The Devolutionary Oath:1) Be like your ancestors or be different. It doesn't matter. 2) Lay a million eggs or give birth to one. 3) Wear gaudy colors or avoid display. It's all the same. 4) The fittest shall survive yet the unfit may live. 5) We Must Repeat
Music, art, film, yoga, kickboxing, dance, poetry, travel, tattoos, collecting and playing records, cooking, going to the beach, reading, chess
Scarlett Johanssen, Kat Von D, Mel Brooks, Dog The Bounty Hunter, Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Rick Rubin, Danny Bonaduce, Ice Cube, Willie Nelson, Howard Stern, Michael Moore, Ricky Gervais, George Carlin, Bill Maher, Led Zeppelin, Devo. Cute girls are good, too.
"New Music" -Against Me!, Mattafix, The Mars Volta, Beck, radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, Amy Winehouse, Dredg, System of a Down, Flaming Lips, AFI, Muse, Avenged Sevenfold, MCR, Band of Horses, Silversun Pickups, The Shins, Mastodon, Kanye, Clutch, Skindred, Weezer, Iron & Wine, The Postal Service, Pinback, Rancid, Dj Z-Trip, Jurassic 5, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, Spoon, Gnarls Barkley...And The "Classic Rock"-Public Enemy, Pixies, Jane's Addiction, Led Zeppelin, Devo, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground, Fountains of Wayne, Smashing Pumpkins, Sade, The Cars, Ramones, The Clash, Stevie Wonder, Billie Holiday, Slayer, Fela Kuti, Dead Kennedys, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Costello and Presley, Eminem, Run Dmc, Violent Femmes, The Who, X, The Runaways, Sex Pistols, Fear, Chris Isaak, ELO, Beck, Iggy and The Stooges, De La Soul,Bob Marley, Tom Waits, Bad Brains, Joe Jackson, John Coltrane, Black Flag, Sly Stone, Peter Tosh, The Police, Missing Persons, Gwar, Lit, Living Colour, Hall and Oates, Pantera, Ice-T, Ice Cube, NWA, Morissey, Brian Eno, REM, Magazine, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Ryan Adams, Bjork, Motley Crue, Craig David, The Cure, Daft Punk, Ozomotli, David Bowie, Drive-By Truckers, Duran Duran, Leonard Cohen, The Eagles, Willie Nelson, Squeeze, King's X, Eels, Neil Young, Nick Lowe, James Brown, Blondie, Steel Pulse, Simon & Garfunkel, Iron Maiden, Quicksand, Tool, Jay-Z, Starsailor, Ben Harper, Frank Sinatra, Fugazi, Geto Boys, EPMD, Gipsy Kings, Green Day, Chris Cornell, Fishbone, Jayhawks, Jeff Buckley, Elliot Smith, Jimmy Cliff, Hendrix, Joan Jett, Louis Prima, Bubba Sparxxx, Queen, Stetsasonic, Primus, Prince, King Crimson, Kiss, Nirvana, Offspring, Op Ivy, Beastie Boys, Tenacious D, BDP/KRS, Cat Stevens, Guns N Roses, CkY, Misfits, Black Sabbath, LL Cool J, The Residents, Faith No More, Kool Keith, Marilyn Manson, Lauryn Hill, Le Tigre, The Fixx, Mr. Bungle, Talking Heads, Billy Idol, A Tribe Called Quest, Adam Ant, B-52's, The Cult, Good reggae, hip-hop, and 80's new wave and punk, and of course much love for all the SoCal bands throughout the years that I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with - Korn, 311, Deftones, Kid Rock, Sugar Ray, Foo Fighters, The Cult, No Doubt, Sublime, Kottonmouth Kings, Powerman 5000, Incubus, Slightly Stoopid, Unwritten Law, P.O.D., Mower and (hed) pe, to name a few.
The Squid and The Whale, Rushmore, Royal Tennenbaums, Life Aquatic, Spinal Tap, Sideways, Rocky Horror, That Thing You Do!, Sin City, Ghost World, Blade Runner, Annie Hall, Fargo, Harold and Maude, Barfly, Meet The Parents, Office Space, Logan's Run, Clockwork Orange, Blue Velvet , The Dark Backward, Ed Wood, River's Edge, Heathers, Zardoz, Dawn of The Dead, Punch Drunk Love, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, A River Runs Through It, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, It's A Wonderful Life, Bad Santa, Elf, 16 Candles, Repo Man, The Shining, 80's movies, John Waters, Coen Brothers, Tim Burton, Nicholson, Scorcese, Kubrick, Deniro, Kurosawa, Bill Murray, Woody Allen, Charlie Kaufman, P.T. Anderson, Spike Jonze, most anything with Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughan, Jack Black or Ben Stiller...Recent faves - Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, Casino Royale, Apocalypto, Blood Diamond, The Departed, Grindhouse, Disturbia, Once, Michael Clayton, Year of the Dog, Superbad, Knocked Up, Idiocracy, Juno, No Country for Old Men...
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dexter, Weeds, Californication, Mad Men, Iron Chef, SNL, Project Runway, The Office, Lost, 24, American Idol, Ugly Betty, CSI, The Ultimate Fighter, 30 Rock.
Les Miserables, Autobiography of a Yogi, Confederacy of Dunces, Watership Down, Bukowski, Vonnegut, Fitzgerald, Edward Gorey, Roahld Dahl. Philosophy and Yoga books. For fiction I like modern authors Thomas Harris, Dan Brown, Ken Follett, and Dennis LeHane for the crime stuff. Just read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, Currently I'm reading Giving by Bill Clinton, Innocent When You Dream about Tom Waits, the new Harry Houdini biography, and about 10 different books by Paramahansa Yogananda. I just read both of Cookie Mueller's books about her days before and after her involvement in John Waters' movies and they're amazing and funny. I also read Vanity Fair, Blender, Rolling Stone, Spin, and all the other music mags every month.
Muhammed Ali, Charlie Chaplin, Salvador Dali, Charles Bukowski, Harry Houdini, Stevie Wonder, Mel Brooks, John Lennon, Billie Holiday, Wes Anderson, George Carlin, Bob Marley, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, Bill Clinton, Howard Stern, Paramahansa Yogananda, Richard Pryor, Chuck D, Mark Mothersbaugh