My girlfriend, meeting new and interesting people, music, working out, travel, going to the beach, acting, film, politics, history, photography, revolution and social upheaval, the rise and fall of totalitarianism, altered states of consciousness, sociology, football, white water rafting, skydiving, paintballing, rock climbing, good food, you know, the usual...
Just about everyone! Musicians, businesspeople, hippies, yuppies, doctors, mechanics, engineers, actors, whatever. Oh and nannies, piano teachers, social workers, social crusaders, socialites, models, hotel heiresses, veterinarians, vegetarians, cannibals who are not hungry, hairstylists, other writers, flight attendants, nurses, SEO professionals, witch doctors, honest priests, lovable politicians, laid back enthusiasts etc. And especially fighters and survivors. People who inspire me and people who get inspired.
Well my last band was the Mercutios. Some of my major influences are Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Sublime, Silverchair, U2, Bush, Everlast, CCR, the Stones, the Beatles, Leonard Cohen, the Offspring, Cream, the Beach Boys, Hendrix, Petty, Dylan, Wolfmother, Audioslave, the Chilis, Buckcherry, Incubus, Weezer, Pearl Jam, the Who, Neil Young, the Hip, Johnny Cash, Jack White, Floyd, Green Day, and my newest influence, Tom Jones
The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Fight Club, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Straw Dogs, Casablanca, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the Lord of the Rings, Glory, American Beauty, A Beautiful Mind, A Fish Called Wanda, Good Will Hunting, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Seven, Tarantino films, Shymalan films, Kubrick films, Oliver Stone films, Scorcese films. Recently: Apocalypto and, especially, the Departed.
The Tudors, Lost, House, Rome, Sopranos, Six Feet Under. I don't watch a lot of TV and, as you may get from the shows listed here, much of the TV I get comes on DVD. Commercials make me feel like my brain is melting. However, I was brought up to be a Seattle Seahawks fan and, whatever else from my upbringing didn't stick, I still watch every Seahawks game.
Chuck Pahlaniuk, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Thomas Harris, Mario Puzo, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Heller, Paulo Cuelho, Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde, James Clavell, John Steinbeck, Fyodor Dostoevky, J.D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell, Henry Fielding, Ken Kesey, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, John Keegan, A.J.P. Taylor, William L. Shirer, Brian Moynahan.
Jill Nemeth, Brad Saunders, Pete Rutherford, Corey Allan Hawkins, Virginia Quinnell, Care Yorke, Brad Everett Thompson, Anita Michela, Willow Lloyd.