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"...because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
- Jack Kerouac, On The Road
Bob Marley (stands above all others), Tom Petty, Sublime, A Static Lullaby (love to the homie Joe!!), Misfits, Danzig, Black Eyed Peas, Hieroglyphics, Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Cake, Credence Clearwater Revival (another one that's right at the top!), Death Cab for Cutie, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy (unoriginal but catchy ya?), George Michael, the one and only Glassjaw (and yes I have a GJ tattoo!), Gorillaz, Green Day, Incubus, Jimmy Eat World, Kanye, Lostprophets, Marilyn Manson, Mike Jones, My Chemical Romance, Nelly, Nirvana (again, right at the top, and along with sublime, my fave to sing along to), Pennywise (old stuff), Bad Religion (old stuff again), AFI, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Phil Collins, Portishead, Poison the Well, Rage Against the Machine (and yes I did see them live before the end), Ramones, Sex Pistols, Clash, the Refused, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Santana (!!!awesome!!!), She Wants Revenge (only new thing I've really gotten into lately), Sneaker Pimps, Story of the Year (friends of mine and cool guys), Taproot, Thrice, Thursday, The Used, Veda (recently heard them live and been in love ever since, search em, they're incredible), Avenged Sevenfold (one of the few bands where I can listen to every album, all the way through, without skipping around or getting bored). Of course all the classics from Pac and Biggie, NWA, and we can't forget Public Enemy (I believe that It takes a nation of millions to hold us back is one of the most significant records in the last 30 years). Like most people I listen to a small amount of recent commercial hip-hop although I tend to get played out on this stuff really fast - but it's great for a month or so. WEST SIDE CONNECTION (and yeah I did party en Mehico with Dub C!)!! As far as electronic stuff I get into a little jungle/drum-n-bass, mostly darker downbeat kinda stuff, real moody shit. As always I know I am leaving a lot of stuff out, there are probably more bands that should be listed and aren't than are actually listed. But this should give a small sampling of my musical tastes.....
Fight Club, Boondock Saints, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, American History X, Blow, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, Seven, Goodfellas, and of course, in the immortal words of P Diddy himself, "motherfucking SCARFACE!"
To be honest, I've watched barely any TV lately. I LOVE Heroes, Lost, and a few other shows, but I'm just too busy most of the time to catch them every week - and I hate skipping an episode, when you watch the next one it's like you skipped a chapter in a book! I need to get Tivo. Or just buy the DVDs of all my favorite shows...
Dr. Theodore Von Karman, a prominent aerodynamicist in mid-20th century, once told his assistant: "When you are speaking to technically illiterate people you must resort to the plausible falsehood instead of the difficult truth."
I read a LOT of books. Lately my big kick has been alternate history or historical fiction, along with a lot of dark, post-apocolyptic sci-fi. I've been obsessed with hard cyberpunk-style fiction since I was about twelve - anything by William Gibson (but Neuromancer, Burning Chrome, and Count Zero hold a special place in my heart, although the newer stuff is still incredible), also Walter John Williams (Hardwired is incredible, I've read it at least ten times...), Bruce Sterling (mainly his collections, like Mirrorshades and Globalhead, and I don't know if you would really consider it CP, but the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons is pretty incredible, although I just picked up his latest work and wasn't so impressed (although I'm only five chapters in). If you'd like to learn more about the cyberpunk genre, there's an excellent article on Wikipedia .
But the alternate history/historical fiction has been big lately. Started out with Harry Turtledove (too many novels to list, this guy must write like a maniac!) and have recently been enthralled by some of the latest stuff from an amazing author named SM Stirling. Really riveting, can't put it down kinda of shit.
If you're into SF, of course, you have to appreciate the 'old masters', so here's my favorites there. Bradbury of course, Neil Gaiman, Robert Heinlein (if you've only seen the movie, you're gonna think I'm retared, but honestly Starship Troopers is one of the best military-based SF novels I've ever read. Sort of like a far-future Red Badge of Courage), Orwell, Orson Scott Card (the entire Ender's Game series is incredible beyond description).
And then of course there's the classics... The Aeneid (Virgil), The Arabian Nights, anything and everything Dostoevsky ever wrote (even though his paragraphs make you feel like you're wading through quicksand, mentally), Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham), again anything and everything by Tolstoy (I got my obsession for Russian authors from my grandma!), The Art of War (Sun Tzu), some Dickens (but only when I'm in a certain mood), Candide (Voltaire), The Deerslayer (James Fenimore Cooper), Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes), ANYTHING by Poe (love that dark shit, can you tell yet?), The Four Feathers (A.E.W. Mason), Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), The Inferno (Dante), Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott), The Jungle (Upton Sinclair), The Odyssey (Homer), The Prince (Machiavelli), The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crance), Republic (Plato), Walden and Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau),.
That's all I could come up with based on a quick bookshelf scan, I have a lot more books in storage boxes that I can't even think of right now...
CHARLES MADRID, Alex Zanardi, Wayne Rainey, Colin Chapman....