Family, Sports, especially...Football, MMA, Rugby, swimming open water ocean, snowboarding. ART, Films, Food, Meaning, Making a difference and ADRENALINE RUSH!!!
Muhammad Ali, Bono, Henry Rollins, Eminem, White girl from Black Eyed Peas, Quentin Tarantino, Anderson Cooper, Mel Gibson, Oprah and Jesus Christ
Alternative, Punk, Hip-Hop/Rap: The Clash, U2, The Cure, The Ramones, Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Nirvana, Eminem, Beastie Boyz, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Johnny Cash, and many others.
Directors: Kurosawa, Ridley Scott, David Lean, John Woo, Elia Kazan, Martin Scorsese, Doug Liman, Danny Boyle, David Fincher, Spielberg, Ang Lee, Sam Fuller, Stanley Kubrick, Baz LuhrmannFilms: Fight Club, Gladiator, Godfather, Raging Bull, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Killer, A Better Tomorrow, A Face in the Crowd, Bourne Identity, Lawrence of Arabia, The Thomas Crown Affair( the original), Saving Private Ryan, Ikiru, Dreams, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance KidActors: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Ed Norton, Sean Penn, Bruce Lee, Steve McQueen, Jeremy Lowe
ESPN Sports Center, Ultimate Fighter, Rescue Me, Nip Tuck, Yo Momma, IFC, CNN, Andreson Cooper, The Unit, Project Runway, 30 Days, Man vs. Wild, Survivor Man
Books and/or Writers that have influenced me: War & Peace, The Fountain Head, The Autobiography of Malcom X, Aristoltle Poetics and On Rhetoric, A Life By Elia Kazan, My Life in Art by Stanislavski, Crime & Punishment, The Story of Philosophy, Sanford Meisner On Acting, The Art of Dramatic Writing, In Search of Excellence and Pursuit of Wow by Tom Peter,The Artist Way, Spoon River Anthologies, Catcher in the Rye, The Republic by Plato, Tipping Point, Thoreau, Emmerson, The Bible and many other books
All the guys fighting and dying so Exxon can have $76 billion in profits and I can have gas under $3 per gallon, and not have a job waiting for them if they survive. Nothing like having the poor die so we can get rich and drive big obnoxious Hummers.