football (both), music, good people, furthering consciousness, learning, the earth, cool shit, perception, self-exploration, the sky, humanity, travel, life and all things contained therein.
Bill Cook (in the next life), Danny Carey, HST, Bill Maher, Mother Teresa, Karl Marx, Albert Camus, Nietzsche, Dennis Kucinich, Keith Olbermann, Stewart/Colbert, the Mandelas, Gandhi, Tupac, Marley, Fela Kuti, Hendrix and Syd Barrett.
... is my religion.
Sound Tribe (act like you know), Godspeed You! Black Emperor, TOOL, Mastodon, MONO, Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye, Pelican, Curtis Mayfield, Coltrane, Miles & Monk, The Mars Volta (and all their previous incarnations), The Fugees, Skynyrd, Minus The Bear, Modest Mouse, John Frusciante, Tortoise, Origin, Necrophagist, Teddy P & Al Green, Disgorge, Esoteric, D'Angelo, The Faceless, old school Slayer, Cattle Decapitation, Arsis, King Crimson, Death, Primus and Claypool of all sorts, Fela Kuti, Floyd, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Sunn O))), Nile, Oysterhead, Built To Spill, Barry White, Phish, Crimson Massacre, older Dillinger Escape Plan, Gordian Knot/Cynic, The Dead, UGK, Opeth, Praxis and the list goes on.
Fear and Loathing... , The Shawshank Redemption, The Wall, The Parallax View, Crash, Lord of War, A Clockwork Orange, and typical British films (Snatch, et al.).
Turn the TV off. What you hear while you watch is the sound of your own intellectual regression. And what you see is certainly not an accurate portrayal of that which really goes down in this world.
"Fear and Loathing in America" ~ Hunter S. Thompson
Anyone not afraid to think for themselves, and question authority.
R.I.P. Carl "Bill" Cook
1/7/1924 - 6/15/2007
The fuckin' coolest man I ever knew; a true OG.