Inspiring conversations, creating music, writing, rehearsing and just getting to be around my band (Mankind Is Obsolete), collaborating on various art projects, people watching, photography, admiring other artists, listening to new songs, touring, reading, holding my cat, trail-running, camping, laughing, learning, dreaming
Etta James, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, U2, Tool, Depeche Mode, New Order, Duran Duran, Godflesh, Skinny Puppy, Frontline Assembly, Front 242, Einstürzende Neubauten, Pigface, Otep, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Portishead, Sisters Of Mercy, Slowdive, Ani Difranco, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Blondie, Legendary Pink Dots, Cocteau Twins, The Birthday Massacre, Android Lust, Mazzy Star, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Indigo Girls, Rusted Root, This Ascension, Swithblade Symphony, Neurosis, S.T.U.N., Psychedelic Furs, Interpol, Velvet Underground, Bjork, Cure, Peter Murphy, Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who, Aphex Twin, Bauhaus, Rammstein, and always looking for more....pretty much anything that I can feel that has some soul in it.
Waking Life, Amelie, Fight Club, Basquiat, Harold and Maude, Red Violin, What Dreams May Come, Labyrinth, The Last Unicorn, Naked Lunch, Frida, Lost Boys, Benny and Joon, Pecker, The Neverending Story, Ghost in the Shell, Nightmare Before Christmas, Office Space, various David Lynch, Jacob's Ladder, The Crow, The Princess Bride, Being John Malkovich, Moulin Rouge, 7 Years in Tibet, Gia, American Beauty
Kafka, Clive Barker, William Burroughs, fairy tales, mythology, Sandman series, Neil Gaiman, The Alchemist, Celestine Prophecy, Tolstoy, Arthur Rimbaud, Tolkien