Making movies. Writing. Reading good books. Watching good films. Hanging with my friends. Interesting conversations. Chasing after beautiful women who want nothing to do with me...
God. (Yes, Mike, I'm stealing that from you... but it's true! It's damn true!) Alexander the Great. Sun Tzu. Jinghiz Khan. Jack London. Robert E. Howard. Akira Kurosawa. John Ford. Rod Serling. Sam Peckinpah. (Jimmny Crickets, most of these are dead folks... oh well, live people suck!) Martin Scorsese. (Hey, a live guy!) Warren Buffett. (Another one!) Umberto Eco. Harlan Ellison. Bill Gates. Clint Eastwood. Ennio Morricone. George Lucas. John Toll. Paul Newman. Woody Strode. Tsui Hark. Yuen Woo Ping. Quentin Tarantino. Giuseppe Tornatore. Gong Li. Amy Yip. John Milius. Terry Leonard. Alan Moore. Stan Sakai. Gwen Stefani. John Woo. Thomas Pynchon. Robert Anton Wilson. Los Bros Hernandez. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat. Brett "The Hitman" Hart. The Undertaker. Angelina Jolie. Don Henley. Chuck Dixon. Charlie Kaufman. Etc...
Favorite Song: Don Henley's THE BOYS OF SUMMER. Johnny Cash. Frank Sinatra. The Eagles. Elvis. Jazz. Charlie Parker. Miles Davis. No Doubt. Steely Dan. Sade. The Doobie Brothers. Richard Wagner. Mozart. Ennio Morricone. Lovage. Sting. Etc... Pretty much everything but Polka!
Anything by Akira Kurosawa, especially Seven Samurai, except Dodesukaden... just too depressing. Lawrence of Arabia. Anything by John Ford too, especially The Searchers. Ditto Sergio Leone-Once Upon A Time In The West. Same with Howard Hawk-Red River and The Big Sleep. Citizen Kane and Touch Of Evil by Orson Welles. Anthony Mann's Westerns. Budd Boetticher's Westerns. Alfred Hitchcock thrillers. Sam Peckinpah films. The Godfather I and II. The Original King Kong. The original Star Wars trilogy. Conan the Barbarian. Blade Runner. Spirited Away. Jamon, Jamon. Belle Epoque. Belle de Jour. Cinema Paradiso. Lord of the Rings trilogy by Peter Jackson. Quentin Tarantino films. Charlie Kaufman films. Film Noirs. Westerns. Samurai films. Action-Adventure. Martial Arts films. Pulp serial. Sci-Fi. Fantasy. I like 'em all... as long as they're good!
The Wire. Homicide: Life On The Street. Battlestar Galactica (new series). Firefly. Buffy the Vampire-Slayer. Angel. Miracles. Wizards and Warriors. Justice League Unlimited. Wait Til Your Father Gets Home. The Simpsons. The Family Guy. Kim Possible. Xaolin Showdown. The Jackie Chan Adventures. The Fall Guy. The Original Star Trek. The Twilight Zone. Alfred Hitchcock Present's. Doctor Who. Mission: Impossible (original). Spaced.
The King Must Die by Mary Renault. (All her historical Greek novels are excellent!) The Snopes series and Sanctuary by William Faulkner. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Call Of The Wild by Jack London. (Pretty much anything by him) Hour Of The Dragon by Robert E. Howard (Same with him, especially his Conan stories) H.P. Lovecraft. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. (Love all his stuff) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Iliad and The Odyssey. (Yes, I know they're not really books, but it's my list!) Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Raymond Chandler mysteries. Dashiell Hammett mysteries. James Ellroy mysteries. Dune by Frank Herbert. The Lord of the Rings and Similarion by J.R.R. Tolkien. A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin. Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden. Too many good books for me to list. A lot of Sci-Fi and Fantasy stuff....
Crazy Horse. Superman. Alexander the Great. Jinghiz Khan. Akira Kurosawa. John Ford. Abraham Lincoln. Rod Serling. Odysseus. Theseus. Jack "The King" Kirby. Conan the Cimmerian. Doc Savage. Bruce Lee. The Tank Man from the Tiananmen Square Protest. Muhammed Ali. Sanjuro-Yojimbo. Jayne from Firefly. The Man with No Name. Toshiro Mifune. Usagi Yojimbo. King Arthur. Brian Boru. Harlan Ellison. Henry Fonda. Kirk Douglas. Burt Lancaster. Paul Newman. Joseph Campbell. Groo the Wanderer. Homer Simpson. Al Bundy. Stewie Griffin.