Loves: The white sky of winter, finger pointing, hard work, epistemology, a nice Merlot, hand-crafted things, philosphy (the real thing, not that new-age bullshit) Politics, Art, Graphic Design, Music, Secularism, Freethought, Justice, and bringing the hammer down.
Hates: Weakness, Fear, Insecurity, Dependence, Ignorance, Gluttonous Consumerism, Social Selfishness, Intellectual Laziness, Mtv (spelled empty v), Religious types and other fascists.
Bands, new clients, new friends, old friends, and interesting people in general.
This is what God sounds like:
The Who.
Alot of metal and rock you've probably never heard of. Anything creative, intense, or intelligent. So definitely no rap or country.
Conan the Barbarian, City of Lost Children, Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, 3:10 to Yuma, An Inconvenient Truth, The Corporation, The Sting, 300, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Transformers, Mirrormask, V for Vendetta, Batman Begins, and about a hundred others.
Scrubs, Metalocalypse, MST3K, Adult Swim sucks anymore. I try not to watch too much TV. It always makes me feel like I should be doing something else.
Everything by George Orwell, especially 1984, most titles by Susan Jacoby, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Thomas Paine, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Mary Roach. I'm trying to broaden my reading spectrum presently. Suggestions welcome, but no promises made.
Kenny Hammitt, Daniel Bratton, & Matt Dougherty. These men make me want to be a better musician and a better person
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Paine, John Entwistle, Al Gore, George Orwell, Bill Maher, Henry Rollins, Niklas Sundin, Keith Olbermann, Alphonse Mucha, Robert Ingersoll, Dave McKean, Friedrich Neitzche, James Hetfield, Alex Ross, Berni Wrightson, Neal Adams, Mike Mignola, Charles Dana Gibson, Thom Hartman, Clint Eastwood, Eddie Izzard, George Carlin, Frank Frazetta, Hellboy, Batman, and Optimus Prime.