Music, making noise with all manner of guitars and amps, Yoga, reading, the New York football Giants, Indian food, pretending I'll clean my apartment this week, being vegan, people watching, Grand Theft Auto, Kowloon Walled City.
Cool people
Mississippi Fred Mcdowell, Sonic Youth, Wes Montgomery, Stravinsky, The Who, Public Enemy, Hank Williams, James Brown, Creedence, Sun Ra, Little Walter, John Zorn, Naked City, Bob Dylan, Thelonious Monk, The Clash, Bukka White, The Replacements, Charlie Mingus, Funkadelic, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Cecil Taylor, The Melvins, Bill Laswell, Jah Wobble, The Minutemen, Bartok, Wayne Shorter, Husker Du, Johnny Cash, Indian classical music where the Sarod is happening. Fuck it. It's all basically the same shit anyway.I play guitar in an original band called Blackfinger. We play good originals in nice trendy places. www.myspace.com/blackfingermusic
Jim Jarmusch, the Coen Brothers, Darren Aronofsky, Martin Scorcese, comedies that are funny. (As opposed to comedies that are not funny.)
Pro Football, UFC, movies I can always watch again for the 745th time (Animal House, Airplane, Dirty Harry etc) and pro wrasslin.'
Martin Amis, Nabakov, Cormac McCarthy, Joseph Cambell, Don DeLillo, The Hatha Yoga Pradipika, The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali, and anything else about yoga.
Aung San Su Kui, Leonard Peltier, MLK, the kid who faced down the tank in Tiananmen Square and the billions of others past and present whose spirits have refused surrender when the gun of tyranny has been put to their head. People who live karma yoga without recognition. And of course anyone who has taught me music or yoga. Yoga mentors=Indu Bhardawaj, Mark Elsner, and Kino Macgregor. Music mentors=my mom and Tom Lipencott.