Poetry, Painting, Music, Writing, Shou Tsu Do, Kali, hmmmmm...... too many to list.
Anything that peaks my interest, it has to be well orchestrated and have meaning (like all art should)-- As sorted by Windows Media Player: 311, Alice In Chains, Amos Lee, (selected) Animal Collective, Army of Anyone, Arthur Lee, Audioslave, Axis Protocol, The Beatles, Beck, Ben Harper, Bethany Sin, Bjork, Black Sabbath, Blind Melon, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Boring Ghost, Bows, Bright Eyes, Built to Spill, Bush, Cabinessence, (not much) Cake, Calexico, Cary Brothers, Charles LaVere, The Chemical Brothers, Chris Cornell, Cibo Matto, Coldplay, Colin Hay, Corey Taylor, Cornelius, Cranberries, Cream, Creddence Clearwater Revival, Critters Buggin’, CSN/CSN&Y, Crystal Method, The Cure, Dave Grohl, DMB, David Bowie, Days of the New, DeadWeight, Death Cab For Cutie, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Dissociatives, The Doors, Ectomorph, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Evanescence, Filter, Fiona Apple, Floater, Foo Fighters, F.L.O.W., Garbage, George Harrison, Great Lake Swimmers, Green Day, The High Llamas, Idiot Pilot, Incubus, Iron & Wine, Jamiroquai, Jerel, Jerry Cantrell, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Eat World, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Butler Trio, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Jose Gonzalez, Joseph Arthur, Kaki King, Led Zeppelin, Luigi Boccherini, M. Ward, M.A.C.C., M.I.R.V., Machines of Loving Grace, Mad Season, Mark Collie, Metallica, Michael Kamen, Modest Mouse, The Move, Mudvayne, Muse, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Nine Black Alps, NIN, Nirvana, No.2, The Offspring, Outkast, Paolo Nutini, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Pearl Jam, A Perfect Circle, Peter Cornett, Pigeon John, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey, Prodigy, PSFM, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Rob Zombie, Rocky Votolato, Roger Waters, Rogue Wave, Rue Royale, Rush, Scott Weiland, Sean Lennon, Sean Smith, Sepultura, The Shins, Silverchair, Simon & Garfunkel, Slipknot, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonick Malfunktion, Soulfly, Soundgarden, Stabbing Westward, Stone Sour, Stone Temple Pilots, Sufjan Stevens, Syd Barrett, Team Sleep, Temple of the Dog, Thom Yorke, Toadies, Tom Freund, Tom Petty, Tool, Travis Meeks, Velvet Revolver, Ween, White Zombie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yes, Yogert, Zero 7, Zucchero… these are some of the things I constantly have floating around my head....
Considering they're my only lasting passion besides painting, I'd say I am pretty absorbed in the art of film (stress the art here, not the Dukes of Hazard).... Hmmmm. A few flicks I like- the Alien Quadrilogy, About Schmidt, The Abyss, Adaptation, American Splendor, American Psycho, Big Fish, Big Trouble in Little China, Blade Runner, Blade 1&2 ( I don't think they made a third one.....heh, heh...*sigh) Boondock Saints (FUCKASS), Braveheart, Brotherhood of the Wolf (Mark Dacoscos, I even watched DNA for ya man) Bubba Ho Tep, The Cell, The Clearing, Confidence, Constantine (I know I know), The Crow, Closer, The Dirty Harry films (I'm sorry.... But I still love these), The Die Hard Trilogy, Edward Scissorhands, End of Days (Gabriel Byrne IS the devil! No really...) Equilibrium, The Exorcist, Falling Down, The Fifth Element, From Hell, Garden State, Ghostbusters 1&2, House of a 1000 Corpses (okay, let me explain, you want to know then fucking email me!), Dark City, Hulk, Hunted, Interview with the Vampire, I Robot, Sexy Beast, For a Better Tommorrow, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Face Off, you know, the essential John Woo, okay maybe even MI-2, Gladiator, Last Action Hero (another Guilty pleasure film I really want to remake- without Arnold) Life Aquatic, Legend, The Machinist, Man on Fire, Memento, Mothman Prophecies, Mystic River, Nightmare Before Christmas, Nightmare on Elm Street 1 & 7 (but that's it!), Pulp Fiction, Reindeer Games (some GODDAMN PECAN PIE), Resevoir Dogs, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Shadow, Shaun of the Dead, The Shining (not Stanley Kubricks Version), Shawshank Redemption, Sin, Sin City, Singles, 61*, Sleepy Hollow, Signs, Strange Brew, Tombstone, Transporter, Leon, Danny the Dog, Crimson Rivers, True Romance, What Dreams May Come, certain Michael Bay films-- Armageddon, Bad Boys, Jackie Chan flicks, the Marx Brothers films, Mel Brooks (yes, even Dracula Dead and Loving It), The silent Phantom and the Opera, the original Frankenstein, basically all of the original Universal horror flicks, Predator, the Lethal Weapon movies, Vanilla Sky, for some reason Super Troopers, Jaws, Minority Report, and of course the Indiana Jones trilogy, do I even need to mention the original Star Wars trilogy? The Zatoichi films, thanks to Mo, Donnie Darko, Enter the Dragon, City of Lost Children, The Green Mile, Usual Suspects, OldBoy, Collateral, Domino.......... many more but you get the idea.
X-Files is (was) the coolest show on the fucking planet. Six Feet Under. Mythbusters. Home Movies. Family Guy.
John Lennon,Elliott Smith,Bruce Lee,MLK, Malcom X, Ghandi, H.R. Giger, James O'Barr, Wayne Owen, Dan Inosanto.