Longboarding (LANDYACHTZ!, INSECT!, ARBOR! Echo Logic?) Disc Golf, Board Games, Puzzles, Music, Drafting, Mechanical Design, Laughing, Reading, Hiking, Contemplating my navel.
Anyone who can blow my mind, change my direction of thinking, or influence my opinion in a direct method.
Really depends on daily variables, but preferences include: Waylon Jennings, Lyrics Born, Ennio Morricone, Alice in Chains, Muddy Waters, Charlie Hunter, Fela Kuti, Art Blakely, Karsh Kale, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Krishna Das, Thelonius Monk, King Tubby, Neil Young, Tortoise, Aminama, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Nightmares on Wax, Boards of Canada, UNKLE, Cut Chemist, Friends of Dean Martinez, DJ Krush, Toshinori Kondo, Desmond Dekker, Heiroglyphics, Tha Herbaliser, DJ Vadim, DJ Food, The Rainstick Orchestra, Widespread Panic, The Pixies, Jungle Brothers, Tribe Called Quest, Ming & FS, Dr Israel, Cannonball Adderly, The Red Elvises, Augustus Pablo, Bjork, Seu Jorge, Tricky, Bill Laswell, Autechre, Sixtoo, Rob Swift, Tabla Beat Science, Jacob Miller, Burning Spear, Sly & Robbie, Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Amon Tobin, Atmosphere, The Roots of Orchis, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed you black emperor!, Sigur Ros, Lemongrass, Aphex Twin, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Himalayan Project, The Supersuckers, Built to spill, DJ Spooky (that subliminal kid), Michael Franti / spearhead, AU4, Holopaw, The Whole damn Mass Line Movement. Damn near anything from the Ninjatune catalog, Ropeadope Label, the whole quannum crew. There are billions more I cant come close to listing, so ask!
Spaghetti Westerns, I (heart) Huckabees, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Pat Garret & Billy the Kid, Wet Hot American Summer, Bullitt, The Big Lebowski, Motorcycle Diaries, Riding Giants, The Seven Samurai / Magnificent Seven, Caddyshack....
I'd just as soon not, thanks. Maybe some video games once in a while.
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck, Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Pirsig. Siddartha / Steppenwolf - Hesse. Declarations of Independence - Howard Zinn. The Cryptonomicon / Quicksilver / Snow Crash / Zodiac - Neal Stephenson. damn near any Vonnegut.
Helen Thomas, Johnny Appleseed, Krishnamurti, My mom, My sister, My Brother-in-law, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Franti, Mohandas Ghandi - "If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty. " "Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. " "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. " "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. " "I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill." RODNEY MULLEN - The god of flatland!