Continuing to write my novel. Traveling, journalism, writing poetry and fiction, philosophy, consuming music, playing guitar, sailing, hanging out with friends, reading, photography, drawing, camping, hiking, New York.
Tom Waits, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Hunter S., Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Stephen Daedalus, Kerouac, Stevie Wonder, Giaccomo Puccini, captains of ships, recluses and monks, Borges, Mickey Mantle.
I cut my list down to my all-time favorites and the stuff I've been listening to lately: Jakarta, Fire By Rapture, Ween, Tom Waits, Beatles, Wu-Tang, David Bowie, Big L, Broken Social Scene, Sonata Arctica, Mars Volta, Biggie, Stevie Wonder, RZA, Puccini, Shins, Flaming Lips, Lemur Voice, DJ Hype, Ima Robot, Radiohead, Nas, The Clash, DJ Shadow, Blind Faith, Neil Young, Grateful Dead, Paganini, Sex Pistols, The Strokes, Of Montreal, Decapitated, Nevermore, Dying Fetus, Bob Dylan, Daft Punk, D'angelo, Tenacious D, Pat Benatar, Alice in Chains, Bob Marley, Death, Van Morrison, Eric B & Rakim, Dead Prez, Peter Tosh, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Dizzie Rascal, Prince, Frank Zappa, Gravediggaz, Johnny Cash, Tony Rice, Mozart, The Who, Presidents, Les Claypool, Fugees, Sinatra, NIN, Al diMeola, Gnarls Barkley, Sublime, Low, Donovan, The Cure, Bach, Psycroptic, Imogen Heap, Dream Theater, Chopin, Immortal Technique, Portishead, Beastie Boys, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Rush, Vivaldi, Velvet Underground, Pixies, Jane's Addiction.
Waking Life, New Jack City, Fight Club, Down By Law, Garden State, Interstella 5555, Dead Alive, May, High Fidelity, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Goodfellas, How High, The Descent, Battle Royale, My Girl, Falling Down, Layercake, Pi, Dog Day Afternoon, City of God, Walk The Line, Pulp Fiction, Scarface, Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Clockwork Orange, Dumb & Dumber, Romeo & Juliet, Nightmare Before Xmas, Happy Gilmore, It's A Wonderful Life.
Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Ali G, The Office, Friends, Sifl and Olly, Real World, Coupling.
If you need something good to read, please consult the following list of my favorites (some are writers, some are essays, some are books): The Boys In Your Basements, Bukowski, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Borges, The Alchemist, Siddhartha, The Antichrist, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Love in the Time of Cholera, A Pirate Looks at Fifty, Dharma Bums, Beyond Good and Evil, The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved, Isaac Babel, Notes From Underground, Nausea, Blood and Guts in High School, The Good Soldier, Kurt Cobain's Journals, Dana Priest, The Inferno, Le Morte D'Arthur, Geek Love, 1000 Places to See Before You Die, Lorca, Marvel comics, Desolation Angels, The Barber of Seville, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, On The Genealogy of Morals, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, The Great Gatsby, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Either/Or, Invisible Monsters, Dubliners, Caucasia, Passing, Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Elements of Journalism, Bruce Coville, R.L. Stine, The Stranger, Heart of Darkness, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Death and the King's Horseman, Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, The Color Purple, The Odyssey, Among the Thugs, Revolution in the Head, Woodstock Nation, The Sound and the Fury, The Fall, Under the Volcano.
Some quotes I like:"We have got to realize we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state! The 21st Century's going to be a new century! Not the century of slavery, not the century of lies and issues of no significance, of classism and statism, and all the rest of the modes of control. It's going to be the age of humankind standing up for something pure and something right!" - Alex Jones"One's own free, untrammeled desires, one's own whim, no matter how extravagant, one's own fancy, be it wrought up at times to the point of madness - all of this is precisely that most advantageous of advantages which is omitted, which fits into no classification, and which is constantly knocking all the systems and theories to hell..." "...and two times two, gentlemen, is no longer life, but the beginning of death." - Fyodor Dostoevsky"Is there life on Mars?" - David Bowie"I'm working so I wont have to try so hard Tables they turn sometimes, oh someday I ain't wasting no more time" -Julian Casablancas from The Strokes"An enviable lot long have I yearned to know. Long have I, weary slave, been contemplating flight." - Alexsandr PushkinWu-Tang Forever"Flee my friend, into your solitude and to where the raw, rough breeze blows! It is not your fate to be a fly-swat. Thus spoke Zarathustra." - Friedrich Nietzsche"I just skipped and jumped and danced along and I had really learned that you can't fall off a mountain. Whether you can fall off a mountain or not I don't know, but I had learned that you can't. That was the way it struck me." -Jack Kerouac"The Boys in Your Basements sing a new song tonight, The Boys in Your Basements cry castrated tears no more." - Last line in my book of poetry"He pretended not to hear me, giving me a sidelong look, (which made me remember, as at least a hundred other thoughts flashed through my mind, the look of a dog I'd had in Colonia Polanco, the dog my parents put to sleep when suddenly it started to bite)" - Bolano