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Listening to Music, Writing Music, Playing Guitar, Formula 1, Xbox, College Football, LACMA, Whatever's playing at Laemlle's Sunset 5, Whoever's playing at the Hotel Cafe, Supercross, Monster Trucks, Go Karts, Going for a drive... any excuse to be on Mulholland, Spontaneous roadtrips, Poker, Hiking, Griffith Park, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Toronto, BMX Freestyle, Really Long Novels, Always looking for a challenge. Years ago I promised myself that I wouldn't deny myself any activity or adventure based on my or anyone else's perception of the type of people who do it. I love art house movies and classic literature and going to the symphony, but I also have a really good time when the Monster Trucks come to town.
Almost every style of music, but those which are closest to my heart are Metal, Hardcore, the folky inspired stuff everyone plays at the Hotel Cafe, and indie rock with female vocals (Which may be because my parents made me listen to lots of Abba when I was a kid, but also, during the formative summer after my first year in college I listened to a lot of college radio and there were a bunch of great bands with female singers at that time. Like The 360s and the Popinjays. If the band has female harmony vocals I'll usually love it immediately. I loved Veruca Salt. I really liked the Breeders. I'm a huge fan of Lisa Mychols and her old band The Masticators. My favorite band of the past 2 years is Saucy Monky... but they're getting some strong competition nowadays from Porcelain). Other favorites of the moment include Libbie Schrader, Kat Parsons, Adrianne, Joe Purdy, The Slow Signal Fade, Sylvie Lewis, Ernest Troost, Jenna Bryson, and Sally Jaye. It's great to live in LA and get to hear all these incredible artists in intimate settings for almost no money while the record industry and Clear Channel try to sell me inferior product for more. I'm a hundred times more likely to go hear Saucy Monky in Santa Monica than to spend fifty dollars admission, twenty dollars parking, and six dollars a beer to go to the Universal Ampitheater or the Blockbuster Pavillion. Just to sound like a total hypocrite... I will spend whatever it takes to go see Slayer everytime they play. The same is true for Slipknot, Corrosion of Conformity, Terror, Throwdown, Testament, Sick of it All, The Descendents, and Lamb of God. I also like Meiko, Jem, Brad Paisley, Chemical Brothers, Katy Perry, Dvorak, Fall Out Boy, Rammstein, Jesca Hoop, Agnostic Front, any Polka especially Frankie Yankovic (Which kills my friends), Angelo Badalamenti, Jay Nash, The Like, Stevie Ray Vaughn, almost every Russian composer I've heard especially Tchaikovsky and Borodin, Bad Brains, Danzig, Melanie C., Triumph, Van Halen pre-Hagar and Hagar pre-Van Halen, Cannonball Adderly, Julian Breem, Lauryn Hill, Pato Banton, Voi Vod, Naughty by Nature, Lionrock, Zero 7, Tina Dico, Leo Kottke, Scott Henderson, Portishead, Ani, Kreator, Possesed, Dizzy Gillespie, The Tubes, Bad Religion, Nickel Creek, Chris Whitley, and about a zillion others. I don't know how it is that Catherine Feeny isn't already signed to a major label and isn't already a big star. Yet another "LA based artist" who doesn't play in LA often enough (Hello Sylvie Lewis, that goes for you too). Anyone who gets the chance to see her perform should do so.
Cinema Paradiso, Dazed and Confused, Exotica, Rat Race, Shawshank Redemption, Jaws, Warriors, Mulholland Drive, Fire Walk With Me, Kill Bill, Belle Epoque, Snatch, Napolean Dynamite, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Donnie Darko, Saved, Braveheart, The Lover, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down, Blazing Saddles, My Summer Of Love, Indian Summer, So I Married An Axe Murderer, The Wraith, Layer Cake, Wedding Crashers, The Loss of Sexual Innocence, Leaving Las Vegas, LA Confidential
The Simpsons, Carnivale, Daily Show, South Park, Forensic Files, Biography, Speed Channel, VH1 Nostalgia Shows, Mail Call, G4 TV, Nova, Spike TV, Monty Python, Reno 911, Visions of Italy
Candide, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Ulysses, Of Human Bondage, The Sound and the Fury, Madame Bovary, Madame de Cleves, House of Leaves, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms, Guadalcanal Diary, The Thin Red Line, Paris Trout, Ironweed, Water Music (T. C. Boyle).
Upton Sinclair, Charles Ives, Mario Cuomo, Brad Paisley, BJ AND the Bear