Winning the lottery. Skills.
Rich people who would like to finance crazy ideas. People that don't hate me. Here's my obligatory Simpsons avatar
The Beatles, Beck, Neil Young, John Frusciante, Radiohead, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, The Cure, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Elliott Smith, Blur, Damon Albarn, James Brown, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Bob Marley, The Beta Band, Sufjan Stevens, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ghostface, Biggie, ODB, Mos Def, Robert Johnson, Journey, Eddie Money, Michael Jackson, Tom Petty, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Butthole Surfers, Fugazi, Bloc Party, The Flaming Lips, Parliament, Band of Horses, Simple Kid, Cat Power, Sigur Ros, The Ramones, Modest Mouse, Pink Floyd, The Strokes, TV on the Radio, Blonde Redhead, Gorillaz, Led Zeppelin, Cat Stevens, Death Cab for Cutie, The Cars, Spank Rock, M.I.A., Mellowdrone, Oingo Boingo, Jose Gonzales, Digitalism, Spoon, Roots Manuva, The Geto Boys, Justin Timberlake, LCD Soundsystem, Sade
Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Darren Aronofsky, Terry Giliam, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Chris Nolan, Danny Boyle, James Cameron, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Tim Burton, Alfonso Cuaron, Richard Linklater.Favorites of '05--Brokeback Mountain, War of the Worlds, Wedding Crashers, Match Point, Broken Flowers. Best of '06--The Proposition, Little Miss Sunshine, Talladega Nights, The Fountain, Notes On a Scandal, The Departed. Best of '07 so far--Children of Men, Sicko, Superbad, Sunshine, Eastern Promises kicked serious ass, The King of Kong,
PBS fo' life. The Home Shopping Network, especially the Knife Collectors Show.
Catch-22, Good as Gold, Lord of the Flies, Things Fall Apart, Anthills of the Savannah, In The Belly of the Beast, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Sailing Alone Around the World, All Quiet on the Western Front, Lolita, Kon Tiki, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Crime and Punishment, Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories, All the King's Men, 1984, The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, Candide, Different Seasons, Running the Amazon, The Acid House, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to Be Good, The Power and the Glory, Stranger than Fiction, Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James, The Elegant Universe, Interview With a Vampire, Ishmael, A Clockwork Orange, The Great War and Modern Memory, The Divine Comedy, The Pearl, Jurassic Park, Alone, The Hobbit, Johnny Got His Gun, The Tao of Physics, Misc. Joseph Campbell. I pretty much like every book I read.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Isaac Newton. The Beatles. Joseph Campbell. My dad.