Chicago hardcore. Friends. Wife. Dogs. Occasional Hate Struggles.Unfinished Tattoos. Camel Turkish Golds. Lowrider bicycles. Cohibas. Pimping. Chilling. Pabst Blue Ribbon. Nag Champa incense. Frolf. Drinking a lot of Red Bull. Hinduism. Buddhism. Wearing various types of old man pants. Gold Teeth. 1965-1978 Lincoln Continentals. Bulldog Skateboards. Pretending everything is ok. Juice Magazine. White t-shirts and Sears work pants. Skanktuaries. Red Stripe. Old-school Vans slip-ons. Moving to Costa Rica to surf, grow dreadlocks, and learn the fine art of painting names on pieces of rice. Occasional doob smoking. Tiki bars. Crypt Records. The Amish and their stunning beards. Sweatsedo.com. Driving Hearses for a living. Living up to my moniker of Groom Zero. Sultan's Market. Bro-downs. Dickies workwear. The famous saying "Not If, But When". And of course, Cookie Conferences.
I'd like to meet:
Duane Peters. Rodney on the Roq.
Music:
7 seconds, Naked Raygun, Avail, Blood for Blood, Madball, Bad Brains,Circle Jerks, Cat Stevens, The Smiths, Ramallah, Negative FX, Last Rites, Black Flag, Minor Threat, D.I, 100 Demons, Blacklisted, Desperate Measures, Operation Ivy, Donnybrook, The Killer, Nuetral Milk Hotel, Screeching Weasel, D.R.I, Pegboy, Integrity, Shot Baker, Terror, Bad Religion, Green Day, Modern Life is War, Strike Anywhere, Embrace, Gorilla Biscuits, Death Before Dishonor, Hoods, Merauder, Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley, Modest Mouse, Skoidats, Misfits, Danzig, Samhain, Fugazi, Face to Face, Sweet Cobra, T.S.O.L, The Faction, J.F.A, Dead Kennedys, Common, Mos Def, Pennywise, DYS, Crown of Thorns, Sludgeworth, Skarhead, Negative Approach, InsideOut, Sheer Terror, Left Hand Path, Blood In Blood Out, Planof Attack, Buried Alive, The Bomb, Bound By Honor, Once For All, Over and Over, Murder City Devils, Pinhead Gunpowder, Ryker's, Alkaline Trio, The Gories, Ice Cube, Youth of Today, Tupac, Biggie, Old Surf, A lot of random shit from Crypt Records, Link Wray, Wound up, Tragedy.......
Movies:
American Movie, Suburbia, Lords of Dogtown, Switchblade Sisters, Thrashin', CreepShow, Gleaming the Cube, Boondock Saints, Point Break, Legend of Dogtown and Z-boys, Mi Familia, Blood in Blood out, Harold and Maude, Lost Boys, Can't buy me love, Napoleon Dynamite, The Program, The Warriors, Fight Club, American History X, Royal Tenenbaums, Romper Stomper, Rudeboy, The Harder They Come, Empire Records, Life as a House, Killer Klowns from Outerspace, Stoked-Gator documentary, Back to School, Teen Wolf, Breakfast club, Lost in Translation......
Television:
Anything on the History channel, UFO files, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, Twilight Zone, Miami Ink, Going Tribal, Harvey Birdman, Family Guy, The O.C, Mr. Show, Extreme Dodgeball, MXC, Lost in Space, Old cartoons, English Premier League Soccer, Project Runway, Wonder Showzen
Books:
Ralph Waldo Emerson/Henry David Thoreau/David Sedaris/David Cross.
American Skin, Lords of Chaos, Bhagavad Gita, American Hardcore, Teachings of the Swami Vivekinanda, The Upanisads
Heroes:
Jay "Zipperhead" Adams. This bro is as real as it gets. Lunatic. Soul skater in it's purest form. Total devotion and committment to a lifestyle that, in this day and age, has become almost obsolete.
