Fishing, going to concerts, spending time with my family, traveling, playing guitar
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."Most of them are dead (Francis Zappa, Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, Albert Einstein, Lenny Bruce, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, etc.), or I've already met them.........Bono, Bob Dylan, the guys in Moe.......and anyone that can understand my warped sense of reality. . .***We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (Oscar Wilde)
Too diverse to classify, anything with a good beat and an original sound. Jazz, Classic Rock, Modern Rock, Funk, Reagea, Rap, 80's classics, even some older country. A FEW of the countless bands I like: Phish, Frank Zappa, Bnny Goodman, Buck Owens, Wes Montgomery, Beatles, Led Zepplin, moe., Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, P-Funk, Rolling Stones, Django Reinhardt, Miles Davis, Count Basse, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Crossfade, Perpetual Groove, Duke Elligton, G. Love & the Sauce, U2, Beck, Janis Joplin, Rainbow, Syd Barret, Thelonius Monk, The Dead Milkmen, The Pixies, Green Day, BB King, Pearl Jam, Quiksilver Messenger Service, The Who, Janis Joplin, Sonny Stitt, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Rem, Hound Dog Taylor, Peppermint Harris, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Strokes, Nirvana, Jet, White Stripes, Jimmy Smith, Keller Williams, MMW, Harry Belofante, Ramones, Incubus, Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols, Deep Purple, Velvet Underground, Cream, Allman Brothers Band, Sublime, Kinks, Bruce Springsteen, Black Crows, Harry James, Violent Femmes, Muddy Waters, Kid Rock, Beastie Boys, Max Roach, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Smith, Tribe Called Quest, Bob Marley, The Doors, Flaming Lips, Joan Jett, Dave Van Ronk, T-Rex/Marc Bolan, Donavan, ZZ Top, The Descendents, Charlie Christian, Blondie, The Monkees, The Beatles, Willie Nelson, Dave Mathews, Lynard Skynard, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Moby Grape, Mike Bloomfield, Electric Flag, Amfibian, Humble Pie, Cab Calloway, Genesis, Ween, XTC, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Mahogany Rush, The Coasters, The Marvelettes, The Chifons, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Didley, Jimi Hendrix
Swingers, Snatch, Pulp Fiction, Resovoir Dogs, Star Wars, Fight Club, High Fidelity, Clerks, Monty Python flicks, Metropolis (Silent film form the 20's), Kill Bill, Office Space, Lock Stock and Loaded Barrel, Endless Summer (or any old surf flick), Rebel without a Cause, Blazing Sadles, Dazed and Confused, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Ferris Buhler, Labyrinth, Stand By Me, Napoleon Dynamite, the Goonies, Space Balls and of all time: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
*Simpsons*
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson), The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), The Prince (Machiaveli), Catch 22 (Joseph Heller), Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde), The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster), The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), High Fidelity (Nick Hornsby), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce), Any Poetry by Arthur Rimbaud or Dylan Thomas, Big Sur (Jack Kerouac....On the Road is too obvious a choice)
Batman, my Mom, and you