in general...

• Hip!
• Hip!
• Hooray!
• The Electronic Music area at UF
• Eight o'Clock Bean Coffee
• Planetarium. Want to spend hours trying to figure out infuriating problems? Try this site out. Or, pick up David Whiteland's book, The Book of Pages. It's beautiful.
• Watch Marx Brothers movies.
• The usual suspects: slashdot, metafilter, memepool
• If you want some ideas for new musical forms, try this list of classical Rhetorical tropes and schemes.
• Drink Good Beer, Gainesville! Stubbie Shirt Pub! i can be found either sitting at the bar or working behind it a couple nights a week.

causes

• For the last 2 years i've spent my spring break rebuilding houses devestated by hurricane katrina with the St. Bernard Project in Chalmette, LA.
• Heifer International provides livestock and other charitable donations to poor families through donations by the public. Give a flock of geese today!
• Dogs Deserve Better, an activist organization that helps rescue and find homes for dogs who have been chained thier entire lives. Adopt one today!
• PFLAG - Parents, Families, and Friends of Gay, Lesbians, and Transgendered People

books and albums

• Always great listening: nick drake, death cab for cutie, james mcmurtry, the bottle rockets, kathleen edwards, patty griffin, gillian welch, old crow medicine show scrapomatic
• Stuart Isacoff's book Temperament is a great journey through the evolution of both the piano and musical idea.
• Pretty much everything you can get in the US by Everything but the Girl will keep your car stocked with music for months. Try Temperamental and Walking Wounded.
• I recently picked up Mos Def's album Black on Both Sides. Excellent. And Busta Rhymes guests, too. What more could you want? Dope Beats Abound.
• The Black Keys: Yes, yes, yes, yes. Rool.

people i love and have had the pleasure of working with:

• Stefanie Acevedo, composer, beautiful, talented, my heart. merely coincidence that she fits first both systematically and alphabetically.
• Matt Avitable: my biz partner, and all-around mysterious and difficult to comprehend friend.
• Burton Beerman, my first composition teacher at BG.
• My former boss and good friend Ben Broening.
• Dr. Evan Chambers is a wonderful composer at the University of Michigan.
• eighth blackbird, carriers of the torch of new, hip concert hall music.
• John Harvey, fellow composer and geek, one of finest humans I know.
• Jared Karnes is a brilliant photographer, designer and purveyor of fine organic body jewelry, and a leeto d00d.
• Chan Ji Kim was my predecessor as Music 1360 instructor, and a wonderful composer.
• Suk Jun Kim is a colleague and friend at UF, and a much better composer than I am.
• Mikel Kuehn was my thesis advisor at BGSU. We geek out.
• Elainie Lillios, my former boss and composition teacher at BGSU.
• Dr. Cort Lippe, computer musician.
• Mark Lomanno is my jazz mentor and drinking buddy. met his fiancee working at the liquor store.
• My Mom, Susan McCabe and her Genealogical Research Company.
• Jake Monaco and NE3. Great friends with great grooves.
• David Ostwald: theatre and opera director
• Jamie Reilly, neurology/cognitive neuroscience, speech pathologist
• Steven Rice. My SCI Presidency predecessor, and generally hip guy. Sometimes he talks in such a street-jive, hyper-lingual slang, nobody can understand what he's saying, but we always know what he means.
• Chris Robley, lead singer of Trash Art, was kind enough to link me on his site, so here is the get-cha-back.
• Jeff Roudabush, former schoolmate and ingenius theatre techie.
• James Paul Sain, my current boss, composition teacher, and Ph.D. committee chair.
• Great friends, greater musicians: the Shanghai Quartet
• My guide in the realm of neuroscience, Linda Hermer-Vazquez. My outside committee member, she has a particular knack for provoking thought in me :)
• Adam Zygmunt is a composer and former staff member of MACCM at BGSU.