I have recently taken up an interest in lutherie. If you do not know what this is, feel free to ask. I have a blog dedicated to the guitars I am building this year at http://redsguitars.blogspot.com so you should check it out. Aside from that I like to play guitar, write/read poetry and other literature, motorcycling, photography, film, arts of all kinds, doing stuff outdoors, anything that gets some adrenaline flowing, working on my bike, and creating things with my hands. Check out some photos I exposed and poetry I wrote at http://spiffamafied.deviantart.com
I'd like to meet:
People who are not lame and think or act in ways closer to the outer boundary of socially acceptable behavior. Cool people to make some sounds with and people to ride bikes or boards with. Also, people who share a similar perception of life would be cool. Meet the criteria? Hit me up on aim sn: Willy Uranamite
Music:
So this list can change quite frequently, but I currently have a very healthy obsession with gypsy jazz/manouche (Django Reinhardt, Twin Cities Hot Club, Steeve Laffont Sre Kidjales, Ritary Gaguenetti, Latcho Drom, etc...)
Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Ween, Joanna Newsom, Modest Mouse, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Ugly Casanova, Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, Explosions in the Sky, Rage Against the Machine, Black Sabbath, Sublime, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Dylan, Mason Jennings, Bad Religion, NOFX, The Clash, Rancid, The Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Anti-Flag, The Circle Jerks, Sublime, Lamb of God, Bela Fleck, Slightly Stoopid, Matisyahu, Bob Marley, Jack Johnson, Opeth, Cream, The Cure, Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordello, Wes Montgomery, Muddy Waters, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, John Lee Hooker, Pedro the Lion, Air, Aqualung, The Shins, really random stuff of which this is just a small sampling...
Movies:
I watch a lot of movies. Recent movies I have enjoyed inlude, but are not limited to The Corpse Bride, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Blow, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man, Fear and Loathing, Secret Window, From Hell (anyone notice a pattern?) Magnolia, Crash, Waiting, The Motorcycle Diaries, Garden State, I 3 Huckabees, I'm tired of writing this list so I might add more later, and believe me this list could go on a while...
Television:
Flight of the Conchords is the best show ever, but other than that I like Entourage, Weeds, Dexter, American Chopper, and Metric Revolution.
Books:
I am currently reading Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. I just finished Rant, the latest from Chuck Palahniuk and have enjoyed most of his other novels such as Fight Club, Diary, Choke, Lullaby, and Survivor. I love anything by Kurt Vonnegutd (Mother Night, Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle...) I have recently picked up some Jack Kerouac and his writing blows my mind... Other favorites include Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, John Stewart's America, Al Franken, etc... Robert Reich's Reason had some great rhetoric, so it is highly recommended. I read a lot, and pretty much whatever I can get my hand's on. I also like a lot of Poe's short stories, my favorite being "A Predicament" and I also enjoy Allen Ginsberg's poetry. So thats about it at the moment.
Heroes:
Good musicians, good writers, artists, people who stick up for what they believe in... too many to name.
