- music - I'm a musician, so it stands to reason.
- Literature - I read more than some people eat. See "Books"
- poker - yep, I'm one of the legions of "Hold 'em" players out there these days. I love the strategy
- Art - I attended Paier College of art a century ago, and used to hand-render a lot (mostly in ink) The computer was a great natural extension of this. As a graphic designer, I'm into the bold, simple graphic statements in poster art and stenciling and the like (like Banksy).
- Football - It's the one sport I like to watch. I'm a NY Giants fan. This is an odd year to be a Giants fan... will they ever get it together? Stay tuned.
[Anything else you might want to know about me, I'd have to tell you in person]
Alexander Pope. Oh, and anyone who creates. Artists, musicians, writers, poets and the like--you're all essential to the grand scheme of things, and I'd love to connect. Christ, that sounds trite.
Latest finds: Til Willis . Also, check Eric Lichter and Rachid Taha !
I dig everything rock, excepting cheesy metal, pop punk (though I like Green Day well enough) and hair bands (alright, alright EL - I like some of that shite...). Mostly, I like what you'd term "classic rock", though I can't stand that moniker - to me it suggests shite like Foghat, Deep Purple Freebird and Stairway - not my cup of tea (though there may be a great song in that mix, like 'Hush' by Deep Purple).
I like Early Zeppelin (powerful and bluesy - just ignore the lyrics), Late Zeppelin (okay, I just like Zeppelin), Beatles, Lennon, Early to mid-70's Stones (Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, etc.), Bowie (before he got cheesy in the eighties, and when he was cheesy in the 80's), Clash, early Who, Sex Pistols, Yard Birds, Big Star, Black Crowes (as "southern" as I've ever gotten...), Nirvana, Soul Coughing, The Police, Elvis Costello, Beck, Sneaker Pimps, Zappa (my first concert), Foo Fighters, QOTSA, Ozomatli (thanks Trav) and a bunch of other shite that I can't remember at the moment and don't care to wrack my brain over.
Most of my predelictions come from the fact that I'm a guitar player and like certain styles of music that represent (to me) cool guitar playing - big chords and riffing and cool-but-not-overblown solos (if any). Of course, some days I just like music that sounds like sonic foreplay, and fuck all that guitar shit.
My Band: Jet Black Jane
My band on MySpace: jetblackjanerock
My old band: The Kelvins
Primer (an amazing indie flick), Pulp Fiction, Austin Powers, Anchorman, The Big Lebowski, Old School, The Usual Suspects, Young Frankenstein, Wonka (the original), Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (though when I read the books, I could have sworn that Frodo and Sam were straight), Reservoire Dogs, Kill Bill I & II, In Laws (the original from the 70's - goddamned funny shit), Tommy Boy, The Godfather, Natural Born Killers, and a lot more that I'll remember later.
Lost, Heros, and pretty much anything HBO puts out, then subsequently cancels.
John Banville, Mark Z. Danielewski, Max Barry, Chuck Palahniuk, Johnathan Franzen, Nick Tosches, Salinger (forget Holden - read his short stories), Hemingway, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Charles Bukowski, Pope, Swift, Dylan Thomas, William Blake, T.S.Eliot, Tolkien, Updike, Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Locke, Descartes, Rousseau, Hobbes and the like.
In no particular order: Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Page, John Lennon, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Banksy, Swift, Pope, Danielewski, Dylan, Zappa, Bukowski, Beck, My brother Erik and more...