Guitar, Music, Gigs, Art-in all it's forms, Libraries, Reading, Movies, Tattoos, Shrines, Museums, Galleries, History, Camping, Road Trips, Dogs, but cats are cool too, the dark side of the force, odd time signatures and alternate tunings.
People with similiar interests, especially musicians.
Devil...Every week combatmusicradio.com. Lately- Grails, Jesu, Om, Corrupted, Explosions in the Sky, Blood and Time, Piggy Demos, Salome, Project:Failing Flesh, Rwake, US Christmas, Hour of 13, Year of No Light, Middian, Baroness, Grinch, Agalloch, Minsk, Grotus, Deathspell Omega, Intronaut, Angels of Light, Earth, Red Sparowes, Hammers of Misfortune, Oxbow, Knut, Mouth of the Architect, SunnO))), Asunder, Jarboe, Mogwai, Opeth, Made out of Babies, Khanate, Plotkin, Pelican, Ludicra, Mono, Harvestmen, Bad Livers, Tone, Isis, old Rush+Maiden+VoiVod, countless others. Old reliables - NEUROSIS, Melvins, Patton, Fugazi, J.Lizard, Tool, BHSurfers, Swans, FlamingLips, Floyd, Sabbath, Zappa, N.Young, Waylon, Willie, Hank, Ry Cooder, old country and blues, certain jazz and fusion, a bit of noise and experimental, most classical, some soundtracks and alot of guitar nerd stuff.
Lynch, Jarmusch, Santa Sangre, Gummo, Brothers Quay, Angel Heart, Shawshank, Delicatessan, City of Lost Children, CohenBros, Waters, Live at Pompeii, Apoca-Blade-Lamb- Lunch-Driver, Videodrome, Requim of a Dream, Braveheart, Lone Star, Fight Club, Sling Blade, Alien, Rivers Edge, Memento, 12 Monkeys, Brasil, so many others...
PBS, HBO, History, A+E, Biography, Jeopardy, Ken Burns, Daily Show, Simpsons, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, Young Ones and others when I find the need to turn off my brain.
I've recently read books on Ian Curtis, Leavenworth Prison, Hendrix, Mumia's banned NPR essays, Iron Maiden, Steve Earle, Pink Floyd, Celtic Forst, Choosing Death, Lemmy, Dance of Days. Within the past two years or so- some of the books I've read: Suttree and The Crossing- C. McCarthy, That Old Ace in the Hole and Accordian Crimes-A. Proulx, King Rat-J.Clavel, Back to Wando Passo-D.Payne, A Man In Full-T.Wolfe, Maximum Bob-E.Leonard, Journey Into Darkness-J.Douglas, Facing Rushmore-D.Martin, A Son of the Circus-J.Irving, Matters of Chance-J.Heine, Flags of our Fathers- J.Bradly, Bookmakers Daughter-B.Abbott, Light in August-W.Faulkner, amoungst others. Some favorite books: Beach Music-P.Conroy, The Cider House Rules-J.Irving, Where the Red Fern Grows-W.Rawls, Where White Men Fear To Tread-R.Means, Crazy Love-D.Martin, White Doves at Mourning- J.L. Burke, The Count of Monte Cristo-A.Dumas, Last of the Mohicans-J.F.Cooper, Shipping News- A.Proulx, and others. My favorite authors are Pat Conroy, Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy, John Irving and James Lee Burke and sometimes Steven King.
Nana: Laura Mabel Andrews Thomas{1896-1984}