My wife. Other than that, I like music, computers, and cars. Doesn't everybody? Try to get through a day without them. I also enjoy my work. I have some seriously badass folks workin' with me... it's cool. And if my employer ever were to finally figure out I'm a moron and fire me, I'm selling all my stuff and going drag racing. That's that.
Danny Wilde. Dan Reed. Jonatha Brooke. Bob Clearmountain. Andy Summers. Cyndi Lauper. Pat Torpey. Maybe most of all: Butch Walker. Support Butch below:
In absolutely NO semblance of order (see: "eclectic"): Van Halen, Cheap Trick, Three Days' Grace, Magna-Fi, Mike Pelletier, The Knack, Thunder, Gun, Nik Kershaw, Power Station, In For The Kill, Fungo Mungo, Bulletboys, Trust Company, Thornley, Big Wreck, Sex Pistols, Stereomud, From Zero, Isle Of Q, Jonatha Brooke, Earth To Andy, Kilgore, Sevendust, Shed, State Of Corruption, Sweet Pea Atkinson, Was (Not Was), Cyndi Lauper, Apex Theory, Marc Cohn, Eve 6, Butch Walker, Nuno, Extreme, Tribe of Judah, DramaGods, Mourning Widows, Population 1, Systematic, The Exies, Toto, John 5, Big Country, Gary Moore, Buddy Guy, Helmet, Splender, Tonic, Dada, Level 42, Boomtown Rats, Queen, Zeppelin, The Police, Motley, John Waite, Velvet Revolver, Neil Zaza, Dan Reed Network, Danny Wilde, Weird Al, The Time, All-American Rejects, Electric Six, Generator, Adrenaline Sky, AC/DC, Mr. Mister, Edwin McCain, Marvelous 3, Paul Gilbert, Aerosmith, Wheatus, Waltham, Brian McKenzie, Metal Shop/ Metal Skool, Rick Springfield, Steve Vai, Toy Matinee, Kevin Gilbert, American Hi-Fi, Aimee Mann, 311, The Urge, Duran, Stereo Fallout, John Petrucci, T-Ride, King's X, Charlie Sexton, Mr. Big, John Corabi, Jon Butcher, Michael Penn, Grandmaster Flash, Averi, Elcodrive, Bob's Day Off, Oingo Boingo, Jellyfish, Imperial Drag, Two Ton Shoe... and...I'm spent.
All the Kevin Smith stuff, Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years, Napoleon Dynamite, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn movies,The Usual Suspects, UHF, Spinal Tap, Godfather 1 and 2, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco, and other assorted Mob flicks...
The Office, South Park, Family Guy (MA/RI natives "get" more of the jokes, by the way), Futurama, American Dad, Simpsons, History Channel, NHRA Drag Racing, The Daily Show, Colbert Report...
Wonderland Avenue (R.I.P. Danny Sugerman), Jack Welch, Ben Elton... also, lots of biographies and automotive history. Beyond that, I read a bunch of management theory books. I don't believe in the "latest fad", though: I wait until they're cheaper in paperback.
All the people who have mentored and inspired me know who they are, and those are my heroes. Besides that, I'd have to give a shout out to every single person working at the Patrone factory. And to whoever invented steak.