Challenging my comfort zone, skiing the the white room, music that inspires, seeing what's on the other side, going fast,jumping off, getting too close, sunrise on powder mornings, sunsets from a surfboard, human flight, traveling, my grandmothers zuchini bread, relaxing, connecting, provocation, politics, something/someplace/someone new, mountain biking, climbing, dancing really really hard, eating well, a hot tub & snow flakes on my face, waterslides on acid, skinng skiing, ice cream, hot sauce, burritos with my hot sauce, vacuous moments of integrity, and most of all the kick ass people in my life with whom I share this viscious cycle of inspiration.
Sincere people with a passion for life. Fired up, present, determined, or affected..... or at the very least pathetically interesting or funny.
Math is the universal language, but music is how all people communicate. Let me say this.... my boys Rose Hill Drive are it! Flat out. Go see them. Now, I can appreciate what's decent from most genre's that don't include country....Willy excluded. If it's got soul, skill, or makes you want to fight, fuck, or dream....any kind of ass shakin poly-ethnic dirtyrockin funky Cajun slamgrass hip-hop jam that shit whateverugunnacallit, then there's a time & place for it. In my player & who I would go see? -- Widespread Panic, Rose Hill Drive, The Grateful Dead, STS9, In Rare Form, Lost at Last, Phish, Moe., Alice in Chains, Citizen Cope, Bob Dylan, Blackalicious, ManuChao, Bob Marley, Coltrain, Hendrix, The Beatles, Incubus, Midnite, Burning Spear, Spearhead/Michael Franti, Led Zepellin, K&D, Mikyo, In Rare Form, Thievery Coporation, The Roots, Eminem, STP, MartinSexton, My Morning Jacket, Matt Reardon, Particle, Tool, Lemonjelly, Morcheeba, Beethoven, Pink Floyd, Guns n Roses, Seu Jorge, Buena Vista Social Club, Gentlemen, Ben Harper, Matisyahu, Umphrey's McGhee, Dynosaur Jr., Sublime, Rolling Stones, Ozomatli, JV, Absynth, Moe., Lorin, Absynth, Built to Spill, Galactic, The Doors, Babatunde Olatunji, Santana, Talking Heads, Jack Johnson, Prince, Johnny Griffin, Maceo Parker, Incubus, Stevie Wonder, and much more.....
Royal Tenenbaums, American Beauty, Napoleon Dynamite, Waking Ned Devine, Usual Suspects, The Big Niche, Blade Runner, What About Bob, Pulp Fiction, Like Water For Chocolate, Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, Team America World Police, Elf, Global Storming, Lucky Number Sleven, Crash, Borat (funniest shit ever!) ....
blip blip blip...Tivo only - Curb Your Enthusiasm, John Stewart & Colbert Report, and South Park.
The Prophet, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Naked, Life of Pi, The Power of Now, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior, Touching the Void, The Matarese Circle, The Giving Tree, Squallywood....
My mother for her incredible will to live these past few weeks, My Grandmother & Grandfather, Golda Meir, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Saucer Boy, Jerry, JB, Morrison, McConkey, Raimondo Laudisio, my godfather Murray, and my first best friend... Sundance.