I like all sorts of shit. Travel, movies, music, visual arts, performance arts, computing, the fine art of freaking out, camping, the desert, the ocean, the jungle, sex, drugs, rocks, rolls, writing, reading, juggling, skiing/boarding, jokes, laughter, dancing, twitching like a spastic idiot, sketching, oragami, cooking, eating, the fractal nature of the universe...I like to suck the marrow out of just about every last thing I can, then spit the hollowed husk to the ground to be trampled by the thunderous roar of assholes like me bleeding the world dry.
I'm not big on celebrity worship or any of that bullshit. I like to meet chill, down to earth people, who enjoy themselves, like to laugh, and are crazy enough to be interesting, but not so crazy as to be sketch ass bitchez. As far as famous people are concerned, I'll bet Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson would be fun to party with, and I wouldn't be above bending Angelina Jolie over a park bench...
I like both kinds, country and western! And also good old rock n roll, and freaky world music, and electronica, and old school jazz, and bluegrass, and ska, and even some rap and R&B.A few choice artists that come to mind: Manu Chao, Gogol Bordello, The Talking Heads, Oysterhead, Pink Floyd, Beck, Tom Petty, Cream, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Slick Rick, Amon Tobin, Richie Hawtin, The Moldy Peaches, Abba (just kidding), Baaba Maal, The Beatles (especially the psychedelic stuff), Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Agustus Pablo, Bobby McFerrin (not just kidding), Canned Heat, CCR, Danny Elfman, Dave Grisman, Dick Dale, Gotan Project, Weird Al, Goldie Looking Chain (not exactly sure you can call them musicians, but I like em), Immortal Technique, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, The Dead, Juno Reactor, King Missle, Paul Simon, LMF, The Orb, Spinal Tap... That's enough for now, don't want to burst the server listing all the musicians I like.
Film has been a big part of my life. From an early age I was enchanted by the new worlds and lives that you can experience via this extremely visceral art form. Not that I demand transportive quality out of a film, I have certainly been entertained by plenty of schlocky cheese ass wastes of celluloid as well. Movies are largely responsible for getting me into computer graphics, which is how I make a living. In some ways you could say that I am a film maker, on a small and abstract scale. I have designs on some more ambitious projects, but I'm all too aware that it takes more time/energy/resources than I am currently willing to devote to them.A few all time classics, in no particular order: Ninja Scroll, The Wall, The Maltese Falcon, City of Lost Children, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Predator, Army of Darkness, Hero, Airplanes and The Naked Guns, Requiem for a Dream, The Matrix, Spinal Tap (and everything else by this troop), True Romance, Time Bandits (everything by Terry Gilliam), Hard Boiled, Riding Giants, Sin City, and How to Get a Head in Advertising.
Hardly ever watch TV, and not just because I don't have cable. I do however enjoy quality edu-tainment, when it is used as a medium to show you other parts of the world, or freakish creatures like on Nova and such. I am also a fan of lots of animated shows like the requisite Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad, and Samurai Jack.
Love a good book, but somehow don't find much time to read these days, other than bathroom stall poetry. Some really good books I've read in the past: One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Long Ships, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lonely Planet's Spanish Phrasebook, Pulp, The Magic Christian, Time Enough for Love, Dune, and Guys and Dolls: Short Stories by Damon Runyon. - Author's I think can be trusted: Donald Westlake, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C Clarke, and the master of them all, Ken Kesey.
My mom, my dad, GandhiMuhamedAliKing Jr III, big ups to god, and of course my little brosef... Naw, seriously, all my parents are pretty fuckin cool, and I'm lucky enough to truely admire most the people I call my good friends. But as far as people the average joe can relate to, it takes a true god to stand out amongst the masses for me to call them a hero. People like: Weird Al Yankovic, Terry Gilliam, Ken Kesey, and David Byrne. Sure, now I sound like a sexest just cause I can't think of any women heros, well, I guess you'd best get on trying to impress me ladies...