Oh, I fish when I can. Trout are the most fun for me, but I'll put a line in the water about anywhere, given the chance. I love lakes, but stream fishing is my favorite. I don't like to just sit and wait for a bite, I like to actively go after them. I go back to Colorado every year, it never fails to amaze.
I've trained in martial arts since I was eight. It's been a very positive and profound part of who I am. At first I used to be wholly concerned with winning personal conflicts and matches. I'd train hard to be a good fighter, but there was always something more out there I felt. I was fortunate to find an art with a warrior perspective in the Bujinkan. I found that my training there led me to better serve my community and family, going beyond just training to develop myself. At it's heart, I found a most impeccable means to perservere.Living in Las Vegas can be an interesting contradiction for someone who is geared to the outdoors, but there are some amazing escapes here. Red Rocks state park is fun and close by. Mt. Charleston has plenty of places to explore and the hike into Fletcher canyon is a must. Springs Preserve is a great place to pass time learning about the area.
Though the Strip is usually avoided by locals I am always drawn to the art that is brought there. While most of it is contrived, some of the architecture and design is elegant and sublime in places. It was someones job to make a certain part of that place beautiful and the creativity brought to that is sometimes clever and genuinely creative and I try to appreciate it.
When possible I travel, mostly on my own, but in the company of friends is best. I read.
Above all, time spent with my son is the best time of all. He humbles and amazes me and keeps me on my toes. A shirt that reads: Luckiest Man on Earth would not be overstatement.
I'd like to meet:
Dorthy Mantooth, Finkel and Einhorn, The late General Cornrow Wallace, Lum.
Music:
I listen to most anything. HUGE Pete Yorn fan. What's in my CD player now? Ringside, The Jealous Sound, Shakira, The Smiths, Sarah Brightman, Weezer, Yo Yo Ma, The Killers, Rhonda Vincent, George Strait, Gary Allen, Sara Evans, Gram Parsons, Pati Loveless, Rouge Wave, Fiest, Los Angeles Azules, Thalia, Liz Phair, Sara MacLaughlin, KakiKing, Marcy Playground, Modest Mouse, Outkast, Garbage, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, John Williams, Shelby Lynn, Dido, REM, Julieta Venegas, Death Cab for Cutie, Sigur Ros, El Ten Eleven, Rilo Kiley, Postal Service, Jenny Lewis (with or without the Watson twins), Minibar, Gone for Good, The Shout Out Louds, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rocky Votolato, The Shins, The Rolling Stones, The Veronicas, Foo Fighters, Bic Runga, Gorillaz, The Subways, Rachel Yamagata, KT Tunstall, Ryan Adams, Los Tigres del Norte, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ben Folds, Regina Spektor, Patty Smyth, Dwight Yoakam, Audioslave, Violent Femmes, Johnny Lang, Metric, Pepe Aguilar, Los Panchos, Dire Straits, The Eagles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, Basement Jaxx, Kevin Devine, Aerosmith, Andrea Boccelli, Bach, Mozart, U2, Motown, '80's music, it goes on and goes everywhere. The Las Cruces band The Liars always give a great show.
Movies:
Good ones. The Last of the Mohicans is my favorite. The Life Aquatic, Miazaki and Kurosawa, Clint Eastwood stuff, Superman with Christopher Reeves, Under the Sun (not the Tuscan Sun), Tarentino and Robert Rodriguez, most Pedro Almodovar, all of Kevin Smith's films, Star Wars, Shogun Assisin, Sphere, Magnificant Seven/Seven Samurai, Lost in Translation, Shinseki Evangelion (the series), Anchorman, Matrix Trilogy, Seven, The Usual Suspects, Confidence, Criminal, The Godfather, Open Range, Indiana Jones, Saving Priviate Ryan, Unbreakable, Mr. Brooks, The Missing, Ocean's Eleven, Ferris Buelers Day Off, Fight Club, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Fifth Element, Donnie Darko, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Village, Forrest Gump, Dear Frankie, The Sixth Sense, Stand and Deliver, Colateral, Hombre, The Patriot, The Big Lebowski, Milagro Beanfield War (filmed in NM!), Breakfast Club, One Crazy Summer, Better Off Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Music From Another Room, Cashback, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dot and the Kangaroo, The Heffalump Movie, The Muppett Movies, Goonies, Boondock Saints, Manhunter, This is Spinal Tapp, Office Space, Closer (Natilie Portman is beyond description), Facing Windows, Malena Munich, Mar Adentro, Cinema Paradiso.
Television:
Don't watch much. History channel. Futurama and Family Guy are great! Chapelle's show and Scrubs. Clone High while it lasted. Oh, I'll watch most any Law and Order if I stumble across it.
Books:
I just started my pile of books I put off while in school. Black Hawk Down, Gates of Fire, Empire, On Combat, biographies, *: Abrief History of Nearly Everything, Carl Sagan, Whitman, Blake and Wordsworth, Owl Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Biochemisty by Voet and Voet, Lone Wolf and Cub, I've always liked Where the Red Fern Grows. Anything by Massaki Hatsumi. Shel Silverstein, Gavin de Becker, Michael Crichton, Richard Bach. Books on science, the classics, too many to mention.
Heroes:
Are those who step into the breech, to get between evil and the innocent.
