My wife / best friend. My parents who I do not spend enough time with. My friends who I REALLY do not spend enough time with. Extraordinary music. Breath Hold Spearfishing (Everyone is so cool until you dive down 60' into the tight, darkening cold and silently run into something much bigger than you.) Amateur Woodworking.Gardening. Most anything that creates a functional or artistic product. People who pursue their passions without regard to criticism or success.
All my existing band friends. All amazingly talented/underappreciaciated artists looking for fans who get it - here I am. Maybe another online drinking buddy, artist, or thought provoking sort.
Hands down: KAYO DOT/MAUDLIN OF THE WELL - So good that it makes me want to break down and weep knowing that nothing will probably ever be better. Equally high marks to Time of Orchids for near tear inducing amazement -not comfort- amaaaazement. These two plus Friendly Bears/Tim Byrnes, Behold the Arctopus/Colin Marston, and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum make me happy to have lived long enough to find this stuff. Love ALL my added bands - check out my top 8! Add a generous helping of Dream Theater, Fate's Warning, Jethro Tull, anything Patton, Primus, & Steely Dan and I'm pretty well set.
Pulp Fiction ("He knew it, she knew it, and goddamn if Marcellas didn't know it too!), Full Metal Jacket ("I admire your honesty. Hell,I like you.."), Event Horizon ("Oh, she went much further than that...) and Castaway - because I probably would have stayed.
All television is just painful right now.
Naked lunch. Some cool book by Clive Barker I can't remember the name of. And Bodies of Water, Bodies of Light: trust me on this one.
Not really the hero following type but have many things that I admire about many people.