...I just started reading books and playing chess again...interests include newfound nerdom.
Here are some favorites over the Years - Tool, Faith No More, Circa Survive, Dredg, Pearl Jam, The Mars Volta, Deftones, King Crimson, Incubus, The Melvins, Porno For Pyros, Pink Floyd, Meshuggah, A Perfect Circle, The Dillenger Escape Plan, Candiria, Strapping Young Lad, Pantera, Mastodon, Primus, Devin Townsend, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Killswitch Engage, Steely Dan, Miles Davis, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever (Romantic Warrior), Neurosis, Isis, Cult of Luna, Buried Inside, Red Sparrows, Explosions in the Sky, Cave In, Thought Industry, Dream Theater, Into Another, Living Colour, Failure, Mr. Bungle, Stabbing Westward, Frank Zappa, Igor Stravinsky, Keelhaul, Phish, Particle, The Disco Biscuits, Lotus, The Toadies, Smashing Pumpkins, Perry Farell solo material, Tom Petty, Metallica, Limp Bizkit, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Apex Theory, Helmet, Autechre, Yes, Lusk, NOFX (punk in drublic)...oh duh, and the Beatles. I also can't forget the incredible times I've had with my own musical endeavors, including but not limited to, East of the Wall, The Postman Syndrome, Deliciously Organic Summers (no, I didn't make that up), Ubiquitous, Nothing, and last but not least NEMESIS!!!
Spinal Tap, Seven, Old School, Supersize Me, An Inconvenient Truth, Bob Roberts, The Shawshank Redemption, The Big Labowski, American Beauty, Pi, Memento, Resovoir Dogs, Meet the Parents, Happy Gilmore, Caddyshack, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Batman Begins, Batman, The Royal Tenenbaums, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Amelie, Election, Fight Club, Cabin Fever, Thirteen, Buffalo 66 (and most other Christina Ricci movies), Run Lola Run, Farenheit 911, Buck and Chuck (most disturbing movie I've ever seen), Monster, Half Baked, and (anyone remember "The Wizard" with Fred Savage from the Wonder Years?)concert dvds consume most of my tv time
Arrested Development was the best show ever made. Intervention on A&E makes me feel better about my life.
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand, One Flew Over the Kukoos Nest - Ken Kesey, Almost anything by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About - Kevin Trudeau I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - some asshole Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Real Frank Zappa Book - Frank Zappa, Transfigurations - Alex Grey, Siddhartha - Herman Hesse, The Stranger - Albert Camus, A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman, Choke - Chuck Palahniuk Phantoms - Dean Koontz The Things They Carried - Tim O' Brien, The Postman - David Brin, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe, Lies My Teachers Told Me - James W. Loewen, Jihad Vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber::::: America - John Stewart...Ben Karlin...David Javerbaum, Magazines, Modern Drummer, The Nation,The only books I ever disliked were the shitty ones that teachers assigned, and the last Mitch Albom book I just read.