Love, spirtuality, music, film, surfing, volleyball, tennis, and anything that contains truth...
um, Mark Hamill and Johnny Depp...
hmmm...that's a toughie...let's go with my top 5 singers of all time:Jeff Buckley,
Myles Kennedy,
Chris Cornell,
Marvin Gaye,
Robert Plant...top 5 albums of all time:
The Joshua Tree by U2,
The Soul Cages by Sting,
Temple Of The Dog,
Live At Sin-E (Deluxe Edition) by Jeff Buckley,
1492 Soundtrack by Vangelis...and an alternate for the top five is Second Skin by The Mayfield Four...top 5 guitarists:
Joe Satriani,
Jimi Hendrix,
SRV,
Steve Vai,
John Petrucci...much love for the rock and roll Chris crew:Chris Cornell (already mentioned),
Chris Isaak,
Chris Robinson,
Chris Martin,
Chris Whitley,
Chris DeGarmo,
Chris Squire,
Chris Gillen,
um...Chris Jericho (yeah, I'm reaching at this point),
Chris Gaines (I liked that one song...I wonder what ever happened to him...)and, now, for my list extempore of the bands and musicians that make this life beautiful...Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant solo, Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge, Mayfield Four, Citizen Swing, Cosmic Dust, it's all good), Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, solo, Audioslave), Jeff Buckley, King's X (and Jughead, Platypus, Poundhound, Ty's solo album Safety, etc), Big Wreck/Thornley, Living Colour, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Gales, Joe Satriani, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Earth Wind And Fire, The Doobie Brothers, Blue Murder (first album), Daryl Hall, Dream Theater, Incubus, Brett Hestla (Dark new Day, The Devine, The Virgos), The Who, Yes, The Eagles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Morris Day and The muthafuckin Time, U2, Sarah Mclachlan, Tori Amos, Fates Warning, Queensryche, The Police, Sting solo (up to and including Ten Summoner's Tales), Rob Halford, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kansas, Bruce Springsteen, Rick Springfield, Glenn Hughes, Van Halen, Duran Duran, Oingo Boingo, Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, Elton John, Justin Timberlake (yeah, I said it), Rush, Type O Negative, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, Badlands, Jack Johnson, G Love, Vangelis, Black Label Society and any solo Zakk Wylde stuff, and, did I mention Myles Fuckin' Kennedy and Alter Bridge? Alrighty then...more later...
and currently pimping...the muthafuckin' Gap Band, baby!!!!
Top 5 of all time (subject to change): Almost Famous, Pulp Fiction, The Princess Bride, Blade Runner, Murder My Sweet...now, time for the stream-of-consciousness staccato of favorite film titles: Pirates Of The Caribbean, Ed Wood, Manhunter, Comic Book: The Movie, This Is Spinal Tap, L.A. Confidential, The Empire Strikes Back, Out Of Sight, Ocean's 11, The Natural, All The President's Men, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, The Life Aquatic, Lost In Translation, Before Sunset, Amelie, Kill Bill, Fight Club, Fellowship Of The Ring, My Science Project, Back To The Future (first one only), Lethal Weapon (first one only), Die Hard (first one only), Citizen Kane (first one only...just kidding), Hamlet (the Branagh version, although the Olivier version is quite good as well), Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (my favorite play ever, and a brilliant movie), The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing, Fresh, Without A Clue, Last Of The Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, Collateral, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Station Agent, Elephant, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, A Fish Called Wanda, The Passion Of The Christ, Boogie Nights, Men At Work, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Serenity...more later...
24, Homicide (first four seasons being the best), Buffy, Angel, Firefly, ER (first five seasons only), Dog (because I LOVE seeing all the places I miss in Hawaii), Pimp My Ride (blame my girlfriend), Robot Chicket, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Homestar Runner (not technically television, but it's closer to tv than it is a movie), The Daily Show, Magnum, Moonlighting, Miami Vice, Mike Hammer, Remington Steele, Perry Mason, um...that's all that's coming to mind...
hmmm...Cosmos, The Elegant Universe, Ethics For The New Millennium, The Da Vinci Code, The Dragonlance Trilogy, The Legends Trilogy, Naked Pictures Of Famous People, The Dark Elf Trilogy, the Icewind Dale Trilogy, The Riftwar Saga, The Thrawn Trilogy, Calvin And Hobbes, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Hamlet, The Tempest, The Wizard Of Earthsea...favorite authors would include Raymond Feist, Tolkien, Elmore Leonard, Poe, Timothy Zahn, R.A. Salvatore, Michael Ondaatje (poetry only), Billy Collins, John Stewart, Steve Martin, Tom Stoppard, Bill Watterson...
My role model is Dick Grayson (the original Robin and currently called Nightwing)...yeah, I'm a geek, sue me...