drawing & sketching, watercolor painting, writing short stories, sculpture, polaroid photography, film, making digital music, science, observing nature, playing video games, looking at maps, crabbing, riding my bike, etc.
"i shall avenge the deaths of my brothers betrayed by the red dragon clan. their brutal treachory can be matched only by my flailing eagle claw fist techinique and then they will know the meaning of the word pain." -alan was heard to say just before wraithfully vanishing into the night in a cloud of noxious smoke and flame.
darkel, air, photek, u ziq, daft punk, the beatles, david bowie, radiohead, kings of convenience, boards of canada, ben folds, badly drawn boy, sufjan stevens, spoon, nobukazu takemura, aphex twin, fischerspooner, john williams, bernard herrmann, amon tobin, the dears, source direct, interpol
anything by akira kurosawa, alfred hitchcock, or wes anderson. anything starring anthony quinn. my 5 favorite movies: the empire strikes back, north by northwest, the life aquatic with steve zissou, vertigo, mr. smith goes to washington
the twilight zone, the origianl star trek, the prisoner, monty pythons flying circus, TCM!!!, the history channel, NOVA, scientific american frontiers
the invisible man, the time machine, lone wolf & cub, i am legend, the novel "grendel" by john gardner, moby dick, akira, number five, v for vendetta, the watchmen, the league of extraordinary gentlemen, the sketchbook diaries, national geographic magazine, audobon society field guides, the oxford english dictionary, stranger (a collection of bizzare fiction), any good ghost story anthology