Wrestling with evil, drinking beer, listening to music, reading a "book" or two, watching good movies (not that shit you usually watch), thrusting myself head first back into comic books and trying to work on my own, learning about nanotechnology, fighting the better angels of my nature
People that don't suck and that smell good in my mind's nose.
Queens of the Stone Age, Joy Division, Bjork, Big Star, David Bowie, Melvins, Tool, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Motorhead, Massive Attack, Portishead, Funkadelic, Johnny Cash, Black Sabbath, Fugazi, Wilco, Sonic Youth, Al Green, Flaming Lips, Ministry, Ramones, Jeff Buckley, Hank Williams, Built to Spill, Nick Drake, Yes, Pixies, Kyuss, The Minutemen, Pavement, Nirvana, Lee Hazlewood, Stereolab, Jesus and Mary Chain, Husker Du, Sly & The Family Stone, Big Black, The Replacements, Rage Against the Machine, T.Rex, Weezer, Leonard Cohen, Catherine Wheel, The Stone Roses, The Clash, Soundgarden, PJ Harvey, Ride, X, New Order, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Brian Eno, Guided By Voices, Primal Scream, Sebadoh, Super Furry Animals, Superchunk, Marvin Gaye, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Modest Mouse, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Mercury Rev, Magnetic Fields,Emerson Lake & Palmer, Afghan Whigs, Jesus Lizard, Roxy Music, Butthole Surfers, Drive By Truckers, The Cramps, King Crimson, Gram Parsons, Fu Manchu, Nick Cave, Broken Social Scene, Death From Above 1979, White Stripes, Doctor Octagon, High On Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel, Curtis Mayfield, Yo La Tengo, Interpol, The Shins, Dinosaur Jr., Jane's Addiction, Beck, Spiritualized, Air, Merle Haggard, Eagles of Death Metal, Doves, Grandaddy, Franz Ferdinand, My Morning Jacket, Spoon, The Arcade Fire, Clinic, Low, The Who, Clutch, Mastodon, Comets On Fire, XTC, Can, Kraftwerk, Sigur Ros, Faith No More, Explosions In The Sky, The Rapture, Lodger, The Sword...and I'm tired of listing them all.
It should go without saying that like Akira Kurosawa movies. The ones that are near to my heart are Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, The Hidden Fortress, Ran & Rashomon. Also some of my favorite non-Kurosawa movies are as follows: Fight Club, Memento, The Godfather, Alien, Heat, Boogie Nights, Goodfellas, The Departed, No Country For Old Men, Chinatown, Blade Runner, Lost In Translation, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Lord Of The Rings (I-III), The Big Lebowski, A Scanner Darkly, Taxi Driver, Crash, American Beauty, Dazed and Confused, Fargo, About Schmidt, Waking Life, Election, Citizen Kane, Citizen Ruth, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Sideways, Kingpin, Being John Malkovich, Blazing Saddles, Traffic, Donnie Darko, The Empire Strikes Back, The Thing, Wet Hot American Summer, The Royal Tenenbaums, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Ghost World, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Children Of Men, and about a million others I don't feel like fucking typing right now.
The Wire, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Lost, 24, The Simpsons, The Office (Both BBC and NBC versions), Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Squidbillies, Heroes, Batttlestar Galactica, Dexter
Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Fight Club, Choke, Survivor, Lullaby, Invisible Monsters, The Stand, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, In Cold Blood, Mason & Dixon, High Fidelity, The Rum Diaries, Hell's Angels, The Gunslinger/Dark Tower Series, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Fargo Rock City
Hunter S. Thompson, Bill Hicks, Brian Wilson, Chuck Palahniuk, Matt Pike, Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Christopher Walken, Akira Kurosawa, my old lady, my brother and my sister; they are the body and spirit respectively to my mind, Dean and Gene Ween