Bass Guitar, Criminology, Culture, Dance, Guitar, Inner Space, Kayaking, Music, Mythology, Outdoors, Outer Space, People, Philosophy, Physics, Poetry, Psychology, Roleplaying Games, Tennis, Soccer, Singing, Songwriting
all the people I've ever known in a world where I was never born
28 Days, 311, 8 Foot Sativa, A Tribe Called Quest, Alice In Chains, Arrested Development, Ash, Audioslave, Babes In Toyland, Beastie Boys, Ben Harper, Big Punisher, Billy Idol, Black Eyed Peas, Blindspott, Bloodhound Gang, Bruce Dickinson, Bush, Clannad, Collective Soul, Crowded House, Cypress Hill, David Bowie, Days of the New, Deep Purple, Deftones, Dio, DMX, Duran Duran, Electric Light Orchestra, Elton John, Eminem, Enigma, Enya, Evanescence, Faith No More, Far, Filter, Fur Patrol, Green Day, Guns N Roses, Head Like A Hole, Helmet, Homegrown, I Mother Earth, Incubus, Iron Maiden, Jerry Cantrell, Joe Satriani, K7, King Kapisi, KoRn, KRS-One, Led Zeppelin, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, L7, Live, Living Colour, Lostprophets, Mad Caddies, Mad Season, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmie's, Megadeth, Metallica, Ministry, Morphine, New End Original, Nirvana, NOFX, One Minute Silence, Outkast, Papa Roach, Pearl Jam, Pet Shop Boys, Phunk Junkeez, Public Enemy, Queen, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Ramekin, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Seal, Sevendust, Shihad, Slipknot, Smashing Pumpkins, Snot, Soulfly, Soundgarden, Spineshank, Steriogram, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime, Supergroove, Supersuckers, System of a Down, Tad, Taproot, Team Sleep, The Beatles, The Chemical Brothers, The Doors, The Foo Fighters, The Hasselhoff Experiment, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Offspring, The Police, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Prodigy, The Tea Party, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Tool, U2, Ãœnloco, VAST, Violent Femmes, White Zombie, Xzibit
The Crow (all of them), L.A. Story, Aliens (all of them), The Matrix (all of them), Star Wars (all of them), nearly anything directed or produced by Ridley Scott (like Alien, Gladiator, Bladerunner), 13th Warrior, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, Stargate, The Very Thought Of You, Hype!, Event Horizon, anything directed or produced by John Woo (like Broken Arrow, Face Off, The Big Hit)
I'm not much of a TV guy but when I do it's usually for something specific, anything that I can learn from otherwise the following - Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Rugby, Tennis, Soccer, Car Racing, Prison Break, numb3rs, Invasion, Surface, Hong Kong Phooey, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original cartoon series ideally), Thundercats, X-Men, Battlestar Galactica (mainly the new series), Dead Like Me, Weeds, ReGenesis, Heroes, Dexter, Psych, Primeval, Top Gear, (plus Discovery, National Geographic and Animal Planet Channel when I can)
most things by the following authors - David Gemmel, David Eddings, Eric (Van) Lustbader, R.A. Salvatore, Kahlil Gibran, Anne Rice, Anne McCaffrey, Timothy Zahn, Kevin J. Anderson, Jeff Grubb, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, the Dumarest Saga by E.C. Tubb, The Destroyer Series by Warren Murphy, as well as other assorted titles I've come across
my parents, my friends, Chris Cornell, Jon Crosby, Stephen Richards, and many admirable characters from books and comics