Music, movies, art. My wife Kendra. Hey, I may be married but I'm not dead!
Everyone who helped turn the 20th century into the greatest century of humanity so I can kiss them on the cheek. Then, I'd like to meet everyone who helped to break all the promises the 20th century had to offer so I can knock them out of the history books.
In no particular order:
Local H, Oasis, The Who, Rocket from the Crypt, Sonny Sharrock, The Rolling Stones, U2, Primal Scream, Cheap Trick, Toadies, Blur, Electric Six, Francesco Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, the Presidents of the United States of America, Pixies, Neil Young, David Bowie, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Cupcakes, ZZ Top, ArnoCorps, Pharaoh Sanders, Bill Laswell, John McLaughlin, Cream, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Jam, Yardbirds, George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic, Television, NY Dolls, Stiff Little Fingers, Stray Cats, Ramones, Velvet Underground, Flaming Lips, Bee Gees (their early stuff is some great psychedelic - especially the 'unreleased album'), Meters, Galactic Prophylactic, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, TV on the Radio, Lou Reed, Black Sabbath, 13th Floor Elevators, Led Zeppelin, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King, Bugs Henderson, Son House, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Doors, Sun Ra, Kinks, Beatles, Guided by Voices, Pixies, Alice in Chains, Booker T, Stone Temple Pilots. Blues (delta's where it's at and where it'll always be), rock (and all it encompasses), jazz, country (gunfighter, that is), pretty much everything. Dig everythin' from Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, San Diego, Texas (of course), England and the likes.
Films by Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, David Fincher, David Lean, Jean luc Goddard, Howard Hawks, Fritz Lang, Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, John Woo (Hard-Boiled and older), the ZAZ trio, Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, Chan-wook Park, Clint Eastwood, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Kevin Smith, John McTiernon, David Cronenberg, Quentin Tarantino, Robbie Rodriguez, Peter Jackson, Chan-wook Park, Paul Greengrass, W.C. Fields, Fred Astair, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewat, Laurence Olivier, Steve McQueen, etc. I've worked in record shops and movie shops most of my life, y'dig?
The Howard Beale Show
everything.
Orson Welles. Kendra!