music (playing, listening, bitching about), art, politics, physics, body mods, film, family, friends, archeology, cooking, traveling (though it's mostly day dreaming) and watching my little girl grow and learn.
will haven, sparta, mastadon, sigur ros, the cure, genius, super joint ritual, leonard cohen, aphex twin, channel live, mckluski, grappa, meshuggah, botch, vaz, goat snake, okenfold, darkest hour, jeru, converge, massive attack, sex pistols, kill the vultures, kanser, afghan wigs, bozart, depeche mode, crowbar, fear, x, pre 90's metallica, odd jobs, in flames, orbital, obominable iron sloth, neurosis, isis, guns 'n roses (just appetite), beck (just sea change), vivaldi, snap case, bach, etc. my cd case looks kindof schizophrenic. mostly i'm just a metal dork.
first and foremost anything that is from the 80's and sucks, ex: better off dead, wierd science, first blood, predator, explorers, labrynth, never ending story, the dark crystal, etc. donnie darko, suicide club, happiness, ichi the killer, lost in translation, zatoichi, battle royal, the corporation, farenheight 911 (any michael moore will do), the revolution will not be televised (and other various nerdy commie pinko documentaries), and lots of really shitty horror ficks.
t.v. is for stupids. oh, okay, unless it's the aweful truth, bill maher, t.v. nation or nerd programming on pbs, discovery, history, etc. oh yeah, and i'm an x files nerd.
ishmael, fast food nation, the best democracy money can buy, kitchen confidential, anything by noam chomsky, perfume, house of leaves, peoples history of the u.s. (or anything else by howard zinn for that matter), the story of b, the discoverers, the bible(makes me laugh every time!), a short history of nearly everything, The trouble with being born, bomb the suburbs, and that one that was so much better than the movie they made of it.
heroes are for people with no ability to get things done and a lack of confidence. don't worship people.....respect them for their accomlishments and the things they stand for. then strive to be someone a little better than you were yesterday.