Sleeping. Journalism. Sex. Eating. Music. Money. Poetry. Legends.
Dave Grohl, Wu Tang Clan, a real viking, Henry Weinhard, self aware bus drivers, cannibals, Dave Mustaine, firedancers, bountyhunters, high school chemistry teachers, moustache DJs, anyone who owns a sword, my alter ego, Axl Rose, overly sensitive golfers, Silver Surfer, balding women, bullriders, Lars Ulrich so I can pee on him, giants, Aesop Rock, Henry Rollins, graffiti artists, Chuck Klosterman, John Coltrane, Jim Hendrix and all the other dead heros in my dead hero booklet and you, if you're not an asshole.
Listen to it, appreciate it, create it.
Bands I've interviewed: Slayer, Megadeth, Sebastian Bach, Testament, Nikki Sixx, Meshuggah, Unearth, Danzig, Mastodon, Shadows Fall, Bullet For My Valentine, Patton Oswalt, Henry Rollins, Tenacious D, Devildriver, Nickelback, Down, As I Lay Dying, Clutch, 36 Crazyfists, Deicide, Ankla, Trivium, Daath, Devildriver, The Red Chord, Job For A Cowboy, Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad), I Killed the Prom Queen, Les Claypool, Dragonforce, Atreyu, The Human Abstract, Five Finger Death Punch, Warbringer, Hatebreed, 3 Inches of Blood, Max Cavalera, Lamb of God, Mushroomhead, Machinehead, God Forbid, In This Moment, Hell Yeah, Mudvayne, Isis, It Dies Today, Annihilator, Kittie, Arson Anthem, The Ocean, Every Time I Die, Obituary...and the list shall continue...
Ed norton, jokes, violence, guns, road trips, jokes, vengeance, a good soundtrack, terror, enlightenment, drinking, scenes from new zealand mountain ranges, retribution, val kilmer, djs, philosophy, drug wars, heists, ninjas, ed norton, slow motion sword battles, Scarlett Johanson, booze, and pranks on innocent people are always things that make a pretty decent movie.
Ninja Warrior and 55" HD.
Ken Kesey, Graham Greene, Charles Baudelair, Thomas Mann, Plato, Virginia Wolf, Hunter Thompson, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Jack Karoac, Kurt Vonnegut, Dave Eggers, Tom Robbins, William Burroughs, Steinbeck, Bukowski, and Henry Miller, Kurt Cobain, Chuck Palahniuk, David Foster Wallace, William Vollman, Hemingway, Hesse, Orwell and..............yeah.
My parents. Hunter Thompson. Frank Zappa. P.T. Anderson. Bill Hicks. the drummer for Def Leppard. Bill Maher. Victor Wooten. Lenny Bruce. Megatron. Hendrix. Nugent. Dimebag. Slash. Spike Lee. Les Paul. Sidhartha. Lao Tzu. Sri Aurobindo. Old men in nursing homes who speak firmly and with impeccable timing. My 8th grade math teacher becuase he played drums in a rockband in his offtime. Al Pacino. Howard Stern. Jim Ladd. Mitch Mitchel. John Coltrane. Chris Farley. Primus. Snake Eyes. Storm Shadow. Wolverine. Junkyard Dog and Andre the Giant. Richard Pryor. Bruce Lee, Bob Dylan and yeah. People like that.