I'm interested in just about everything. Golf, radio, self-improvement, spirituality, counterculture, diet and fitness, and writing.
Anyone and everyone who wants to meet me.
Beastie Boys, Beck, Sonic Youth, Blackalicious, Latyrx, Dilated Peoples, Green Day (pre-Dookie, but I still have a soft spot for the new stuff as well), Judybats, Archers of Loaf, Pavement, Depeche Mode, Cure, U2, Police, Smiths, New Order, pretty much anything gay and new wave or old-school industrial (it was the 80s, what can I say?), Wu-Tang, Cypress Hill, The Roots, De La, Tribe, Jungle Brothers, Nirvana, Wedding Present, James, Robyn Hitchcock, Kool Keith/Dr. Octagon, Prince Paul, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Stereolab, Ween, GBV, Wilco, Pizzicatto Five, Yo La Tengo, Superchunk, LL Cool J, Dr. Dre, Snoop, MMW, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Galactic, George Clinton, System of a Down, Toots and the Maytals, Foo Fighters, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Sugar, Henry Rollins, Weezer, Chemical Brothers, Smashing Pumpkins (only first two CDs), Bob Marley, old Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam (Vitalogy and earlier), ELO, Yes, Queen, Foreigner, and about a thousand other bands I'm forgetting.I have a lot of guilty pleasures, musically-speaking, and I make no apologies for them. They include (but are sadly not limited to) Bee Gees, Tom Jones, Bloodhound Gang, David Allan Coe, old-school Madonna, George Michael, Morrissey, Tina Turner, 2 Live Crew, Fat Boys, and Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince. I claim the entire genre of "power ballads" as a guilty pleasure as well, from Steelheart to Extreme. I'll also get into just about any easy-listening song on the radio up to Chicago in the mid-to-late 1980s.
City of Lost Children, Donnie Darko, Office Space, Pulp Fiction, Vanilla Sky, Singles, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, every movie John Hughes did up to (but not including) Home Alone, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Last Seduction, Blow, and so many more.
Simpsons, South Park, 24, NBA, NFL, PGA, random documentaries.
That James Patterson is one rich and personable dude who writes a mean page-turner. Same goes for Randy Wayne White (writes mostly about Sanibel/Captiva) and Carl Hiassen.
A hero ain't nuthin' but a sandwich.