Playing guitar and bass, hanging out with my hot wife Eowyn, spending time with good friends, tonight is kinda special. Attempting to make beautiful objects, going to work every day knowing I get to fix and build musical instruments, hanging out with my bastard cats and raising chickens, kayaking, breathing clean air away from the city, bitching about politics, drinking copious amounts of beer and coffee.
Iommi, Butler, Ward, Osbourne, Kilmister, Dio, Bill Hicks
Sabbath, Motorhead, THIN LIZZY, HIGH ON FIRE, Boston, Pantera, Zep, Rush, old Metallica, Megadeth, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, System of a Down, Kyuss, Slayer, Celtic Frost, Kreator, Priest. Fuck you, I'm an unabashed rocker. Misifits, Ramones, DK, Dead Milkmen, Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies. Terry Riley, Zakir Hussain, Gyan RIley. Friends' bands that rule(d): Superruin, High Society, Gargantula, Spaceboy, Automatic Animal, The Duplicates, Everyday Victory, Tenpin, Drive, Bright Black Sky, Watch It Burn, Galadriel, Year of the Spider, The Deed, Lonely Kings, High Gain, Plastic Profanity, Cenobytes, Slydog, Circus Tents, Up To Here, One Ton Tow Ball, Paper Street Tiger, Loadstar, Viva Voce. My old band The Strange, RIP for now but I hope to play once again. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Johnny Cash, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Bill Hicks will live forever as pure art.
Delicatessen, HANNIBAL, Holy Grail, Mad Max, LOTR, Secretary, Decline of Western Civilization I and II, Spinal Tap, zombies, jackie chan, Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Dead Alive, Army of Darkness and its evil predecessors.
A-team, Seinfeld, Simpsons, Jon Stewart, Deadwood
Authors - Neil Peart, Tolkien, Rowling, Piers Anthony, Lovecraft, George Pelecanos, Neal Stephenson, Morgan Llywelyn, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Harry Harrison, Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Stephen King
Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Matt Pike, Dio, any number of obscure guitarbuilders, Chris Senn, Cab, Gonzales, Neil Peart, Lee and Lifeson