life, death, energy, perception. Martial arts, snowboarding, hiking mountains. Reading, writing, visual media, music, film. Traveling. Meeting new people of unique intellect and strong self-awareness.
fellow artists, philosophers, atheletes. Pen-prophets and paradigm-shift perpatrators. Beautiful women (skin-deep & beyond), mediaverse navigators, amusing malcontents, brainiacs. no manic-depressives, cynics, camwhores or stalkers, please.
Some of my favorite artists... Electronica: Future Sound of London, Sasha, Hybrid, Aphex Twin, Susumu Yokota, Pole Folder, Shiloh, autechre, Leftfield, New Order, Way Out West, Underworld. -[]- Rock: Stones, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zep, Dire Straights, U2, Byrds, early Dylon. -[]- Classical: Ludwig & Wolfgang, A. Borodin, Bartok, Gustav Mahler, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Resphigi, Williams (Vaughn and John), Bach, Strauss (Johann et al...), Hadyn, Debussy, Liszt, Belioz, Joe Hishiashi, Nobuo Uematsu, Tomita, Shore, Hans Zimmer, Ritchie Wag. -[]- Metal: Def Leppard (poodle gods!), Guns n' Roses (LA facsimile is enuf for me), Tool, Opeth, Amorphis
Peter Jackson, Wachowski bros, Zhang Yimou, Wong Kar Wai, Scorsese, Kubrik, Takashi Kitano, David Fincher (well, Fight Club at least), Coen bros, Miyazaki, Takashi Miike, David Lynch, Spielberg and Lucas, Alex Payne, Mamoru Oshii, Chan-wook Park, Tsui Hark, FF Coppola (70's), Tarantino, Aronofsky, Welles, (early) Van Zant, Ang Lee, (some) Soderberg, etc. etc.
Ice Skating, Xtreme Sports, Iron Chef, Sopranos, Max Headroom, Faulty Towers. Lately: Lost, Firefly, Rome, The Office, Iron Chef America
A friend once paraphrased Nabokov in telling me that the art of reading is in *re*-reading. So, in no particular order, the authors on my bookshelf I wouldn't mind spending the time on a re-read: Willie Shakes, Dante, Homer, Virgil, Nabokov, Balzac, Borges, Melville, Sir Walter Scott, J. Joyce, Henry Miller, Flaubert, Zola, Stern, Cormac McCarthy, Umberto Eco, E. Rauch, Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Alex Dumas, Edward Allen Poe, Victor Hugo, P.G. Wodehouse, Aldous Huxley, J.D. Salinger, Philip K. Dick, Lao-tzu, Marcus Aurel, Plutarch, Procopius, Euripedes, Petronius, Tacitus, Livy, Suetonius, Caeser, Seneca, Juvenal, Sophocles, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Arrian, Psellus, Ariosto, Swift, Voltaire, Schopenhauer, d.h. Laurence, Milton, Machiavelli, Freddy Nietz, Baudrillard, Marx, Jung, Harold Bloom & Howard Bloom, Camille Paglia, Ken Wilber, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edward Abbey, John Crowley, Jan Potocki, Thomas Pynchon, Garth Ennis, Hiroaki Samura, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, E.C. Segar, Irvine Welsh, Bruce Sterling, Doulgas Rushkoff, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austin, Dickens, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, Gibbon, Plato and his homeboys, Gibson, Stephenson, R. Scott Bakker, Tolkien and George RR Martin, Steinbeck and Hemingway, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekov, Montaigne, Conrad, Stephen King (!), L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, James Clavell, Frank Miller, Mishima, etc. etc.
Takashi Miike, Balzac and Sir Richard Francis Burton. Oh, and the ubernerd of course.