Teaching, honesty, poker in its varied forms, the little ones, honesty, my beloved Saints, being a member of the Peja Stojakovic Fan Club and future shareholder of Giant-Peja-Head Wavy Sticks Incorporated, insanity, honesty, and napkins at fancy restaurants shaped into birds.
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed into a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather." - BILL HICKS"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just gonna ask where they're going, and hook up with them later." - MITCH HEDBERG
Music heals the soul.
PINK FLOYD, buckethead, opeth, primus, TOOL, ALICE IN CHAINS, nirvana, soundgarden, mad season, led zeppelin, jeff buckley, bad religion, nofx, ramones, agent orange, operation ivy, flogging molly, voodoo glow skulls, the gits, rush, gwar, ministry, SLAYER, sepultura, soulfly, hendrix, marley, crowbar, corrosion of conformity, mastodon, pantera, down, superjoint, nile, mike patton(faith no more, fantomas, mr bungle), dillinger escape plan before the crying and bitching and whining and moaning, amon amarth, suffocation, soilent green, cannibal corpse, WILLIE FUCKIN' NELSON, the highwaymen, radiohead, portishead, king crimson, fear factory, nine inch nails before 2004(when they still had charlie clauser), dj shadow, cut chemist, amon tobin, venetian snares, mos def, cypress hill, creedence clearwater revival, guns and fuckin' roses, chili peppers, frank sinatra, type o negative, i'm a complete blithering sucker for pearl jam i'm sorry, did i say pink floyd? what about buckethead? and last but never least mr. tom waits....i could go on forever actually...... DIE! FUCKER DIE!
RECENTLY -- There Will Be Blood, The Darjeeling LimitedENCOMPASSING -- The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, anything by Takashi Miike, all of George Romero's "Dead" movies, all of the John Hughes 80's films(I had the biggest crush on Molly Ringwald when i was a kid), Evil Dead 1 and 2 and Army of Darkness, The Shining, The Princess Bride, anything with Steve Martin, The Naked Gun, Where The Buffalo Roam and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas(Bill Murray is a better Thompson), Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Curse of the Golden Flower(most visually stunning movie you will ever see),the 'Alien' series, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz(dare i say HF is funnier? dare i?), Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, Snatch, all the Monty Pythons, all the Cheech and Chongs, Poltergeist, Say Anything, Falling Down, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Sin City, Seven, pretty much anything with Robert DeNiro or Jack Nicholson, Office Space, Ferris Bueller's Day Off(thank you again John Hughes)....when Cameron was in Egypt's land, let my Cameron goooooo... Little Shop of Horrors, American Beauty, Reservoir Dogs, The Usual Suspects, Identity(and just about anything else with John Cusack), old Sonny Chiba movies(street fighter, return of the street fighter), The Departed(every time i hear that music i think someone is about to die, you know what I'm talking about).. i actually like a whole bunch of fuckin movies so we'll just leave it at that for now my brain hurts.
Not too much TV anymore but the best show ever is HOUSE! Adult Swim when it still had Sealab 2021, The Simpsons, poker, FUCK THE NEWS(except for the daily show and the colbert report), Penn and Teller:Bullshit!(best show noone has ever seen), FAMILY GUY IS AN OVERRATED HACK OF A SHOW, South Park, and Sanford and Son. Hell yeah RIP Redd!
George Carlin - Napalm and Silly Putty, George Carlin - More Napalm and Silly Putty, Doyle Brunson - Super System(1 and 2), all of 'Action' Dan Harrington's poker books, anything 'Far Side' with Gary Larsen, The Laughing Classroom, and Stand Up For Your Life
My papaw the superhero, and my mom.... i swear to you i'm gonna make you both proud if it is the last thing i do. I may have not been the golden child after all, but at least you got through to me in time. Forever in debt. Oh and Bill Hicks and George Carlin, although the fact that they're dead kinda pisses me off a little. 8)