Stand Up Comedy, Live Theater, Politics, Philosophy, traveling to New Zealand or wherever I'm not wanted by the authorities (You hear that, Luxembourg?! I was framed...FRAMED!!), hanging out with my wife and son, hiking, working out and small, pristine antique porcelain figurines painstakingly fashioned from the bones of the rare Andean titmouse by Yanomamo Indian children.
YOU! At a show! Come and introduce yourself. See my calendar of shows above. I don't list them all. Just those I feel are worth a night out. I co-produce the show at the Alano Club of Fountain Valley. Click here for the details.
If you haven't seen Bob Schneider from Austin, Texas live, you are missing one of the best musicians and performers of our day. The Clash is the greatest band of all time. I also love Wilco, Everclear, Ben Folds, Martin Briley, Barenaked Ladies, The Mars Volta, Echo & The Bunnymen, Matthew Sweet, Third Eye Blind, Johnny Cash, Sugarcult, The Beach Boys, Mozart, Bach played by Yo Yo Ma, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Glenn Phillips, The New Pornographers, Feist, 0Fountains of Wayne, Blink 182, The Editors, The Shins, The Jam, Billy Harvey, Bob Marley, Stellastar* and much, much more!
Top Ten Dramas: The Godfather, The Godfather II, The Mission, Apocalypse Now, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, Traffic, Citizen Kane, Dirty Harry, High Plains DrifterTop Ten Comedies: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Stripes, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Caddyshack, The Naked Gun, Hot Shots, Top Secret, Fletch, This is Spinal Tapp, Dumb and Dumber
Dear gods, I can't explain how totally and completely geeked I am about Battlestar Gallactica. I'm like a 12-year-old. Other shit I enjoy: Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Shield, The Sopranos, The West Wing, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 24, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Robot Chicken, Metalocalypse, Xavier; Renegade Angel, Top Chef, Iron Chef America, Intervention, The History Channel. Discovery Channel and The Ultimate Fighter.
Nonfiction: Benjamin Barber, Neil Postman, Kevin Phillips, Al Franken, David Bryson, Howard Zinn, PJ O'RourkeFiction: Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson
My Nana, my Mom and Dad, my wife, my son, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Leonardo Da Vinci, Malcolm X, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Ingersoll, Douglas Adams and all my comedian friends who take a chance every night on stage.