I'm interested in a great many things, but the short list is weight-lifting and beer drinking, although not at the same time.
Anyone. Especially if they want to talk about music, or kung-fu, or movies, or drinking beer.Of course, I'd probably like to meet just about anybody once. President G.W. Bush. I'd love meet him and say a few CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED things to him about his murderous war crimes and inability to run the country without looking like a drooling, illiterate redneck.
I think that music is important and like everybody else, I've got a whole truck load of bands that I like.But I won't be a dork and list all 5347 of them. Instead I'll give you the most important one, at least as far as influencing me.Most recently DragonForce, but historically Iron Maiden, Misfits, Metallica, Primus, Stanley Clarke, Alkaline Trio, Bad Religion, Sharks and Sailors, Johnny Cash, Elvis. I also dig Nelly Furtado and Mindy Smith (lovely voices.)We also can't forget a whole slew of Broadway musicals, Cirque du Soleil, and the Blue Man Group.
I'm not going to list a bunch of movies here, either. But I will tell you that my favorite movie is a toss-up between Conan the Barbarian and Shaun of the Dead.
The Simpsons rule. It's still clever after 20 years.
Wow. Now here is a some good information.Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and Robert Heinlein are probably my favorite authors. Most of what they write is fantastic stuff. Rowling, Gardner, Cussler, Woods, and the list goes on. You're a bit of a tool if you have a favorite author. Have multiple favorite authors. Let me be one.I read anything and everything that's not nailed down and am always buying and borrowing books.I have a silly ambition to have a library one day and it distresses me to sale books or have most of them in storage.I like to read. Period. I really don't understand folks who don't. Someone once said there is no difference between those who cannot read and those who choose to not read.If it wasn't reading, they'd call it an addiction.Also, "A Warrior Within" is a fantastic book about the philosophies of Bruce Lee. Fabulous book.I've also been reading about Buddhism lately. It predates Christianity and seems to be a system of moral logic instead of blind faith. Definitely warrants more study.
I could spend a few pages talking about heroes. I got a few of them, real fictional, and imagined, that I consider heroes.Playing bass in band doesn't make you a hero, nor does having the lack of character to sell out and kiss ass just to make a movie.If you're a drummer who loses an arm in a car accident, but doesn't give up your dream and plays anyway, that's a hero.Sacrificing for someone else makes you a hero.Sadly, being a poor bastard who volunteers to join the Army to take advantage of the GI Bill and some idiot president send you to war to die, and you do, doesn't make you a hero. You're a tragedy. Pat Tillman was a good man who died honorably for something he believed in, but he's not a hero.Heroes are important. But it's more important to correctly apply the definition.