Surfing, skating, DJing, playing guitar and drums, reading, writing, listening to music, Ireland, playing golf, watching soccer, camping, road trips, the ocean, video games, tattoos, comic books, movies, drinking, bowling, shooting pool, hanging out in bars, brewing my own beer, bartending, pirate radio, drawing, painting, photography, traveling, spending time with my wife and daughter.
Almost anyone who is open-minded and intelligent.
I listen to all types of music. Everything from punk to hip-hop to rock to blues to ska to swing to metal. Let's start listing. Some of my favorites: The Clash, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello, The Replacements, Soul Asylum, Too Much Joy, Mojo Nixon, They Might Be Giants, Run-DMC, Wu-Tang Clan, Naughty By Nature, Fugees, N.W.A., Public Enemy, Rancid, Bad Religion, NOFX, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, Ben Lee, John Wesley Harding, Jonathan Richman, The Posies, The Pixies, The Specials, The English Beat, Goldfinger, Less Than Jake, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, 2 Skinnee J's, The Stone Roses, DJ Shadow, Basehead, Digital Underground, Beastie Boys, Northern State, Jurassic 5, MC Paul Barman, Buck 65, The Pogues, Black 47, The Saw Doctors, Dropkick Murphys, Dramarama, The Ocean Blue, The Trash Can Sinatras, Everclear, The Cure, The Smiths, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Beck, The Refreshments, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Concrete Blonde, The Moldy Peaches, Social Distortion, The Mr. T Experience, Green Day, Chixdiggit!, Smoking Popes, Something Corporate, The Lightning Seeds, Camper Van Beethoven, The Dead Milkmen, The Connells, Crash Test Dummies, Psychefunkapus, Transition, Box Car Racer, Nappy Roots, Phantom Planet, Modest Mouse, The Breeders, Blake Babies, Mary Lou Lord, Weezer, Nerf Herder, Tenacious D, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Garbage, Wilco, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, The Kaiser Chiefs, Caesars, Soul Coughing, Old 97's, Jets To Brazil, Cub, The Mekons, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Drive-By Truckers, Hayden, Big Audio Dynamite, Violent Femmes, Billy Bragg, The Rugburns, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, John Hiatt, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Bob Marley, Sublime, The Strokes, The Cramps, Graham Parker, Todd Snider, John Prine, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Bo Diddley, Otis Redding, The White Stripes, The Velvet Underground, Ween, Big Star, The Undertones, Iggy Pop, The Donnas, Operation Ivy, Pegboy, Material Issue, Ed's Redeeming Qualities, King Missile, Belle And Sebastian, The Rainmakers, The Godfathers, Fishbone, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Bubba Sparxxx, Outkast, De La Soul, Snoop Dogg, Murs, OPM, Fun Lovin' Criminals, The Get Up Kids, Oingo Boingo, Pato Banton, Television, Luka Bloom, Warren Zevon, Pretenders, N.E.R.D., Neutral Milk Hotel, The Jam, Gorillaz, Linkin Park, Wank, Blondie, Tommy Keene, Hoodoo Gurus, Was(Not Was), The Darkness, The Kinks, The Psychedelic Furs, XTC, The Lemonheads, The Candy Skins, Cracker, The Figgs, Loudon Wainwright III, The Raveonettes, The Secret Courtesy, The Talking Heads, Havana 3AM, Fountains Of Wayne, Gnarls Barkley, Get Set Go. There are tons more and since I love to discover new music I'm sure I'll be adding to this list constantly. Stay tuned.
Just like music, I like a wide variety of movies. Everything from weird, little independent movies to mainstream comedies to big Hollywood blockbusters. Here are some of my all-time favorite films: Trainspotting, Swingers, High Fidelity, School of Rock, Dumb and Dumber, Office Space, Ghost World, Fight Club, Dogtown and Z-Boys, About a Boy, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Anchorman, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Pump Up The Volume, Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Run Lola Run, Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Floundering, Fargo, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, The Big Lebowski, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Memento, Garden State, Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Heathers, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-baby, Pecker, Igby Goes Down, The Player, Whatever, The Tao Of Steve, The Big Empty, Old School, Raising Arizona, Shallow Grave, X-Men 1, 2 and 3, Underworld, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins(all the other Batman movies are crap, though), Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Joe Dirt, Pirates of The Caribbean 1 and 2, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi(I'm feeling generous today. On another day it might not have made the list. Stupid Ewoks!), All the Indiana Jones movies, All the Harry Potter movies, The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, The Boondock Saints, The Matchmaker, Sleepy Hollow, The Opposite Of Sex, Defending Your Life, Lost In America, Modern Romance, Down By Law, Mystery Train, Tree's Lounge, Ghost Dog, American Beauty, The Ref, Swimming With Sharks, Seven, The Usual Suspects, The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys, Sirens, Four Weddings And A Funeral, The Wedding Singer, Big Daddy, Bend It Like Beckham, Fever Pitch(WARNING!!!! I am talking about the ORIGINAL movie with Colin Firth in it, NOT the pile of shit American version!!!!!), Pulp Fiction, Bullitt, The Graduate, Master And Commander, The Blair Witch Project, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, After Hours, Jackie Brown, Election, Any James Bond film(But especially any with Sean Connery as Bond), Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Sure Thing, Gleaming The Cube, Under The Boardwalk, Point Break, The Endless Summer, Step Into Liquid, Riding Giants, Happy Gilmore, The Matrix(I've only seen the first one), Vertical Limit, Living In Oblivion, The Real Blonde, Being John Malkovich, Three Kings, Spanking The Monkey, The Lost Boys, Near Dark, The Hunger, The Princess Bride, 200 Cigarettes, Saved!, sex, lies, and videotape, The Crow, Something Wild, Married To The Mob, Back To The Future, The Goonies, Explorers, Stand By Me, Reality Bites, Threesome, Hackers, Finding Neverland, Hideous Kinky, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Miracle Mile, Box Of Moonlight, The Last Seduction, Escape From Alcatraz, Dirty Harry, Singles, Slap Shot, Body Double, There's Something About Mary, Drugstore Cowboy, This Is Spinal Tap, Napoleon Dynamite, American Splendor, Sideways, All the Alien movies, Flirting With Disaster, Lords of Dogtown, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Ice Harvest...and there will be more soon.
I try not to watch too much TV, but, I do like The Simpsons, Seinfeld, South Park, CSI, MXC, Dinner for Five(NOT Party of Five. Please do not confuse those two shows.), The Daily Show, Best Week Ever, Insomniac, Strangers With Candy, Stella, Chappelle's Show, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, Jeopardy, and Adult Swim.
It seems like a lot of people don't read anymore. Not me. Here are some books I could read again and again: Youth In Revolt by C.D. Payne, Skipped Parts by Tim Sandlin, Like A Hole In The Head by Jen Banbury, The Patricidal Bedside Companion by K.S. Haddock, The Ultimate Rush by Joe Quirk, Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs, The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke, Rule Of The Bone by Russell Banks, The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta, Everybody Smokes In Hell by John Ridley, Technicolor Pulp by Arty Nelson, 40 Watts From Nowhere by Sue Carpenter, Anything by Roddy Doyle, Anything by Nicholson Baker, Anything by Mark Leyner, Anything by Charles Bukowski, Anything by Nick Hornby, Anything by Dr. Seuss...this list could go on and on. I gotta stop sometime.
Anyone who works hard at a low-paying job. Anyone who is honest and genuinely tries to help people. Single parents who have to juggle working and raising their kid(s).