Playing bass in Vibrolas, driving and working on cool cars, photography, traveling (especially with my band!)
Jim Henson. Too bad he's dead.
Vibrolas (well, of course I'd list my band!), Fu Manchu, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Zeke, Gaza Strippers, Frank Black, Nebula, Nashville Pussy, VaGiants, City Mouse, Johnny Cash, The Dutchmen, Budgie, Alice Cooper, CCR, Probot, QOTSA, Thin Lizzy, Blondie, Mudhoney, Didjits, Link Wray, old Aerosmith, Wanda Jackson...the list goes on and on!
This Is Spinal Tap, The Jerk, The Muppet Movie, Two-Lane Blacktop, Better Off Dead, The Princess Bride, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rock N Rule, SLC Punk, Christine, Army of Darkness, Dogtown and Z Boys, the original Gone In 60 Seconds (with the original soundtrack, dammit!), High Fidelity
rots your brain, eats your soul, and is making our great nation fat. That being said, here's what I like to rot my brain with: The Simpsons, Futurama, The Muppet Show, ATHF, Family Guy (detecting a theme yet?)
Anything by Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Dave Barry, Douglas Adams, Janet Evanovich's mysteries, Get a Life by William Shatner, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Jim Henson, Geezer Butler, my mom and dad, Lemme, Jack Bruce, Jimi Hendrix, Georgia O'Keefe