnston, david allan coe, do make say think, elton john, emmylou harris, erasure, explosions in the sky, iron and wine, kenny rogers, the killers, lucinda williams, modest mouse, panda bear, pink floyd, polyphonic spree, radiohead, rem, ramones, raveonettes, ray lamontagne, rod stewart, the shins, sigur ros, silversun pickups, the strokes, tom petty, tori amos, u2, vampire weekend, violent femmes, the white stripes

Movies
sling blade, the apostle, napoleon dynamite, juno

Television
the office, law & order, intervention, the investigators, forensic files, most shows on the discovery channel, a&e, and pbs.

Books
my life: growing up in other people's houses, augusten burroughs, david sedaris, the fountainhead, catcher in the rye, fahrenheit 451, 1984, letters to a young poet, another bullshit night in suck city, extremely loud and incredibly close, a long way down

Magazines
new york, eye, esopus