Film. Music. Art. Rollerblading. Acting. Writing. Rock Climbing. Skiing. Fishing. Camping. Rogue Beer. A nicely broken in pair of 501s.
Anyone in love with life. Movers. Shakers. Friends. Lovers. Sisters. Brothers. Anyone who wants to meet me. The pioneers of rollerblading. Anyone who doesn't want to meet me. Everyone who rollerblades for the love of it. Michaelangelo. Leonardo da Vinci. Tom Hanks. Sean Penn. Steven Spielberg. Martin Scorcese. Johnny Depp. Clint Eastwood. Jack Nicholson. Marlon Brando. Willie Nelson. Tom Petty. Ben Harper. Bob Dylan. The Beatles. Johnny Cash. Hunter S. Thompson. Che Guevara. Keith Richards. etc. Chris Sharma.
To all of those who roll, I salute you.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Willie Nelson. Ryan Adams. Bob Dylan. The Beatles. Ben Harper. The Rolling Stones. Reckless Kelly. Whiskeytown. Bruce Springsteen. Sparta. TV on the Radio. Beck. Buck 65. Anything besides radio rap.
Entirely too many to even begin to list. Here's a few off the top of my head anyways, in no particular order.
The Simpsons. Futurama. Family Guy. King of the Hill. Seinfeld. Arrested Development. Curb Your Enthusiasm. Weeds. The Sopranos. The Wonder Years. Trailer Park Boys.
The Bible. The Grapes of Wrath. The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart (Willie Nelson). Chronicals, Vol. 1 (Bob Dylan). Cash (Johnny Cash). Anything written by Kinky Friedman. East of Eden. Conversations with Tom Petty (Tom Petty & Paul Zollo). The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes (Willie Nelson). Scorcese on Scorcese (Martin Scorcese) Anything written by Hunter S. Thompson.
So this is the place where I list my heroes. However, since most of my heroes (with exception to my family, friends, and other loved ones) are listed in the 'Who I'd Like to Meet' section, I am going to use this space for some quotes. Memorable quotes are not always, but often spoken or written by individuals who are heroic in their own way. It seems fitting.
"Fuck it Dude, let's go bowling."
-Walter Sobchak
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly."
-The Dalai Lama
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
-Anonymous
"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself places no one has ever been."
-Alan Ashley-Pitt
"True friends stab you in the front."
-Oscar Wilde
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
-Malcolm Muggeridge
"Whenever you fall, pick something up."
-Oswald Avery
"No really great man ever thought himself so."
-William Hazlitt
“For helping me to grow, I owe a lot I know, to all the girls I've loved before.â€
-Willie Nelson
"To alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!"
-Homer Simpson
"Payday came and with it beer."
-Rudyard Kipling
"As long as George Bush is in the White House, I'm going to keep cheating on my taxes."
-Anonymous Old Man in a thrift store
"Keep dreaming."
-Jon Keithley
"The thing that most people don't realize is that it's warmer to have long hair; everybody wants to be warm. People with short hair freeze easily. Then they try to hide their coldness, and they get jealous of everybody that's warm. Then they become barbers or congressmen. A lot of prison wardens have short hair. Have you ever noticed that Abraham Lincoln's hair was much longer than John Wilkes Booth's?"
-Bob Dylan
"I never wanted to be a movie actor. I started out on the stage. The first time I was invited out here [Los Angeles], I turned it down. Then Michael was born and I needed money, so I came. Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free."
-Kirk Douglas
"No matter what, the name George W. Bush will not be on the ballot this year."
-Barack Obama
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix