staying sober, playing guitar, writing raps, following a spiritual path to the best of my ability, helping other alcoholics achieve sobriety, getting tatooed and pierced, educating myself about politics, history, art, music, anything to do with expression. I love to travel, and experience other cultures. I love the outdoors, mountains, woods, deserts, plains, all of it. Put me outside on a warm day to explore and you've given me contentment.
phil elvrum, autechre, edgar meyer, tupac, vlamdamir putin, robert duvall, rotting ginsberg, bruce lee, my ancestors, some family i've never met, my future baby mama, my great-grandsponsor's sponsor.
Autechre, el-p, co-flow, aesop rock, atmosphere, Sage Francis, the microphones, boards of canada, u-ziq, Clockwork Mercury, Neutral Milk Hotel, black moth super rainbow, built to spill, Modest mouse(now even their new shit, I've been won over), clouddead,why, odd nosdam, boom bip, buck 65, myself, bach, string bass bach( edgar meyer), mistislav rostropovich, dvorak, cormega, nature, pac, nas, BIG PUN, mos def, my dad's chorus here is some IDM, followed by the arcade fire and then the microphones
A straight story, the game, beijing bicycle, Ravenous, pan's labrynth, starting out in the evening, Bringing Out the Dead, things we lost in the fire, anything benecio del toro is in, no country 4 old men, the salton sea, save the tiger, Milo and Otis, Jack Lemmon is a genius, grumpy old men, if god were Paul Newman... Nobody's Fool, there will be blood, the wages of fear, the china syndrome, the Limey, lock stock and two smoking barrels, snatch, Revolver, Gangster No. 1, the acid house, layer cake, Slacker, waking Life, boondock saints, life is beautiful, crank, dead man, cemetary man, 300, run lola run, all jarmusch(ghost dog, coffe and bogies), wes anderson(royal tenenbaums), anything with robert duvall(the apostle), WESTERNS!, christopher walken(cowbell), jack nicholson(the shining), gene hackman(pick your toes in poughkeepsie), and cary grant(peyimp), greg peck(attics are us), mindless humor(old school),Espionage-type shit, Ronin, Bourne movies, the new Bond, W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, westerns, pulp, macho shit(death wish 3, Rambo), Revenge movies, thought provoking indie shit, political shit like the battle for algiers, Ken Burns(the civil war, baseball, world war II), the occasional "blue" movie, Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa (Rashamon, Yojimbo, Seven Samurai), good anime(Akira, Fist of the Northstar, the professional, Wickid city) must see Man Bites Dog, oh yeah Star Wars of course, the Red Violin, Here are a bunch of clips...
I don't have cable right now. I don't think I want to get it, actually. When I watch TV I want to punish myself. Unless its animated and I turn it off during the commercials. Oh but I do like PBS.
Desert sloitaire, Fences, james baldwin, herman hesse, patricia cornwell, doctorow, edward abbey, bukowski, henry james, john steinbeck(cannery row was the shit, john), d.t. suzuki writing about zen, Alcoholics Anonymous, the brothers karamazov, anything that is skilled writing I can really enjoy even if I think its about something ridiculous. Language does it for me.
Nelson Mandela, my parents, recovering alcoholics,hey zues,sid goatama, bill hicks, imaginary people in my mind who sacrifice themselves for the greater good which I define in my little anarchist fantasies where it might actually do something, caveman who invented music with a stick and and an irrepressable need to groove, anyone who adheres to their values, and people who have faith against all odds. I gotta shout out J-Bones cause even tho he offed himself in doing so he watered a seed of sanity planted in me awhile ago I didn't even kno was there. I thank him every day for helping me see sobriety as a way out of bein a fuckin statistc. But we need to stop killing our selves NOW!