NYHC, the bar, girls with tattoos, girls without tattoos, live music, thrift shops, playing "just the tip", complete seasons on dvd, Honey Nut Cheerios, fat laces, blatant disregard for speed limits, toys, Vitamin Water, gratuitous nudity, Italian food, hotel rooms and gas station breakfast,
Badtz-Maru, the truth, having fun and doing whatever the f--- I want to while I'm on this Earth,
Coop,
french fries, monster trucks, inexplicable bouts of insomnia, New York Yankees, Aria Giovanni, fulfilling my dream of being the American Dream.
"It's so hard for us to really be / Really you / And really me." - "Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud", David Bowie"We are, all of us, in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - "Message Of Love", Pretenders
Led Zeppelin, Cro-Mags, Jay-Z, Lamb Of God, Deftones, Scars Of Tomorrow, Turmoil, Killswitch Engage, 50 Cent, Destiny's Child, Mos Def, Earth Wind And Fire, The Agony Scene, Public Enemy, Black Sabbath, KISS, Hatebreed, Olivia Newton-John, Glassjaw, Mastodon, Jill Scott, The Sword, Iron Maiden, Frank Zappa, Bad Brains, American Nightmare, Nine Inch Nails, DJ Shadow, Fiona Apple, Jeff Buckley, Fantomas, Mars Volta, Dream Theater, Queens Of The Stone Age, Kyuss, Alice In Chains, Primus, Fishbone, Anthrax, Thin Lizzy, Rush, Aerosmith, Steely Dan, James Brown, WarZone, The Smiths, Blondie, Siouxsie & The Banshees, David Bowie, Duran Duran, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, '80s metal, '60s jazz, anything '70s.
"Dazed and Confused", "40-Year-Old Virgin", "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", "Old School", "Saturday Night Fever", "Napoleon Dynamite", "Virgin Suicides", "I Am Sam", "The Outlaw Josey Wales", "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby", "The Omen" (1976), "Rosemary's Baby", "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", "Weird Science", "Booty Call", "Kung Fu Hustle", "Ray", anything Pixar or Blaxploitation, "Deep Throat"
"Heroes",
"The Sarah Silverman Program",
"Leave It To Beaver",
"The Boondocks",
"American Gangster",
"Kidnapped",
"Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends",
"Handy Manny",
"It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia",
"My Name is Earl",
"The Office",
"America's Next Top Model",
"Forensic Files",
"Cold Case Files",
"Hot Pursuit",
"Cops",
"Family Guy",
"Law & Order:SVU",
"Trick My Truck",
"American Chopper",
Adult Swim, TV Land,
"Jackie Chan Adventures",
"Fairly Oddparents",
"Breaking Bonaduce",
"Fast Lane"
"How To Make Friends And Influence People"
(okay, I've never actually read it, but I will one day),
"Hammer Of The Gods",
"The Dirt",
"Clockwork Orange",
"Green Eggs And Ham"
John Henry Bonham,
Evel Knievel,
Thurman Munson,
Martin Luther King, Jr., my mom. (Not necessarily in that order.)