Biology and evolution, linguistics, anatomy and physiology, pathology, Paula Abdul's Vibeology, definitely not astrology, remote-controlled things, remote-controlled people, Trivial Pursuit, Guitar Hero, vegetarian and vegan cuisine (and by "cuisine," I mean an English muffin with egg, veggie bacon, soy sausage, and cheddar cheese; veggie chili on top of tofu "dogs"; sauteed mushrooms and onions on rye bread with sauerkraut and dressing a la Reuben; hot Wham and cheese; that kind of stuff, although I do enjoy plenty of "healthier" junk like falafel and raw spinach and sprouts), microbeer, import beer, Maker's Mark, Jameson, alt porn, non-alt porn, parenthood, animals that don't bite my nuts, neck, or children, and big soft pillows.
Old friends/acquaintances (you know who you are), roller derby participants and aficionados, disc golfers, atheists/agnostics/Brights, tolerant people of any faith, music lovers (I'm particularly fond of a shitload of rock, punk, rockabilly, bluegrass, blues, and old country), intellectuals, intellectual strippers, Officer Friendly, the Flying Spaghetti Monster. There's a lot of people I would like to meet, but never will because they're dead.
Bob Log III , Turbonegro, Hellacopters, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Jurassic 5, Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, The Roots, Camarosmith, Nine Pound Hammer, MDC Leadbelly, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Tom Waits, Willie Nelson, AC/DC, Circle Jerks, 999, Supagroup, Agent Orange, Quadrajets , Wednesdays, Devil Dogs, New Bomb Turks, Old Crow Medicine Show, Junior Kimbrough, Muddy Waters, Sun Ra, Adolescents, Gun Club, Mos Def, Riverboat Gamblers....fuck it, this could go on forever.
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Where The Buffalo Roam, Brazil, Meet The Feebles, Bad Taste, anything from George A. Romero, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Forbidden Zone, I Heart Huckabee's, Caligula, Rushmore, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Chicago, Anchorman, Shaun Of The Dead, Sin City, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Godfather I & II, Casino, Taxi Driver, Pink Flamingos, Kung Pow, The Aristrocrats, The Princess Bride, Baraka, Riki-Oh (The Story Of Ricky),
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, MythBusters, The Daily Show/Colbert Report, House MD, The Shield, Rescue Me, Rollergirls, Nova, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Black Books, Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust, Flying Circus
Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky), Mad Cowboy (Howard Lyman), A People's History Of The United States (Howard Zinn), Plato's Republic, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche), Hunter S. Thompson, William Burroughs, The Blind Watchmaker (Richard Dawkins), Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Daniel C. Dennett), Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Perfume (Patrick Suskind), The Little Book of Calm (watch the British comedy "Black Books" if you don't know about the amazing properties of this book!)
You Should Be a Film Writer
You don't just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind.
You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a character come to life.
Chances are, you enjoy creating all types of stories. The joy is in the storytelling.
And nothing would please you more than millions of people seeing your story on the big screen!
What Type of Writer Should You Be?
Hunter S. Thompson (named my son after him), Noam Chomsky, Howard Lyman (he is the primary reason I became a vegetarian; after seeing him speak on the 2000 Spitfire Tour, I converted from hardcore carnivore to herbivore overnight), Bad Religion (back in my depressed teenage years, I was ready to slit my wrists one time--the knife was out and ready to taste blood--when "Slumber" came on my CD player. It was, for some reason, the first time I really "heard" the lyrics, and I'm alive today), Charles Darwin, whoever invented thigh-high stockings