Texas Hold 'Em poker; discharging firearms indoors; collecting Gulf War memorablia; teaching impoverished children how to breakdance atop their cardboard homes; fighting the good fight against gingivitis. For starters.
Like-minded creative types who put the work before the ego and practice their craft with conviction, who aren't driven by a need for validation or an obsession with signing autographs, and who know the difference between what happens in a story and what a story's about. Also, Karl Pilkington, Phil Lynott, Bon Scott.
Currently late '60s psychedelic garage rock and early '70s doom metal, particularly bands that've slipped through the cracks and been forgotten. The Glass Sun, 13th Floor Elevators, Captain Beyond, Pentagram -- some not so "lost" to time -- Bon Scott era AC/DC, The Faces -- and today's torch bearers -- Wolfmother, Witchcraft, etc. Really, though, I like anything from any era as long as the riffs are monstrous.
The Warriors and Shane. Those'll get me by. No, I'm good -- really.
Remember the great TV rennaissance not too long ago when there were so many good shows on you couldn't find time to watch 'em all? What a fleeting, fantastic couple of seasons. Now I just stick with LOST and The Office, and that feels about right. Otherwise, there's always Poker on somewhere.Before you say it -- I'll watch Battlestar Galactica when I watch Battlestar Galactica
Favorite authors are Jon Krakauer, Mark Leyner, Stephen Hunter, David Mamet, Jim Thompson, Seth Morgan, Dashiell Hammett, James Robinson, Welles Hartley, Brian K. Vaughen, Jason Aaron, and a few others.If only they published fanfic anthologies. Those I'd read....
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