Hanging out with my friends (who all seem to be struggling musicians who hang out in bars until 3 a.m.)... Not that that is a bad thing.... :)Writing... Sex... Drinking.... Good music.... Writing about sex and drinking while listening to good music.....
I am interested in what makes gravity work... Since it seems to be conspiring against me all the time.... I also want to know what the hell nougat is.... I understand chocolate and caramel and coconut... What the FUCK is nougat....
I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet the guy who designed the packaging for CDs that makes it impossible to open them without a blowtorch.... So I can beat the crap out of him....
Other that that, I think it would be cool to go back in time and hang out with pirates... You know, raping, pillaging, drinking beer, having sword fights, digging for treasure.... I am especially interested in the pillaging part since I'm not sure what that is... but it sounds dirty...
Music:
Music: U2, Counting Crows, Collective Soul, Matchbox 20, Soul Asylum, Train, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Petty, Billy Joel, Elton John, John Mayer, Melissa Etheridge, Stevie Nicks and of course, Stevie Douglas and the Big Dang Theory! (Used to be 13 Floors High, but nothing lasts forever... except Cher).My musical tastes run the gamut from ABBA to AC/DC and that's just in the A's....I even like country music, like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Brooks and Dunn, Shania Twain, etc...No rap, though.... I think it's an alien plot to lower our intellectual capability... Besides, I can't understand what the hell they're saying....
Movies:
Favorite Movies: Fandango, Field of Dreams, Heathers, Fried Green Tomatoes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hoosiers, pretty much all of Clint Eastwood's stuff, anything by Steven Spielberg or Barry Levinson and anything with Phoebe Cates in it (especially if she gets naked... which is usually)....
Television:
Favorite TV shows: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, X-Files, The Night Stalker (which made me decide to be a reporter), Deadwood, Carnivale (although the bastards cancelled it before it was done), Friends, Seinfeld, Dexter, Weeds, Sex and the City (which I watch to try to understand women and other than the fact they drink Cosmopolitans all the time, I got nothing...)...I liked Dark Angel too and occasionally watch Charmed, but mostly just to see Alyssa Milano wearing tight sweaters and running a lot....
Books:
Favorite authors include Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, John Irving, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, James Lee Burke, Charles Dickens, Micheal Moorcock, J.R.R. Tolkien, Caleb Carr....I am working on a fantasy/comedy/horror type novel that I hope will be like a cross between Douglas Adams, Stephen King and "Thin Thighs in 30 days"....I used to aspire to write the Great American Novel so I could retire and live in the lap of luxury with my super model wife for the rest of my life, but I am willing to settle for creating the Great Central American (excluding Panama) Novel and living on Dorito's and beer.....
Heroes:
The first guy who ever drank cow milk because without his curiosity and courage in the face of certain ridicule from the other cave men dudes, I wouldn't have anything to put on my Cocoa Puffs in the morning.... And that, my friends, would be a tragedy....I also admire anyone who pursues their dream, no matter how crazy it is.... Whether it's writing a novel (like I'm trying to do), becoming a successful musician (like my former roommate), or becoming a Sumo wrestler (like my old buddy Baxter... Who was crushed to death but hey.... He achieved his dream for a couple of seconds there...)And Angelina Jolie because she's so goddamn hot....
