Drums; philosophy; music with an edge be it funk, jazz, "metal", or indie; chilling at home; good coffee; laughing at myself and at other's expense; football - the 5 Time Superbowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers!!! and the 'Skins - sipping gin, single malt scotch, or SoCo often and when I can, nothing better than a good beer and barbeque...
Bono, Thom Yorke, Jesus, Kierkegaard, Charles Manson, Page Hamilton, Dennis Chambers, anyone I can have an intelligent conversation with that is beyond idle chatter, yet not lame, or who I can jam with for a while...
King's X, The Dears, Blonde Redhead, The Appleseed Cast, Film School, Meshuggah, Longwave, Televise, The Thermals, Ivy, Green Marie, Radiohead, Deftones, Helmet, Interpol, Fear Factory, Broken Social Scene, NIN, REM, U2, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Curtis Mayfield, Doobie Brothers, Parliament, Mountain, Brothers Johnson, Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Slowdive, Sigur Ros, Boards of Canada, BRMC, Filter, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Zombies, Pink Floyd, SOD, Primus, Rush, PJ Harvey, Beck, Tracy Bonham, Anthrax, Elefant, Ambulance Ltd., The Verve, Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Beta Band, Spiritualized, A Perfect Circle, you get the idea...maybe.
Children of Men, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Departed, Borat!, Little Miss Sunshine, Mullholland Dr., Blade Runner, Garden State, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Alphaville, To Kill a Mockingbird, Donnie Darko, The Life Aquatic with Captain Zissou, Starsky and Hutch, Wedding Crashers, Mystery Men, Dark City, Vanilla Sky, 12 Monkeys, The Matrix, Donnie Brasco, Airplane!, The Naked Gun, Monty Python in general, Dogma, Best in Show, This is Spinal Tap, The Village, Memento.
The Deadliest Catch, Law and Order - it's always on; Scrubs, The Office, My Name is Earl, Headbanger's Ball, Survivor, The Amazing Race.
Brave New World, Either/Or, Till We Have Faces, Foucault's Pendulum, Purity and Danger, The Evolving Self, Travels in Hyperreality, Boundaries of Our Habitations, Simulacra and Simulation, Atticus
Einstein, Jesus, James Clerk Maxwell, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Galileo Galilei, John Lennon, John and Edward Tilly (my ancestors on the Mayflower), Buddy Rich, St. Augustine, Simone Weil, John Calvin.