art, music, reading and gaining more truths about everything, comedy, bitching about New Jersey and knowing more about how humans operate.
More women at this point
Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett, Marcus Roberts, Buddy Rich, Christian McBride, Jeff Tain Watts, Tony Williams, Wynton Marsalis, Allan Holdsworth, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Chick Corea, Return to Forever, Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia, King Crimson, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Avishai Cohen, and millions of others.ANYTHING JAZZ, AFRO CUBAN, LATIN JAZZ, PROGRESSIVE ROCK, FUSION, FUNK, ANYTHING EXPIRIMENTAL AND ULTRA CREATIVE AND NOT CORPORATE OR BILLBOARD TOP 100YOU HAVE ALL THESE TYPES OF STYLES IN YOUR ARSENAL, WHY NOT USE THEM ALL IN YOUR MUSIC?
The Deer Hunter, Born on the Fourth of July, Full Metal Jacket, THX 1138, Pi, Solaris (the old one, not the George Clooney version) The French Connection, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Terminator 2 and many others as well as foreign films (Kurosawa, Taratkovsky, etc)
Simpsons, Family Guy, Seinfeld, Chappelle Show, Ali G, Entourage
The Rum Diary, Catcher in the Rye, See a Grown Man Cry Now Watch Him Die, Hope and Help for your Nerves.
My Parents, Henry Rollins. Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi and anyone else who cuts themself out of their own stone and is their own.