Drums, freedom, comics/artistic literature, the beer community, kung fu, people, beaches, color, culture.
People who can teach me something. Musicians, Nerds, Beer geeks, Firecrackers, Ugly dressers, Martial artists, Artistic literature enthusiasts, Old Souls, Jerks (does not translate to Liars or Assholes), and... Steve McQueen.
RJD2, Cut Chemist, Andy C, Blackalicious, Aceyalone, Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Groundation, DJ Shadow, Orko the Sycotik Alien, Flogging Molly, Slayer, Jack Johnson, Matisyahu, The Beatles, Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Pantera, Bob, Patsy Cline, Jamiroquai, DEL the Funkee Homosapien, Slightly Stoopid, Mad Caddies, The Aquabats, The Horrorpops, Zeppelin, and so many more....
Sin City, Big Lebowski, Waking Life, The Life Aquatic, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, Fight Club, Labyrinth, Cool Hand Luke, Donnie Darko, Ghandi, 12 Monkeys, Samurai Jack, Afro Samurai.
"And all my days are trances, and all my nightly dreams, are where thy dark eye glances, and where thy footstep gleams. By what ethereal dances, by what eternal streams." -Edgar Aleen Poe. Turn Off The Idiot Box.
Artistic Literature: The Sandman, Sin City, Frank Miller's Batman, DMZ, Spawn, 100 Bullets, Transmetropolitan, Lucifer, Earth X, Universe X, Paradise X, anything from Neil Gaiman, anything from Frank Miller for that matter, Hellboy, Y: The Last Man, plus innumerable Marvel works. Lifelong hobby, gotta keep the fire burning, ya know? Reminds me there's far more to reality than reality.Books: The Celestine Prophecy, 1984, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, Rasputin, Macbeth, Beowulf, Hagakure The Book of the Samurai, Art of War, Gift of Fear, Smack, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
The giants whose shoulders I stand upon. And Batman.