Feudal Japan, the Roman empire, World War II, literature, comics, pro wrestling, good tunes, good flicks, good pie, hiking, reading about exotic places I'll probably never get to see, composing fiction, folklore & mythology, winter, rainy days, road trips, philosophy, D&D, Cthulhu worship.
Music:
Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Minor Threat, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Neurosis, Thin Lizzy, James Brown, Slayer, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Buck Owens, Bad Brains, Fracas, Roy Orbison, Morbid Angel, High On Fire, Celtic Frost, George Jones, Youth Of Today, Gorilla Biscuits, Dragonforce, Blind Guardian, Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, Van Halen, Wu-Tang Clan, Misfits/Danzig, Immortal, Suffocation, Ennio Morricone. . . many others.
Movies:
Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, Werner Herzog, Coen bros., Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, Russ Meyer, Takashi Miike, Shane, High Noon, the Adventures of Robin Hood, the Great Escape, the Maltese Falcon, Cool Hand Luke, Akira, RoboCop, Evil Dead, Conan the Barbarian, Smokey and the Bandit, Romero Dead films, John Woo bullet ballets, Inagaki's Samurai trilogy, Lone Wolf & Cub, Shaw bros., anything with Sonny Chiba, Godzilla. . . the list goes on.
Television:
King Of The Hill, the Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Venture Bros., Samurai Jack, the History channel, Three's Company.
Books:
Robert E. Howard, James Joyce, H.P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Alexandre Dumas, Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allen Poe, Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe, C.S. Forester, Patrick O'Brian, Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Herman Melville, Zane Grey, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Rafael Sabatini, Mervyn Peake, Folklore & Mythology, epic poetry, classical literature, Comics/Graphic Novels, historical non-fiction. . . the list is endless.
Heroes:
Beowulf, Musashi Miyamoto.
