Music, Movies, Photography, Art. I play guitar obsessively, so that's a major interest, hehe.
Great musicians! Cool chicks! Anyone into Holdsworth!
Progressive metal, prog rock, Fusion, Classical, anything that has difficult guitar work in it.My favorite guitar players: Allan Holdsworth, Shawn Lane, Richard Daude, Magnus Olsson, Scott Henderson, Fredrik Thordendal, Chris Poland, Guthrie Govan, Buckethead, Ron Thal, Dimebag, Greg Harrison, Brett Garsed, T.J. Helmerich, Impellitteri, Greg Howe.My band Butchered Fixation: "A guitar clinic of sorts, boasting ridiculous fits of Marty Friedman-style solos over standard perverted bleats and grotesque industrial sampling." -Portland MercuryIn Memory of Shawn!
The Thing, Alien, Aliens, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Scarface, The Shining, Blade Runner, The Road Warrior, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Opera, Suspiria, Deep Red, Zombie, The Beyond, The Big Lebowski, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Toxic Avenger, Robocop, The Terminator, Predator, Hard Boiled, Hero, Iron Monkey, A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow 2, Akira, Fist of the North Star, Spirited Away, Dirty Harry, Blood Feast, 10,000 Maniacs, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes, Goodfellas, Casino, 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Drunken Master, Bad Taste, Dead-Alive, The Fog.Those are just a few off the top of my head, I like Sci-Fi and Horror movies the most. Just seeing anything fantastic, far out, or unbeleivable is usually pretty cool.
Robot Chicken, Family Guy, Venture Brothers, SNL. I never really watch TV, though.
H.P. Lovecraft is my favorite author. My favorite stories by him are "The Color Out Of Space" and "From Beyond". The Hobbit/LOTR, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Portrait of Dorian Grey, The Musashi series by Eiji Yoshikawa, etc.
Shawn Lane,Allan HoldsworthRichard Daude and Ron Thal,Greg Harrison, Peter Greenfield, Kevin Ferguson, and my parents.