• Music (creation, appreciation, and evaluation)
• Reading, studying, mental growth and self-development of all sorts
• Contemplative practice
• Attempting to find true humility
• Trying to live every day as a better person than I was the day before (and usually failing miserably at this attempt)
• Art and design (neophyte skill, immense appreciation)
• Photography (particularly the "antique" variety)
• Religion, psychology, quantum physics, philosophy, science (Considering, debating, and reconciling)
• Spicy food
• Cockney slang
• Sleep
I'd like to meet:
The Alpha. The Omega: I got some serious apologizing to do.
My grandfather's ghost: I'd like him to tell me stories about when he'd
drink with "holy men" in his bar.
Phil Anselmo: It'd be cool guzzle 151 and painkillers with the dude.
Rick Ruben: Someone needs to cut off that rat fink beard. And I wouldn't
mind talking production with the chap.
Ozzy Ozbourne: We should play paper-rock-scissors and paint self-portraits
with Supernaut cranked on repeat.
Henry Rollins: I need a serious attitude adjustment.
Glenn Danzig: I'd like to talk theology with this chump. I bet he don't
know shit, man.
Jim Morrison: Wouldn't it be rad to make "snow angels" with the
dude during one of his desert "trips"? "Sand angels",
I guess...
Animal from The Muppets: I challenge you to a drum-off. Loser has to give Miss Piggy a back rub. Winner gets to eat that frog.
Caligula: This guy was fucked. I mean, seriously. Gotta look this guy in
the eye just once and say "Dude, what were you thinking?"
The guy who invented the quotation mark: I'd like to "shake" this "dude's" "hand" and "say", "Well done, man. I owe you."
Music:
Gimme noise, gimme chaos, riffs heavier than the moon. I want some serious hip-hop to get down to and some sweet melodies to get stuck in my skull. Gimme goosebumps and a spiritual experience in sine wave form.
Led Zeppelin, Acid Bath, Converge, Wu Tang, The Misfits, AKIMBO, Bright Eyes, Pink Floyd, Turmoil, Robert Johnson, Isis(only Panopticon), Sam Cooke, Soilent Green, Blaqk Audio, Poison, Deadguy, The Mars Volta, Bob Dylan, Starkweather, Kid606, Ice Cube, Overcast, Goldfrapp, Howlin' Wolf, my dad's cover of "Working Class Hero", Food for Animals, Jesuit, The Doors, Supermachiner, Michael Hurley, Bowie, James Brown, Immortal Technique, Leadbelly, Lauryn Hill, Neil Young, Dalek, AC/DC,...too many to name...anything that sparks my emotion or falls into the categories of the above paragraph.
Movies:
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dog Day Afternoon, Any of the original Star Wars Trilogy, The Boondock Saints, Fight Club, A Bronx Tale, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, some of Michael Haneke's more recent stuff, Suicide Kings, The Omen (the original, duh), most Lynch, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Ran, The Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Trainspotting, Jesus' Son, Heat, A Snake of June, The Mothman Prophecies, Gummo, Raging Bull, Koyaanisqatsi, Soylent Green, Kung Fu Hustle, Shaun of the Dead, Wes Anderson, Nosferatu, A Scanner Darkly, Coming to America, Back to School, American History X, Carlito's Way, Chopper, The Usual Suspects, Green Street Hooligans, City of God, Poltergeist.
Television:
Lost. That's about it.
Books:
Catcher in the Rye, The Cloud of Unknowing, anything by Hunter S. Thompson, most Palahniuk, Anthony de Mello (Sadhana!), Thomas Merton, Jiddu Krishnamurti, This Present Darkness, Into the Silent Land, some Irvine Welsh, Good Omens, Grays Anatomy, The Pundit's Folly, The Art of Loving, Poppy Z's earlier stuff, J. Jenkins, Gerald Schroeder, James Joyce, a bit of Vonnegut (just a bit), Denis Johnson, Mark Brandon Read (particularly, "How to Shoot Friends and Influence People"), Viktor Frankl, psychology books, religion books, Hostage to the Devil, C. S. Lewis, The Wu Tang Manual, The Bible
Heroes:
Serpico...yeah, that's right...take it or leave it. Alphonso Zito III. Jesus (nope, I'm not kidding...nor am I a zealot or uneducated, gullible, or just optimistic. Refer to blog posting). The Limey. Keyser Söze.
