Enjoying life, making music, playing bass, making movies, writing, reading, laughing, creating, thinking, dreaming and all the odd little moments in between everything else.
Einstein, Les Claypool, Victor Wooten, Galileo, Lloyd Kaufman, Darren Aronofsky, Uwe Boll (so I can punch the fucker!), Cookie Monster, Jesus and Buddha, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Jordan, and many others.
Just about anything as long as it's original. DogFashionDisco, Mars Volta, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Finch, Tool, Incubus, Herbie Hancock, Tom Waits, Horse the Band, Escapism, Tomahawk, Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Sublime, Portishead, Glassjaw, Dredg, Primus, Neurosis, Nine Inch Nails, The Locust, Circa Survive, Cursive, Rage Against the Machine, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, 311, GWAR (greatest band in the world), Forstella Ford, A Perfect Circle, etc.
The Fountain, Requiem For a Dream, Pi, Cube, Fight Club, Brazil, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (both versions), Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, American Beauty, Predator 1 & 2, Alien, Event Horizon, Old Boy, Blood Diamond, 2001: A Space Odessey, In the Mouth of Madness, Waking Life, What the Bleep Do We Know, A Scanner Darkly, The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Underworld, Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight, House on Haunted Hill, Big Fish, Braveheart, Troy, The Secret of Nymh, American History X, American Psycho, The Machinist, Memento, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original), The Crow, Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms, 1st Pirates of the Carribean, The Beach, Jacob's Ladder, Altered States, Solaris, City of Lost Children, Amores Perros, Pan's Labyrinth, Fallen, What Dreams May Come, Apocalypto, Hellboy, 1st & 2nd X-men, Lord of Illusions, The Prestige, The Illusionist, The Sword in the Stone, Monty Pythons the Meaning of Life, Undead, Flight of the Navigator, Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World, and the list goes on. I don't even remember them all. Part of being a film student.
usually makes my eyes and ears bleed cough syrup. But Dexter is pretty damn wicked.
Just about anything. If it's got writing on it, I'll read it. Literally. I'm a reading crackwhore. Favorites include Choke, The Great and Secret Show, Ancient Secrets of the Flower of Life, A Wrinkle in Time, Wheel of Time series, and god, there's just way too damn many. I've forgotten at least half of them, and that's close to the thousands.
My parents, and Batman.