Good times, literature, movies, excitment, women, company, music, solitude, art, swimming, traveling, powerful enemies, comics, baseball, memories (good and bad), philosophies, histories, epics, mysteries, games, being incognito, being iconoclastic, and some other things.
The 48 laws of Power :
http://www.tech.purdue.edu/Cgt/Courses/cgt411/covey/48_laws_
of_power.htm
...and these guys.
I'd like to meet:
Anyone who has something interesting to say.
Music:
First and foremost...
Dave Carducci on MySpace
Check him out. It's the tastiest ear candy and will satify your palate more than you can imagine. Don't believe me? Try it.
As far as music goes...I have very wide tastes that range all over the board and in no particular order, here we go...
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Radiohead
Porcupine Tree
Portishead
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Alice in Chains
27
Silverchair
The Dissociatives
Failure
Year of the Rabbit
Andrew Bird
Johnny Cash
Simon & Garfunkel
Sloan
Soundgarden
Sting
The Police
Air
America
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
The Animals
The Beatles
Aphex Twin
Mad Season
Minus Grover
Freezing Mingus
Massive Attack
The Muse
Nick Drake
Nine Inch Nails
Oasis
On
Patsy Cline
Paul Simon
The Beach Boys
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
The Beastie Boys
ODB
Beck
Beth Gibbons
Hum
Weezer
Billie Holiday
Billy Joel
Elton John (old stuff)
Bjork
Blind Melon
Blur
Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd
Bright Eyes
Foo Fighters
Franz Ferdinand
Frank Sinatra
Garbage
Genesis
Gary Jules
Zero 7
George Harrison
Rage Against the Machine
Elliot Smith
Fiona Apple
Tracy Bonham
Glen Frey
Golden Earing
Gordan Lightfoot
Grand Funk Railroad
Harry Chapin
Cat Stevens
The Grateful Dead
The Guess Who
Guns 'n' Roses
Helmet
The Hives
Hot Hot Heat
The Holly's
Iggy Pop
Incubus
Jeff Buckley
Jefferson Airplane
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jet
Jim Croce
John Denver
Jimmy Hendrix
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Chevelle
Primus
Filter
Chris Issak
Chuck Berry
Clutch
The Eagles
The Clash
Coldplay
Cream
CCR
Crowded House
Dandy Warhols
The Prodigy
Hall & Oates
David Bowie
The Deftones
The Del Vikings
Depeche Mode
Dire Straights
Dion & the Belmonts
Donovon
The Doobie Brothers
Drain STH
Duran Duran
Duane Eddy
Elliot Goldenthal
Earshot
Pantera
Peggy Lee
Phil Collins
Peter Gabriel
The Platters
Queen
Queens of the Stone Age
R.E.M.
The Ramones
Red Army Choir
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Roy Orbison
Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs
Sarah Vaughn
Second Coming
Santana
Samuel Barber
The Smashing Pumpkins
Snap
The Sneaker Pimps
Tricky
Soft Cell
Spacehog
Sparta
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Bob Seger
Bonnie Prince Billy
Buffalo Springfield
Neil Young
The Cure
Buddy Holly
Cake
Carl Orff
The Cardigans
Bush
Carly Simon
The Carrs
Don McLean
George Thorogood
ZZ Top
God Lives Underwater
Gorillaz
Hank Williams Sr.
Incubus
311
The Turtles
Unkle
The Coasters
Eric Clapton
Vast
Veruca Salt
The Verve Pipe
The Violent Femmes
Wally Pleasant
Wied Al Yankavic
The White Stripes
White Zombie
Willie Nelson
Zaum
ABBA
AHA
Al Green
Alison Krauss
Bad Company
Neil Diamond
Audioslave
Ella Fitzgerald
BLue Oyster Cult
Country Joe Crowded House
Devo
Etta James
Esthero
Finger Eleven
Metallica
Megadeth
Fleetwood Mac
Folk Implosion
The Flying Traps
Love Jones
Human League
James Brown
Jimmy Buffett
Judy Collins
Kansas
Kenny Loggins
King Crimson
Korn
The Kinks
Kronos Quartet
Robbie Williams
Kylie Minogue
Moby
Miles Davis
The Monkees
Nancy Sinatra
Puscifer
Ritchie Valens
Steppenwolf
Dirty Americans
The Strokes
They Might Be Giants
To be continued becasue this could go on and on and i'm tired.
Books:
The Necroscope Series - Brian Lumley
The Dirk Pitt Series - Clive Cussler
The Vampire Chronicles - Ann Rice
The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy Series - Douglas Adams
The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Catcher in the Rye" - J.D. Salinger
"Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction" - J.D. Salinger
"Franny and Zooey" - J.D. Salinger
"Nine Stories" - J.D. Salinger
"A Separate Peace" - John Knowles
"Flowers for Algernon" - Daniel Keyes
"The Lord of theRings" - J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Silmarillion" - J.R.R. Tolikien
"The Hobbit" - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Lamb" - Christopher Moore
"Practical Demonkeeping" - Christopher Moore
"Island of the Sequined Love Nun" - Christopher Moore
"Fight Club" - Chuck Palahniuk
"Invisible Monsters" - Chuck Palahniuk
"Cat's Cradle" - Kurt Vonnegut
"Mother Night" - Kurt Vonnegut
"God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian" - Kurt Vonnegut
"Galapagos" - Kurt Vonnegut
"Showgun" - James Clavell
"Gai-jin" - James Clavell
"Life of Pi" Yann Martel
"Ishmael" - Daniel Quinn
"The Prophet" - Kahlil Gibran
"The Celestine Prophecy" - James Redfield
"Pontius Pilate" - Paul Maier
"Catch 22" - Joseph Heller
"Heir to the Empire" - Timothy Zahn
"Dark Force Rising" - Timothy Zahn
"The Last Command" - Timothy Zahn
"Shadows of the Empire" - Steve Perry
"SuperFudge" - Judy Blume
"Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" - Judy Blume
"The Indian in the Cupboard" - Lynne Banks
"The Return of the Indian in the CupBoard" - Lynne Banks
"How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found" - Doug Richmond
"Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" - Chuck Klosterman
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" - Phillip K. Dick
"Against the Fall of Night" - Arthur C. Clark
"The Fury from Earth" - Dean Mclaughlin
"The Illustrated Man" - Ray Bradbury
"The Martian Chronicles" - Ray Bradbury
"Fahrenheit 451" - Ray Bradbury
"A Medicine for Melancholy" - Ray Bradbury
"Foucalt's Pendulum" - Umberto Eco
"Jurassic Park" - Michael Crichton
"Sphere" - Michael Crichton
"Eaters of the Dead" - Michael Crichton
"Lords of Discipline" - Pat Conroy
"I am Legend" - Richard Matheson
"Lord of the Flies" - William Golding
"Demian" - Hermann Hesse
"Animal Farm" - George Orwell
"1984" - George Orwell
"The Island of Dr. Moreau" - H.G. Wells
"The Time Machine" - H.G. Wells
"The War of the Worlds" - H.G. Wells
"Monsters You've Never Heard Of" - Raymond Van Over
"The Cyberiad" - Stanislaw Lem
"About a Boy" - Nick Hornby
"A Clockwork Orange" - Anthony Burgess
"Lore of the Great Turtle" - Dirk Gringhuis
"The Ninth Man" - John Lee
"Johnny Got His Gun" - Dalton Trumbo
"All Quiet on the Western Front" - Erich Maria Remarque
"Crime and Punishment" - Feodor Dostoevsky
"The Golden Ratio" Mario Livio
"The SAS Survival Handbook" - John Wiseman
"Dr. Suess Goes to War" - Richard H. Minear
"How to Rule the World" - Andre De Guillaume
"The Adventures of Ulysses" - Bernard Evstin
"The Art of War" - Sun-Tzu
"A Short History of Nearly Everything" - Bill Bryson
"How to Do Nothing with Nobody All ALone by Yourself" - Robert Paul Smith
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" - Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"Faust" - Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"The Stranger" Albert Camus
"The Hellbound Heart" - Clive Barker
"Dracula" - Bram Stoker
"Angels & Demons" - Dan Brown
"The DaVinci Code" - Dan Brown
"The Great Gatsby" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Decipher" - Stel Pavlou
Calvin & Hobbes - Bill Watterson
The Far Side - Gary Larson
Fox Trot - Bill Amend
AND A SHITLOAD OF COMIC BOOKS TOO NUMEROUS TO NAME.........
Heroes:
Some of my favorite paintings...
Caravaggio, c. 1598-99. "Narcissus"
Rene Magritte, c.1964 "The Son of Man"
Jacques Louis David, c. 1793 "Death of Marat"
Salvador Dali, c. 1948 "Les Elephants"
Anything by George Underwood.
Here are a few:
