Bookstores, Camping, Kayaking, Fishing, Writing, Traveling, Learning to Play the Guitar, Painting...pffft, yeah right, Screening my own T-shirts, Philosophy, Geology (I'm a rock nerd), Astronomy (space nerd, too), Rockin' out to a Good Show, Driving with the top down, Tinkering with My Jeep, Darth Vader, Iago, Nostalgia from My Youth, and Left-Handed People.
Chuck Norris is suing Myspace for taking the name of what he calls everything around you.
I've known only a few kindred spirits in my time, but I've known and lost touch with some really amazing people. I'd like to know them again, or, if possible, find their familiarity in others.
I'd welcome meeting some new folks who will actually venture outside of the perimeter to wander through the outdoors (camping, hiking, biking, kayaking, fishing, etc...No, Piedmont Park does not count as the outdoors) and not care about what they might be "missing in Atlanta."
Other than that, I know there are so many very cool and creative people out there that I will never meet. I'd like to meet as many as I can while I'm stuck here. Ask me anything. I'm pretty straight up. I can be brutally honest.
In no particular order:
Misfits (danzig era, to include Samhain and early Danzig), Ramones, Concrete Blonde, The Bloodhound Gang, Faith No More, Black Flag, Butthole Surfers, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Neko Case, Black Mountain, Johnny Cash (later days), CCR, Warren Zevon, Social D, White Stripes, YYYs, Tenacious D, The Wasted, Modest Mouse, The Strokes, Interpol, Cake, Tool, The Kills, Plan 9. Most anything new pretty much sucks.
The Empire Kicks Ass, Dune, Into The Wild, Braveheart, Leon: The Professional, Black Hawk Down, Unforgiven, Walk the Line, Red Dawn, Into the Wild, Dogma, The Prophecy, The Last Temptation of Christ, Domino, Sling Blade, Bottlerocket, Lord of War, True Romance, Sunshine, Memento, Stigmata, 12 Monekys, A River Runs Through It, Tomcats, Fallen, Fight Club, The Thin Red Line, The Hunted, O' Brother Where Art Thou?, Citizen Cane, Excalibur, Donnie Darko, The Butterfly Effect, The Life Aquatic, Man On Fire, Grosse Point Blank, American Psycho, Napoleon Dynamite, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Boondock Saints, Pitch Black, Snow Walker, Gangs of New York, Three Kings, Everything Is Illuminated, Letters From Iwo Jima
Survivorman, The Shield, Rescue Me, BSG, Jericho, 4400, South Park, The Office, Deadwood and I watch the shit out of Discovery, National Geographic, Military, Science, and History Channels.
I never read a book I didn't like. Some of my favorites include:
Where the Wild Things Are, Heart of Darkness, Siddhartha, The Sparrow, On The Beach, Grendel, Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn, Ender series, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Things Fall Apart, One Man's Wilderness, Augustus, Dune series, just about anything from Kerouac, Vonnegut, James Joyce, Hunter S. Thompson, Bukowski, Salinger, Pynchon...
Currently reading: Into the Wild
johnny cash 1932-2003
you were a whirlwind in the thorntree, mr. cash
tom waits:
there's a red snapper in your pants
kurt vonnegut jr.
2.11.1922-4.11.2007
"everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt"
charles "hank" bukowski
1920-1994
"as the spirit wanes, the form appears"
leonard cohen
"there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"
joseph campbell 1904-1987
john donne 1572-1631
"death be not proud. never send to know for whom the bell tolls. it tolls for thee"
william h. bonney 1859-1881
"i never stole a horse from someone i didn't like"
oh, and this guy...