Drums, Exercising, Computers, Weights, Reading, Going to shows, Movies, Traveling as much as possible, traversing the Rockies, etc.
Opeth, all things Devin Townsend, Porcupine Tree, Emperor, Cynic, PINK FLOYD!, Meshuggah, Cryptopsy, Textures, Agalloch, Tool, Primus, Necrophagist, Anata, Darkane, Chuck Shuldiner, Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal, Gordian Knot and all things Malone/Reinert, Nile, Ion Dissonance, Despised Icon, Martyr (Canada), Mercenary, Nevermore, Andromeda, Blind Guardian, Rush, Primus, jazz such as Dizzy, Miles Davis, Mahavishnu and Billy Cobham, Wynton Marsalis, John Coltrane, classical, Mars Volta, Bob Marley, MAE, fuck....just about anything except country and mall rock, but too many......NEW ONES!!!: The Faceless shreds my brain, the new Porcupine Tree is the best album EVER, the new Mithras ascends the horizons, the new Odious Mortem is of true technicality, Devin's Ziltoid the Omniscient (check my profile song!), MARCO MUTHAFUCKIN MINNEMANN (the greatest drummer in the omniverse!!), the new Dark Tranquility is their best yet, the new Dimmu is ehh but great video, more to come...img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j9/icolossus/SMStick. jpg"
Shawshank Redemption, Big Lebowski, Amistad, Master and Commander, Napolean Dynamite, Italian horror, Monty Python, Discovery shiz, Finding Nemo, Shaun of the dead, anything George Romero and all things zombie related, Lord of the Rings, Pink Floyds The Wall, too many to list
Eh, I try to stay away as much as possible so my brain doesn't melt with the exceptions of Family Guy, Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm and whatever great product HBO has to offer.
NEW ONES!!!: Cormac McCarthy's The Road (a soon to be an American classic that won the Pulitzer; a truly bleak and desolate narrative that I guarantee will blow you away!!), Ray Kurzweil's insane predictions (prepare for the Singularity weaklings!), Orsen S. Card's Enders series (just got to it), Kurt Vonnegut and his righteous outlook, J.R.R. Tolkien for chrissakes, Clive Barker - the Master of Fantastical Horror, Greg Iles, Bill Bryson, Jon Krakauer, Michael Savage, George Carlin, Nelson Demille, Greg Bear, C.S. Lewis, Washington Irving, Robert Parker, Emerson, George Carlin, Gene Wolfe (for loosing ones mind), A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole (a must read), Plain Speaking with Harry Truman, again too many.
Mother and Father who have both survived cancer. Survivors of Hurricane Katrina. We cannot forget.