my kids, the church of the subgenius, streetfighting, gardening, latin, the middle east, religion, the greeks, travel travel travel ( for travel's sake- the great affair is to move), the beat generation, reading, writing, evil, pragmatism, mountain biking, ascending city rooftops, lately buddhism (don't just do something- sit there), motorcycles ( i have an old honda 550 with a skeleton head on the gastank. it's beat to hell but it runs like a scalded dog), politics, baiting republicans, wu shu, cooking, nutrition, first editions, screaming revolution, no stopping til the sun comes up... and charlie burns.
senator robert byrd, beelzebub, bill clinton, rob zombie, ariel sharon, the heavy metal warrior (again), len's ex in a motel 6 (er.. again), ted koppel, richard engel, moshe dayan, roger angell (eb white's stepson and writer for the new yorker), sergio mora, alfonso gomez, kerouac's daughter, the white rabbit and ray bradbury, if he lives still.
white zombie, beethoven, mr bungle, powerman 5000, concrete blonde, ccr, stardust superkill, glam, smf,
the color of paradise, wes anderson, errol morris, the coen brothers and rob zombie.
old twilight zone, seinfeld and nightline.
celine celine celine (did i mention celine? my most treasured possession is an uncut first edition of la voyage au bout de la nuit, circa 1932), miller, singer, kerouac, white, thurber, parker, asimov, dick, heinlein, gibson, bradbury, orwell, camus, the greeks, halliburton, bukowski, fante, melville, steinbeck, hem, gogol (you can keep the rest of the russians, those hacks. except maybe solzhenitzyn.. and kafka. but kafka was a pole anyway), dahl, james (william, not henry), some sartre, the new yorker, buck, service, sandburg, eliot, zola, dos passos, hst, capote (fucking love capote), early king, wolfe (tom, not thomas), hesse, conrad, aquinas, tzu (sun, not lau), some salinger, clemens (really dig innocents abroad), vonnegut, bellow, sachs, mccullers (by far the best woman writer of all time, followed closely by parker), the freak brothers, kesey (one of my favorites, although he sank fast when he hit his forties), some uris, alger (who the hell can not love alger?), serling, kazantzakis and stendhal- "i see but one rule: to be clear. if i am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing." yaz indeed.