bikes( road and fixed gear ), music, taking pictures (see www.flickr.com/photos/hoopsofdoom/), trees, wandering/riding around looking at shit, eating vegetables, cats, writing shit down, thinking, the majesty and harsh cruelty of mother nature, being enraged by irrational morons, blah blah blah blah blah
"the wizard", bike punks, other people who have sand come out of their wallet instead of money and smell like beachfire more often than not, cynics, skeptics, hobos, lurkers, those who can laugh hysterically at their own tragic misfortune, thinkers, drinkers, people with a healthy grasp of cause and effect, jerks who don't give a fuck, jerks who do give a fuck.
HIS HERO IS GONE is the best band to ever exist...period, corrupted, coldworker, cannibus corpse, thralldom, he who corrupts, the new angel corpse, terrorizer, phobia, nattefrost, excruciating terror, tsatthoggua, ABSU!!!, mysticum, uriah heep, his hero is gone, enslaved, graves at sea, mogwai, the black hand, asunder, stormcrow(crust NOT power metal!), CCR, hellshock, sanctum, skarp, carcass, acme/systral/morser, dissection, captain beyond, MEAT OF MANKIND!!!, goatsblood, a javelin reign, the book of black earth, big business, limb from limb, cephalic carnage, brutal truth, thin lizzy, celtic frost, UFO, running wild, phobia, gordon lightfoot, hightower, kreator, summoning, throcult, flesh parade, black dahlia murder, cryptopsy, high on fire, hammers of misfortune, s.t.r.e.e.t.s, pryde tiger, allfather, stray, dystopia, bathory, sargeist, rush, judas priest, tigers of pan tang, groundhogs, detestation, cattle decapitation, portishead, dead can dance, allegiance, goat semen, assuck, the swarm, black/power/death/d-beat/krust/doom/sludge/grind/metal
good grief..the fucking champs are on the soundtrack, and it's about DnD!, breaking away, quicksilver, thrashin', gleaming the cube, lord o' the rings, fire and ice, wizards,
rots your brain. except for the discovery channel, the learning channel and, most importantly, the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL!!!!!!!!!
some of my best friends are books. wade davis, richard dawkins, graham greene, paul theroux, vonnegut, joyce, tolkien, this list is gonna be too f'n long.....
bolt thrower. assassins. chris johns. tofu. the genius cooks at Bo Kong vegetarian restaurant.