Anything that requires some sort of intelligence usually interest me. The same as everyone else also apply: friends, music, photography, movies, art, parties, food, hacky-sack, cultures, politics, nature, animals, literature, and to be perfectly honest a lot of things! So feel free to bring up any subject.
I value knowledge and intellectual stimulating conversations above anything else . . . if you can achieve that with me, you gain my respect and admiration.
I'm into a little bit of everything. I could listen to mellow music one second and just with a click of the Ipod to hardcore music . . . I can sit back and enjoy some blues or jazz with a good book and java or be in a pit moshing to an amazing guitar solo. Uh yeah, bands and artist I listen to are: 25 Lines, 30 Seconds to Mars, 311, ac/dc, afi, Adam Ant, A Heartwell Ending, Alanis Morissette, Amber Pacific, Angels & Airwaves, Arash, The Arcade Fire, Art Brut, Arctic Monkeys, Atreyu, Audioslave, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Bee Gees, Ben Folds Five, Berlin, Billy Joel, Blondie, Bob Dylan, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, BRIGHTEYES, Broken Social Scene, Cafe Tacuba, Caifanes, Cherry Poppin' Daddys, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, THE CLASH, Coldplay, Commander Venus, THE CURE, Cyprus Hill, Daft Punk, Damian Marley, Dashboard Confessional, Dead Disco, Death Cab for Cutie, Deftones, Depeche Mode, DESAPARECIDOS, The Doors, Dr. Dre, Ducan Dhu, The Eagles, Earth Wind and Fire, ELEFANT, El Tri, EMERY, Eminem, Enanitos Verdes, Fall Out Boy, Fenix TX, Finch, Fleetwood Mac, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou, Gang of Four, Gary Jules, George Michaels, Godsmack, Gorillaz, Greenday, Guns N' Roses, Haifa Wehbe, Heroes del Silencio, Him, Hombres G, Homegrown, Incubus, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Jaguares, James Brown, Jason Mraz, Jet, Jimmy Eat World, John Legend, Johnny Cash, Jose Jose, Joy Division, Justin Timberlake, Keane, Kill Hannah, The Killers, Kittie, Korn, Ladytron, La Ley, Lamb of God, La Oreja de Van Gogh, La Sonora Santanera, Lazlo Bane, Led Zeppilin, Le Tigre, Likin Park, Lily Allen, Lit, Local H, Los Abandoned, Los Pinguos, The Mamas & Papas, Mana, Matisyahu, Metallica, Metric, Misfits, Morningwood, Morrissey, Moving Units, Muse, Mustafa Sandal, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, Nekromantix, Nelly Furtado, New Found Glory, NIGHTMARE OF YOU, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Doubt, Oingo Boingo, Os Catalepticos, Panic! At The Disco, Park Ave, Pete Yorn, Pink Floyd, Placebo, Plain White T's, Queen, RADIOHEAD, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, Raise Your Hands, The Ramones, Rammstein, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Regina Spektor, Ricardo Arjona, Rise Against, Rock Kills Kid, Rooney, Saves the Day, Say Anything, Say Hi To Your Mom, Scorpions, SENSES FAIL, Sex Pistols, Shakira, She Wants Revenge, The Shins, Shiny Toy Guns, Sia, Slipknot, Smashing Pumpkins, Smile Empty Soul, THE SMITHS, Snoop Dogg, The Spinto Band,The Stars, Static Lullaby, Static X, Sting, Stone Temple Pilot, Story of The Year, THE STROKES, Sublime, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, Tarkan, Thursday, Tiger Army, Tom Petty, Tony Benett, Travis, u2, Utada Hikaru, Van Halen, The Vapors, Victimas del Doctor Cerebro, Violent Femmes, The Wallflowers, We Are Scientist, Weezer, Westside Connection, Wham, The White Stipes, White Zombie, The Who, Wolfmother, Wu Tang Clan, Zero 7, Zombies, and ZZ Top. I listen to more ... If you have recommendations I am all ears!
A good story well told is a talent but to make a good story into a vivid image requires not only talent but artistic perspective. I enjoy movies that are not a waste of my time. Here are a few that I much enjoyed: 21 Grams, 300, A Clockwork Orange, A History of Violence, The Acid House, Akira, Alpha Dog, Apocalypse Now, Army of Darkness, Azumi, Amores Perros, Battle Royale, Ben-Hur, The Birds, The Black Dahlia, The Blues Brothers, Boogie Nights, The Boondock Saints, Breakfast Club, Brick, Brokeback Mountain, Casablanca, Chasing Amy, Children of Men, City of God, Clerks, Corpse Bride, Crash, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dawn of the Dead, Day of The Dead, Deep Throat, Domino, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Everything is Illuminated, The Exorcist, The Faculty, Fight Club, Five Fingers of Death, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Girl Next Door, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Goonies, Happy Feet, Hero, Island of Lost Souls, Juno, Kids, Kill Bill 1&2, Les Enfants du Paradis, La Grande Illusion, La Haine, La Mujer de Mi Hermano, Le Pacte des Loups, Little Miss Sunshine, Lord of The Rings: Trilogy, Love Actualy, Mallrats, Maria Full of Grace, MASH, Match Point, Music & Lyrics, Naked Killer, Nosferatu, Pan's Labyrinth, The Persuit of Happiness, Pirates of The Caribbean: Deadman's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl, Pulp Fiction, The Protector, Rebel Without a Cause, Reservoir Dogs, Return of the Street Fighter, Ridicule, The Rules of Attraction, The Sandlot, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, The Seven Samurai, Shaun of the Dead, Silence of the Lambs, Sin City, Snakes on a Plane, Spider-man, Spider-man 2, Spirited Away, Star Wars Episodes II-VI, Sunset Boulevard, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Trainspotting, Transformers, Tremors, True Romance, V for Vendetta, Walk The Line, Wedding Singer, Zombie, Zombie Honeymoon, and many more.
Reading is my favorite past time. I can't think of a better way to spend my free time . . . well, I can but that's a different story. Here are only a few of my favorites: 1984, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, A Fable, Amazing Spider-man, Animal Farm, Angels and Demons, Anna Karenina, Arm Kannon, As I Lay Dying, The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, The Avengers, Battle Club, Battle Vixens, BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad, The Bible, Blame!, Buddism, Candide, A Child Called It, Civil War (Marvel), Civil War: Frontline, Color Purple, The Count of Monte Cristo, Crow Lake, The Crucible, Danger Girl, The Da Vinci Code, Deathnote, Death of a Salesmen, East of Eden, Everything is Illuminated, Evil Returns, The Evil That Men Do, Farenheit 451, Farewell to Arms, Frankenstein, The French Lieutenants Woman, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Grapes of Wrath, Hamlet, Hearts in Atlantis, Hippie to English Dictionary, House of M, How to Make Love Like A Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, The Iliad, In Cold Blood, I"S, IT, Julius Ceasar, Juror 13, Killing In the Name of God, The Kite Runner, The Koran, Kami Kaze, Karma Sutra, Lord of the Flies, Lords of Baseball, Lost Boy, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and other clincal tales, Memoirs of a Geisha, A Midnight Opera, National Geographic, New Avengers, Night, The Odyssey, Of Mice and Men, Oliver Twist, One Hot Summer, The Origin of Species - 6th Edition, The Other: Evolve or Die, Pastel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Red Badge of Courage, Remote, Revenge of The Sinister Six, Rich Kid-Smart Kid: Giving Your Child a Financial Head Start, Romeo and Juliet, Sex Drugs and Economics: An Unconventional Introduction to Economics, She's Come Undone, The Shining, Sin City, Smithsonian Musuem: Animal, Smithsonian Musuem: Human, Spectacular Spider-Man, The Stand, StarGirl, The Taming of a Shrew, Tarzan of the Apes, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Three Musketeers, TommyKnockers, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Tuxedo Gin, The Sound and the Fury, Ultimate Spider-Man(series), Ultimate X-men, V for Vandetta, Villa and Zapata, Voyage to the Center of the Earth, The Walking Dead, War & Peace, Y:The Last Man, Yonen Buzz, Zombie Powder, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, etc...