metaphysics, driving, shows, road trips, swords, porn, FNT, rock 'n roll, contemporary cultural history, smart people, sushi, Bill Hicks, beaches, spontaneity, nature, Purchase College, sitting by the Hudson River, the local bar, Manhattan, indian food, the interweb, diner hopping, writing, reading, photography, viewcameras, cookie dough, coffee and cigarettes, Photoshop, anime network on-demand, sing-alongs, ice skating, goth bars, historical fiction, penguins, photo albums, J 52, 80's cartoons, Purchase parties, Nikons, camping, graveyards, fantasy novels, the cerulean blue color of undiluted photo fix, Nintendo DS, John Hughes movies, Lord of the Rings, meaningful discourse
crayons and pencils and pens, use them all to write your own story, to color your own tale. "there ought to be a reality we can choose, it's up to us to find it" - seek it within yourself. you have the ability to make this life entirely what you want it to be, if you only take the incentive to do so. acknowledge, think, create, live. this is all a constructed reality, you know. none of this is real. not you. nor I. If this makes sense to you, then there is a slight possibility that you might be worth my time. The kind of people I associate with refuse to "lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them" and understand that man is not the shaper and master of language, but rather language remains the master of man. I'm fortunate enough to have found what evades most people - a person who loves the way I love and who loves me the way I've always wanted to be loved.
Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Finntroll, Cowboy Mouth, Bad Religion, Hank Williams, Hank Williams III, Def Leppard, Jaco Pastorius, JENNY OWEN YOUNGS, Guns N' Roses, Miles Davis, Depeche Mode, Neutral Milk Hotel, Between the Buried and Me, Silverchair, Yngwie Malmsteen, A Static Lullaby, Walls of Jericho, April Sixth, Nora, Misfits, Green Day, WALKING WOUNDED, 18 Visions, A Life Once Lost, Bedlight for Blue Eyes, THE SILENT DRIVE, Alice in Chains, Ann Beretta, Nightwish, ANGELS WITH FILTHY SOULS, Operation Ivy, It Dies Today, THE SEX SLAVES, Armsbendback, Pennywise, Rise Against, AFI, Tom Waits, the Bouncing Souls, HONOR AMONG THIEVES, August Burns Red, SOCIAL STANDARDS, Rhapsody, Shai Hulud, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, DR. HOURAI, Poison the Well, Thrice, The Lawrence Arms, THE X'S, Strike Anywhere, the Mars Volta, Minus the Bear, Avenged Sevenfold, Tool, Rush, MATTHEW POP, 311, Pearl Jam, the Smiths, the Postal Service, Refused, Thursday, CALL IT ARSON, David Bowie, Millencolin, the Weakerthans, 3 Inches of Blood, Halifax, Homegrown, Story of the Year, Blanks 77, Social Distortion, Tiger Army, Horse the band, JENNY O, Rancid, Unearth, Cursive, IRMA VEP, Bleeding Through, Blondie, ZIPPERGRIN, Howard Shore, Television, Hopesfall, Nodes of Ranvier, EVERYTHING'S RUINED, Tsunami Bomb, The Velvet Underground, Killswitch Engage, CHRIS HEMBREE and THE PLEASE DEPARTMENT, Coheed and Cambria, Remembering Never, Elliot Smith, The Cure, Every Time I Die, Johnny Cash, APOCOLYPTIC YOUTH, From Autumn to Ashes, Sublime, Children of Bodom, Elvenking, Nirvana, Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, SETH KESS, Soilent Green, Underoath, NY Dolls, Billy Joel, Modest Mouse, Fiona Apple, Metallica, Denver Harbor, Face 2 Face, Portishead,the Used, Iced Earth, Avail, Boysetsfire, JINN ABIDE, the Ramones, Goldfinger, Cradle of Filth, Emperor, CHAD EVANS. this is but a small sampling. i have eclectic tastes.
Pan's Labyrinth, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Little Miss Sunshine, Tideland, A Scanner Darkly, What the Bleep?!: Down the Rabbit Hole, Fight Club, Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, Empire Records, Edward Scissorhands, Requiem for a Dream, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, The Breakfast Club, Pride and Prejudice (BBC version), The Adventures of Huck Finn, Trainspotting, Igby Goes Down, Labyrinth, Old Boy, From Hell, Bend It Like Beckham, A Knight's Tale, LOTR trilogy, Whale Rider, I Heart Huckabees
Scrubs, the simpsons, futurama, full house, myth busters, dirty jobs, family guy, invader zim, the nanny, spongebob, anything on the history channel, and assorted anime.
I'll read anything and everything, but my favorites include Irvine Welsh's "Filth" and "Trainspotting" (gotta love phoenetically spelled dialect.), "The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho, Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina", E.L. Doctrow's "Ragtime," "American Hardcore" by Steven Blush, "Please Kill Me" by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain. plus, im a sucker for fantasy novels - Terry Brooks, Mercedes Lackey, Tracy Hickman & Margaret Weis (I'm a Dragonlance addict), the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, and of course, "The Silmarillion", "The Hobbit", "Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers", and "The Return of the King" by the amazing J.R.R. Tolkien. (yes, I am one of those Lord of the Rings dorks, and proud of it!) and I can't forget the ever handy thesaurus that became my best friend in college.
Greg. Chad. my mom. Greg's mom. Mike Rowe. Johnny Cash John Cohen. David Henningson. my cosmic siblings (Marika.Thalia.Erik)