I like to chill out in cool bars like NoBar in North Hollywood, 4100 in Silverlake, and Golden Gopher in Downtown LA. You can find me at late nite underground parties at random lofts and warehouses listening to deep house or jungle DJs. Some things that make me happy: little Italian restaurants, blazin the chronic, giving someone helpful advice, chilling with cool animals, "roach coach" taco trucks, sipping twelve year old scotch, skating my longboard, learning to speak spanish and armenian, listening to stories from old people, raving in the mountains, college football season, making out in the rain, working out/running, barbecueing with Sauce & them, and staying in touch with my nationwide network of rad friends.
Ohio State fans. CSUN alum who remember the good ol' daze. Generally cool party people, recognize.
No particular order: Public Enemy, Sarah McLachlan, Marilyn Manson, George Michael, Jamiroquai, Sade, Everything But The Girl, Afrika Bambaataa, Jeff Buckley, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Gang Starr, Butterfly Boucher, Mudvayne, Fiona Apple, Kerri Chandler, NWA, Beck, Dixie Chicks, Def Leppard, Tracy Chapman, Korn, John Denver, Lionel Ritchie, Michelle Branch, Michael McDonald, Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Wonder, Anita Baker, Vince Gill, Mark Farina, John Coltrane, Jurassic 5, Way Out West, Indigo Girls, Beastie Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, Crystal Method, Kate Earl, Pete Rock, Zero 7, and tons more; I like any style of music when it's performed well.
True Romance, Mo' Better Blues, Basquiat, Donnie Brasco, Magnolia, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine, Pi, Boogie Nights, many others.
The Maury show. "When it comes to 4 month old Anfernee, Darnell you are NOT THE FATHER!!" This is the greatest show of all time. The best is when the guy does the C-walk and the girl like collapses on the ground. My parents are retired now and my dad really digs this shit too.
Ayn Rand's Anthem, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Lots of other random nonfiction history/government.
Woody Hayes, Thomas Edison, Lance Armstrong, President Andrew Jackson (see $20 bill), Archie Griffin, Jim Tressel, David Ben-Gurion, Malcolm X, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, Craig Krenzel, Doug Flutie, Anwar Sadat, Fredrick Douglass, W. E. B. Dubois, James "Buster" Douglas, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and lots of others. Folks had way bigger balls back then, and I'll always admire underdogs who became greater than they were ever supposed to be.