OOOOOOOOOOH lots of stuff,playing bass, music, mixed martial arts(Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Sambo, Working out at Orlando Gracie Jiu Jitsu under Jonathan Burke, and working my Muay Thai and kickboxing, also help train fighters for up coming shows), playing bass, music, playing Basketball, playing bass, watching the NY Knicks Yankees and Giants, movies, music, aaaaaaah music, mostly music, ALL THINGS TOLKIEN, taking over the world, being a bassist, music, lately cooking has regarnished my interests(I forgot I was good at it, music, skydiving (next jump is going to be 18,000 ft)music, DOIN' IT!!!, Playing and writing songs... I'M THE GREATEST SONGWRITER EVAH!!!!!, music, livin like a ROCK STAR(cause everyone tells me that I am one), music, reading the Art of War(and loaning it out) ...... Trying to achieve my Personal Legend, and always being UJOD (D & V that's for you guys)....... did I mention music?
All of you (BUT IF YOU DON'T EMAIL ME FIRST, I WON'T ACCEPT YOUR FRIEND INVITE), WELCOME TO THE FOLD....... The first round of Jagerbombs and Grey Goose is on me
I guess I like the music, ya know... I I mean I have to right? Ya know cause, cause ya know i'm a...i'm a FREAKIN' MUSICIAN!!!!!!!! As a bassist I love anything that will move your ass(like George and the P-Funk All Stars said....."SHIT GODDAMN GET OFF YO ASS AN JAM) I love the FUNK, SOUL, Motown , New York Hip Hop, ROCK(Alt, Hard,Groove, Hardcore), PUNK(not the B.S. mall kind, for God's sake I worked at CB's people.... REAL PUNK),Miles Davis jazz, Metal, Reggae, old R&B(Stevie and Al Green), Blues, ....ok seriously I can go for days about this, I've been a musician since I was like 13, I've been on the road as a performer and as tour support for acts, and in all honesty when it comes to music, in the history of music, if its been recorded or played, chances are I know it, probably have played it, and I love it.....I LOVE IT ALL!!!!!!
Ones that don't suck... Like music, I can write for days on this subject, but anything with John Cusack(High Fidelity is the story of my life, I AM Rob Gordon), The LOTR trilogy was excellent, HUUUUUUGE FAN of the Godfather trilogy(well at least 1 and 2), Goodfella's or any Martin Scorsese film, Scarface or any Sidney Lument film, any Mel Brooks comedy (Blazing Saddles, SpaceBalls...come on these are classics), any Tarantino flick (from the Resevior to the Kill Bill's), Any Terry Gilliam Flick or any Wes Anderson film (Life Aquatic is HILARIOUS!!!!!), Micheal Mann is great, Anchorman the Legend of Ron Burgandy, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Half Baked (and NO I don't smoke weed), Old School, Monty Python (classics), Big Trouble in Little China, The Blues Brothers (the original), the Ghostbusters (see the comment after the Blues Brothers)......OOOOOOOH like I said, like music, I can WRITE for days on this.
Don't really have time for the Tele, but when I do Chappelle Show, South Park, Family Guy, Scrubs, Entourage, Sopranos, the Ultimate Fighter and the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pride FC, any Yankees,Knicks,or Giants game(go New York sports teams), anything on Discovery,History,or the Food Channels, and Music Videos(if you can find any....remember when mtv and vh-1 played them?), anything funny really, cause I like to laugh, like this one skit Will Ferrell did on SNL where he was a karate instructer and tryed breaking a piece of wood, or when Tim Meadows walks in to that Doctors Office(also on SNL)and tells the family that he can't help them but he can do the robot, then does the robot, then says.."that'll be 5000 dollars", i'm laughing just writing this.... What am I talking about here?
I have many favorite books and authors.... The Alchemist, The Doors of Perception, Brave New World, Heaven and Hell (I LOVE Aldous Huxley), The Book Of The Five Rings, All the J.R.R. Tolkien books, All Douglas Adams books, C.S. Lewis, Elmore Leonard, William Blake, William Burroughs, Tom Clancy, James Patterson, Frank Miller, Ann Rule, Animal Farm, anything from ancient Greece (Illiad, Oddessy), (I hate to sound EMO) Edgar Allan Poe, 1984, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Kingdom Come, Any Batman Comic or Graphic Novel, Catcher in the Rye, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Crosstown Traffic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas(Hunter S. Thompson..R.I.P.)and so on, but my absolute favorite is Sun Zu's The Art of War...if you want i'll loan you ONE of my copies
Where do I begin?...... For music.... All Great Bassist, James Jamerson, Bob Babbitt, Stanley Clarke, Bootsy Collins, Flea, Les Claypool, Larry Graham, John Entwistle Jaco Pastorius, Kim Deal, Nate Mendal, Tim Cummerford, Duff McKagan, Tom Hamilton, Mike Dirnt, Norwood Fisher, Che from Jimmie's Chicken Shack.... this list is long, Other musicians.... Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Chuck D and Public Enemy, Red Hot Chili Peppers,Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters,Chris Cornell and Audioslave, Bono and U2, Bob Marley, The Ramones, Iggy and the Stooges, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Johnson, Jane's Addiction, Velvet Revolver, Guns and Roses, Aerosmith, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Otis Redding, Earth Wind and Fire, Miles Davis, The Funk Brothers, George Clinton and the P-Funk, Led Zepplin, QUEEN (God Bless Freddie Mercury), The WHO, Tool, Josh Todd and Buckcherry, Bernard Fowler and Nicklebag, The Rolling Stones, Mike Ness and Social Distortion, Sublime, Fishbone, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Nirvana, Green Day, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Zach de la Rocha, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Black Sheep, The Pixies, Cheap Trick, Lou Reed, John Lennon, Paul McCarthy.... Oh hell The Beatles...This list is everlong also.... Others.....Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Micheal Jordan, Rickson Gracie, Royce Gracie, Muhammad Ali, Tito Ortiz, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Che Guevara (not cause of the bullshit "he's cool with the Hot Topic kids" reason, Cause I respect his political agenda and his fighting to free Cuba), Edward R. Murrow, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Miyamoto Musashi, Bruce Lee, Robert Evans, Robert DeNiro, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Bob Kane, Alex Ross, Jim Lee, Frank Miller, Batman, My Crazy Fuckin Family..... And anybody who has ever stepped up in the face of great oppression, anyone who has challenged the governments, anyone who is willing to die fighting rather than living on their knees begging, anyone who is willing to ask the question WHY?, anyone who is fighting censorship, anyone who has fought for true love and is willing to die for it (in a non terrorist fashion), The Freedom Fighters and those who choose a side and stick with it.