Drumming, drumming, playing drums, setting up drums, tearing down drums, looking at drums, talking about drums, dreaming about drums, songwriting, jamming, gigging, dancing, making wierd heads out of plastelina, touring, my family, my friends, riding my bike, roller blading, any kind of catch, the pole saw and the chipper, hiking and listening to really good honest music made by honest people. Going to school and learning new stuff - Have a BA in Poli-Sci and another in English. Fucking rocked my class on the economics of financial crisis presently rocking my class on international financial institutions with the same dude, Dr. Richard Kleer (Amazing prof - take a class with him you'll be glad you did!)
RUSH (fo shizzle), refused, tool, DMB, The Smashing Pumpkins, Primus, Reverend Horton Heat, The Tragically Hip, At the Drive In, The Mars Volta, Stars, Sarah Slean, Weeping Tile (Sarah Harmer), Serena Ryder, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Death Cab For Cutie and the Postal Service, K-OS, Bonobo, Cinematic Orchestra, the Quantic Soul Orchestra (Quantic), Moses Mayes... the list goes on and on. Bands which have recently caught my attention... The Decemberists (music for English majors), T.V. on the Radio, My Morning Jacket, K'Naan and of course Kinnie Starr.
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Fuck t.v. this is the best thing anyone has ever said about me: "When i'm sad i think of pretty flowers. When i'm angry i think of azure skies. When i'm lonely i think of sharp knives. But when i'm horny i think of you... in a pink bunny costume with chocolate all over your exposed nipples."
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque, A Thousand Shall Fall - Murray Peden, Village of a Million Spirits - Ian McMillan, Not Wanted on the Voyage - Timothy Findlay, Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad, Fall on Your Knees - Anne Marie McDonald
My Mom and Dad, my Sister and my Brother (and their progeny), Jody Mario, Sylvan Jalbert, Brent Jefferson, Mike Thompson, Jon McCaslin, Jeff Romanyk, Tristan Helgason, Brennan Schwartz (use the Schwartz Brennan!), Brian Warren, Chris Gervais (the baddest mofo @ L&M aka "the disgruntled goat"),Chris Madigan, Burnadette, Kyle, all my students and every other drummer that rocks it turbo + Chad Kichula cause nobody can handle a gas-powered poll saw better. ..