I love singing and playing bass in my bands Children of the Grave, Paintbox and My Dark Sin, writing and reading poems, musicians' biographies and autobiographies, playing guitar, reading bass and guitar related magazines. ..
Black Sabbath, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd, the Doors, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Rush, King Crimson, Jimi Hendrix, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, the Deftones, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, the Who, A Perfect Circle, Tool, U2, Radiohead, Joe Satriani, Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Jaco Pastorius, Emperor, Arcturus, My Dark Sin, Sothis, Garden of Autumn, Nibelheim, Children of the Grave, Zippo, Hells Bells, the Scientist, Silentree, Kiss this, Tripping Flowers, Hop Frog.
Mississipi Burning (Alan Parker), the Matrix trilogy (Wachosky brothers), all Quentin Tarantino movies, all Sergio Leone movies, Frankenstein Junior (Mel Brooks), all Michael Mann movies, the Commitments and the Wall(A.Parker), the Blues Brothers and Animalhouse (John Landis), Apocalypse Now, Dracula, the Godfather I,II,III (Francis F. Coppola), Scarface, Carlito's way, the Untouchables (Brian De Palma), Shine (Scott Hicks), Bronx (Robert De Niro), Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell), Good fellas, Taxidriver, the Departed and Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese), the Deerhunter (Michael Cimino), A few good men (Rob Reiner), all comic book movies, Romanzo Criminale (Michele Placido), Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut and the Shining (Stanley Kubrick), all Denzel Washington movies, the Doors, JFK and Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone), Man on fire, True Romance and Revenge (Tony Scott), Blade Runner (Ridley Scott).
Blob.
Tony Iommi (as a musician, guitarist, and giver of doomed feelings), David Gilmour (the 1 and only), Martin L. Gore (as a songwriter), Roger Waters (as a lyricist), Jaco Pastorius (as innovator), Steve Harris (as a first beloved bass player), Bruce Dickinson (as a first and still beloved singer) , Glenn Hughes (the Voice), Bono Vox and Freddie Mercury (for perfect and unpredictable showmanship), T.S. Eliot, F.G. Lorca and H. Hesse (for 'speaking' to me in moments of need).