Music, music and more music, concerts/festivals, El Caminos, Pro-choice, Deity free, portrait and landscape photography, Fender Jazz Bass, my Stella scooter, reject humans, animal rights, animal welfare, technology, philosophy, culture, nature, pondering thoughts, dogs and cats, Toronto, clouds, art, education, Penn and Teller, blue skies, La Jolla California, Trader Joes, Wahoo's Fish Tacos, NYC Hardcore, gurgling death metal, gardening, GI Joe PSAs and DIY. Prank phone calls using Darth Vader and Hank Hill soundboards make me giggle.
Educated free thinkers. You should meet my nutty dog. Check out her video right here.
Add N into (X), Arcade Fire, Arch Villians, Afghan Whigs, The Bellrays, Bjork, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Jeff Buckley, Buzzcocks, Centaur, Cocteau Twins, COC, The Cure, Deep Dish, Del-Vamps, Descendents, Devo, Dirty Three, Echo and the Bunnymen, Fang, Flaming Lips, Fugazi, Grey Matter, Gorilla Biscuits, INTO ANOTHER (my all time fav band), Isis, Jawbox, Jihad Jerry and the Evildoers, Kyuss, Last Day of March, Love and Rockets, Lungfish, Melvins, Minor Threat, Modest Mouse, Monster Magnet, Mouse on Mars, Napalm Death, Nebula, New Order, Obituary, Pantera, Pavement, Perry Farrell solo and Janes Addiction, The Pretty Things, Pulp, Queens of the Stoneage, Quicksand, Radiohead, Raised on Zenith, Ramones, Richie Hawtkin, Rites of Spring, Roy Orbison, Rush, Seam, Seaweed, Skeletonwitch, Slayer, Solex, Son Volt, Stellastarr*, Strokes, Superchunk, Swayzak, Tar, Tortoise, Uncle Tupelo, Underdog, Underworld, Velocity Girl, Carcass, Charles Mingus, Fela Kuti, Art Blakey, Stan Getz, Mark Farina (all time fav dj), pretty much everything on Revelation records, super cheeze metal, early Anthrax, Metallica, Suicidal Tendencies, Megadeth, Ratt, Journey, Ronnie James Dio and Overkill...too many more to list. Spent nearly a decade working in various chain and independent record stores (Tracks, Schoolkids, Cd Plus, Tower) and a lifetime living in the armpit of America which expanded my interests musically.
Documentaries by Michael Moore, some comedies and drama. In order: The Shining Gummo The Big Lebowski Being There The Party Bad Santa Lost in Translation Broken Flowers Nói albÃnói American Movie Napoleon Dynamite No Country for Old Men
Flip This House, Cash Cab and Lost. Other classics I love are Trailer Park Boys, Little Britain, Black Books, Wallace and Gromit, Ren and Stimpy (first season) and The Price is Right.
Fiction short stories and novellas. Favorites include stories from Nicholai Gogol, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss, Sherman Alexie, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allen Poe and Breece Pancake.
My Mother, a breast cancer survivor, my Grandmother and Uncle John who taught me how to persevere through all of the struggles that life dishes out, Kasim Amyx for his determination and fight against cancer, Lisa Kekaula of the Bellrays for her tenacious soul and infamous words 'real women have curves,' Jack Black for his cool eyebrow, Homer Simpson for his brain, and my father for his longboard surfing wisdom.