I love to rehearse. I live for it. I'll work on anything to achieve the highest level. All the focus has shifted to color guard staging and the like. I am working harder to refine my writing capabilities (staging that is). I'm all about some school also. I'll probably take a class or two for the rest of my days just to learn something I didn't know before. For now, I am sticking with the graphic design degree. I also intend on judging indoor percussion in the near future.
..all kinds of people... down to earth, off to mars, seen a sasquatch, thinks sasquatches are a hoax, whatever, as long as they like to say "Hi" when people walk by.
enter my schizo-world: Mike Patton (anything), Primus, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Billy Cobham, Soul Coughin', Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Miriam Makeba, Karsh Kale, Squarepusher, Phoneheads, Fishbone, Gov't Mule, Johnny Cash, Tori Amos, D'angelo, The Roots, Incubus, Stevie Wonder, Ricky Skaggs, Hank Williams, Dwight Yoakam, The Neptunes, A Tribe Called Quest, Elton John, Kansas, Queen, Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps, Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps (pre-YEA), The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps, Soundtrack from Donnie Brasco, Prince, Maceo Parker, Ruben Blades, Arturo Sandoval, and even Justin Timberlake (when the Neptunes write the songs).
The Color Purple, Eraserhead, Any comedy from the Zucker Bros. and Abrams( Naked Gun, Airplane, Kentucky Fried Movie, etc.), Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski (hence: Darth Lebowski), Donnie Brasco, Edward Scissorhands, Vice Versa, The Usual Suspects, Near Dark, Robocop (highly underrated), and most of the Star Wars stuff... I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Twin Peaks is the only t.v. show I would change my schedule for.
Anything from Philip K. Dick, anything from Hunter S. Thompson, George R.R. Martin's songs of Ice and Fire series, Brave New World, The Middle East: a history, and whatever else tickles the fancy. I don't get to read much outside of assigned readings for school.
David Lynch: for making everyone ask, WTF?, George Zingali: for remarkable visual ideas, Marc Sylvester: for having the scope and vision to actualize Zingali's ideas, John Scofield: for pure, unadulterated adaptation in the face of a changing musical world, and Donnie VanDoren: for showing me a method to put all this mess together for a high technical and emotional effect. Lastly: Fred Hanchett a.k.a. Miles Bentley a.k.a. the cigarette minister: for not giving in to the cookie cutter life that stifles idea.