most people attack the sea, I make love to it.
I'd like to meet:
I'll know when I meet them
Music:
These two albums are it for me right now, both brilliant, fully realized albums from beginning to end and both devastating in their own way. Black Sabbath is the best band ever created by this universe. I find myself listening to alot of old Deep Purple and Yes. Ennio Morricone, Astor Piazzola, Wojciech Kilar and Anouar Braem are regular listens when I don't want to subject my ears to the human voice. Amon Tobin and DJ Shadow get taken for a spin quite a bit, too. Realized how utterly twisted and bad-ass Deathspell Omega's "Kenose" really is and now can't stop listening to it. Blut Aus Nord is a staple. I just got Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin On ?" and "Superfly" by Curtis Mayfield and am seriously digging on them. Middian and Intronaut, to me, are the two best new U.S. bands doing their thing right now. Been rockin' out to "Rebel Yell" by Billy Idol... Steve Stevens guitar texturing rules on that one.
Randy Rhoad's guitar work on "Dairy Of a Madman" is constant inspiration for me.
Movies:
All John Carpenter - especially The Thing , Apocalypse Now, True Romance, LOTR series, Ninth Gate, Stripes, Anchor Man : Ron Burgandy, Ong-Bak : Thai Warrior, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Extreme Predjudice, 13th Warrior, Once Upon a Time In Mexico, King Arthur, Fisher King, This Is Spinal Tap, Buffalo '66, Amadeus, Ronin, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living - Dawn of - Day of - Land of - the Dead, Heat, Unforgiven, Good Bad and the Ugly, Fist full of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Crimson Tide, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Platoon, Natural Born Killers, Almost Famous, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hard Boiled, Enter the Dragon, Day of the Beast, Demons, Susperia, Seven, Re-Animator, Evil Dead series, Drunken Master II, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Training Day, From Hell, Point Break, 12 Monkeys, Body Double, Dressed to Kill, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, The Limey, Goodfellas, Copland, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Blackhawk Down, American Psycho, Rush, Ravenous, Shadow of the Vampire, Sin City, Young Frankenstein, Groundhog Day, Virgin Suicides, Rounders, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, The Last Samurai, Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, Donnie Darko, Lord of the Rings by Ralph Bashki, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Once Were Warriors, Romeo Is Bleeding, The Butcher Boy, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Return of the Living Dead, Lord Of War, 8 Mile, Hustle and Flow, Heavy Metal Parking Lot... again, same as above.
Television:
commercials are the work of evil extra-dimensional beings
Books:
Right now I'm completely wrapped up in this gi-huge-ic series by Stephen Erikson who is now my favorite SF writer.
I'm also working on some short stories by James Joyce.
Also OXM - the offical xbox magazine whenever i'm in the bathroom.
Heroes:
Kurt '80 Year Plan' Vonnegut , Hank 'The Masses Are Always Wrong' Chinanski, Bruce 'Be the Water My Friend' Lee , Sasha Baron 'Ali G' 'Social Terrorist' Cohen, Trey 'Ancient One' Azagthoth, Frank Frazetta, Tony 'Fucking' Iommi, Alex 'Goddam' Lifeson, Neil ' America's Funnyman' Hamburger, Ron Burgandy, Gene 'the future' Rodenberry, Johnny Cash, William Shatner, The Dude
