MOVIES- horror and fantasy first but everything else too, reading, dark art especially H.R. Giger, making things, pursuing what I want, CREATING my future (it happens NOW), ALWAYS focusing on faith and hope and optimism, praying, motivating and encouraging people- especially strangers, taking long drives to nowhere, sculpting, carving, drawing, designing, metal fabrication, automotive customization, life and living in it...
...and this thing
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Jesus (I think...), all of my favorite authors and filmmakers- especially Clive Barker (again) and C.S. Lewis, Steven Spielberg, H.R. Giger, Roger Waters (or any of the Floyds), Sting, Shel Silverstein, George Carlin, Sean Connery, M.C. Escher. ...are they all in my extended network?
Pink Floyd***, Sting**, Zero7**, Crystal Method**, Portishead**, Ani Difranco*, Erykah Badu*, Tom Petty, Linkin Park*, The Roots*, Sarah Mclachlan*, Morcheeba*, NiN, Megadeath, Metallica, Casting Crowns*, The Newsboys*, 3rd Day*, Jars of Clay**, Supertramp*, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Doors, India Arie, Primus*, Soul Coughing**, Rage Against The Machine, Stevie Wonder*, Curtis Mayfield*, Groove Armada, Enya, Enigma**, Digable Planets, Lenny Kravitz*, Alice in Chains**, De La Soul, Coldplay**, Seal, Mercury Rev*, Bent**, Thievery Corporation, Explosions in the Sky**, Bonobo, Massive Attack*, etc., songs that make the sky move, anything not punk or country.
List of the greatest, not in order of preference; Matrix trilogy, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Magnolia, all Cohen Brothers- Fargo, Raising Arizona, Big Labowski, O' Brother Where Art Thou; Labrynth, The Dark Chrystal, Alien, Aliens, 3, Ressurrection, The Evil Dead, The Evil Dead 2, The Terminator series, The Abyss, Die Hard series, Tombstone, The Unforgiven, Kill Bill series, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, SOUTH PARK, Northfork, Swingers, Made, all Monty Python, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, earlier Stephen King- Cujo, Pet Semetary, Carrie, Cat's eye; Austin Powers series, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, 3 O'clock High, all the Indiana Jones movies, Legend, Once Were Warriors, Being John Malkovich, The Cell, Life is Beautiful, The Princess Bride, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Poltergeist, The Exorcist, Dune, Spaceballs, Dogma, Galaxy Quest, The Amityville Horror, Risky Business, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Liar Liar, The Neverending Story, Edward Scissorhands, Four Rooms, The Golden Child, Heat, Goddfellas, Donnie Brasco, Dumb and Dumber, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, High Tension, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, to be perpetually continued...
Too busy to watch these days, but I'm madly in love with South Park and have most of the seasons on DVD. Honorable mentions- Mr. Bean, Seinfeld, Simpsons, Discovery Channel, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office (bbc), Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead, King of Queens.
Not in order of preference: Clive Barker- Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show, Imajica, Abarat; Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Collected Short Stories; C.S. Lewis- Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters; Catherine Ponder- The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity; Rick Warren- The Purpose Driven Life; Robert R. Mccammon- Swan Song; Shel Silverstein- The Giving Tree, Where The Sidewalk Ends; Anne Rice- entire Lestat series and all Vampire Chronicles; Robert Heinlein- Stranger in a Strange Land; Stephen King- IT, Insomnia, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon; J.K. Rowling- the Harry Potter series; Dean Koontz- Watchers, Door to December, Intensity; Dictionaries; Thesauri; The Bible; to be perpetually continued...
Jesus, Clive Staples Lewis