Art, Design, Architecture, Fashion, Music, Movies, Photography, Food, Travel, Solar Power, Veggie Vehicles, Green Building, Modernism, Extreme Sports, Muscle Cars, Speed, Driving fast on highways, Apple® Computers, Collecting vintage diecast 1968 - '72 Hot Wheels® & Matchbox®, Electronic Music, Street Art, Living near the ocean or in the mountains, or on an island, Expanding my BRAiN!!...
Music:
Music is in my blood. To many bands and DJs to list... Metal, Punk, Dub, Classic Rock, House, Tech-House, Progressive, Goa and Psy-Trance, Ambient, '60s, '70s, Bossa Nova, Lounge, Disco, New Wave, '80s, Funky Breaks, Chill-Out, anything Psychedelic...
Movies:
Grindhouse, The Shining, Hair, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Bullitt, Over the Edge, Dog Town Z-Boys, Riding Giants, Apocolypse Now, Barefoot Adventure, Endless Summer, Horny for Surf, Whale Rider, To Live and Die in LA, Planet of the Apes [original], The Green Mile, Star Wars, Easy Rider, I love you Alice B Tokeless, Mad Max movies, Pink Panther [originals], It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Matrix, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, all early Clint Eastwood spaggetti westerns, James Bond with Sean Connery, Faster Pussy Cat Kill Kill!, Wizard of Oz, Saturday Night Fever, Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring, Breathless [original from 1960] , Boogie Nights, Kill Bill 1 and 2, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Willy Wonka [original], Indiana Jones Movies, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Pee Wees Big Adventure, Pee Wee Under the Big Top, Man from Snowy River, Used Cars, Harold & Maude, Titanic, One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blade Runner, West World and many others...
Television:
Nip/Tuck, Iron Chef [original japanese show], Miami Ink, LA Ink, Overhaulin, Biker Build Off, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, First 48 hours, PBS, Nova.
Books:
Tom Never's Ghost by Jack Warner. In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick. Lifesaving Nantucket by Edward Stackpole. Classic shipwreck and New England nautical history books by Edward Rowe Snow. Any book on New England Shipwrecks, the older the book the better. I mostly read everything online, Newspapers and magazines are a BIG waste of trees! I read the NYTimes.com every morning as well as browsing usatoday.com and cnn.com as well as about 15 design blogs. A few favorite magazines are Dwell, Paper and Juice.
Heroes:
US [and all other countries] Troops [I dont like the war, but I do support the troops], Evil Knievel, Andy Warhol, Indian Larry [RIP], Tony Alva, Stacey Peralta, Don LaFontaine, My professors Jerry Malinowski and Lee Dusell, People that live there dreams...
