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music, mlb (cubs), politics, hiking, literature, ncaa, chicago, barefeet, saltwater, nfl, ellie, road trips, anti-bush anything, international affairs, red stripe, sleeping in, concerts, singing in the shower, guitar, nature, dive bars, red bull, hondas, darts, turkish golds, i'm interested in owning a monkey, mini putting, camping, random statistics, running, sportscenter, mountains, travelling, thunderstorms, laughing at other peoples' expense, happiness, business, pool, 24 hour diners and flaming hot cheetos.
Charles Bukowski and Lemmy.
a perfect circle, alice cooper, alice in chains, alkaline trio, amy winehouse, anchorman, ani difranco, bad religion, barfly, ben folds, ben harper, ben kweller, beth orton, billy idol, billy joel, bishop allen, bjork, blur, bob dylan, bob marley, braid, brand new, brandtson, brian wilson, bruce springsteen, charles bukowski, cheap trick, colbie caillat, cream, crosby stills + nash, colorado, counting crows, dave grohl, dave matthews band, david bowie, dean martin, def leppard, depeche mode, devo, dodgeball, donnie darko, duke ellington, ella fitzgerald, elliot smith, ELO, elton john, elvis, elvis costello, family guy, fiona apple, flaming lips, fleetwood mac, flogging molly, foo fighters, frank zappa, garden state, george harrison, goodfellas, grateful dead, greenday, guess who, guitar, guns n' roses, hank williams, hawkwind, hendrix, high fidelity, hollies, hot hot heat, hockey, howlin' wolf, iggy pop, incubus, independence, intelligence, iron maiden, iron+wine, james brown, jaw breaker, jeff tweedy, jerry lee lewis, jewel, john coltrane, johnny cash, johnny thunders and the heartbreakers, kanye west, kmfdm, led zeppelin, liberalists, literature, little miss sunshine, little richard, local h, lynard skynard, maceo parker, manic street preachers, marilyn monroe, midnight snacks, miles davis, mike ness, mindy smith, modest mouse, monty python, morrisey, motorhead, mullets, neil young, new order, nico, nina simone, nine inch nails, nirvana, no direction home, oar, otis redding, outcast, paul weller, paul westerberg, pearl jam, phish, piercings, pink floyd, politics, prince, the postal serivce, pro-choice, public enemy, queen, queens of the stone age, r.e.m., radiohead, ray charles, requiem for a dream, reservoir dogs, reveries, ritchie valens, rock climbing, rod stewart, rush, rusted root, rx bandits, ryan adams, sam cooke, saves the day, scarface, simon and garfunkel, sinatra, singing in the shower, slc punk, sleeping naked, snow angels, social distortion, spontaneity, stateside, steppenwolf, styx, sublime, swingers, tattoos, the beatles, the black crows, the clash, the color blue, the cure, the dead kennedys, the departed, the doors, the ellen show, the faces, The Format, the get up kids, the godfather(all of them), the good the bad + the queen, the hives, the kinks, the mr. t experience, the new york dolls, the nightmare before christmas, the police, the ramones, the replacements, the rolling stones, the sex pistols, the simpsons, the smiths, the state, the stills, the strokes, the supremes, the talking heads, the temptations, the thrills, the velvet underground, the verve, the vines, the wall, the zombies, thin lizzy, tom petty, tori amos, t. rex, u2, van halen, van morrison, velvet revolver, whitesnake, weezer, wilco, wolfmother, woody guthrie, yes, zao, zero 7, zoinks!
see: music. also, cannibal the musical.
ESPN.
Favorite Authors: Charles Bukowski, James Baldwin...books: "Ham on Rye" and "Another Country"."The History of One Tough Motherfucker"he came to the door one night, wet, thin, beaten and terrorized, a white cross-eyed, tailless cat. I took him in and fed him and he stayed, grew to trust me until a friend drove up the driveway and ran him over. I took what was left to a vet who said,"not much chance...give him these pills...his backbone is crushed, but it was crushed before and somehow mended, if he lives he'll never walk, look at these x-rays, he's been shot, look here, the pellets are still there...also, he once had a tail, somebody cut it off..."I took the cat back, it was a hot summer, one of the hottest in decades, I put him on the bathroom floor, gave him water and pills, he wouldn't eat, he wouldn't touch the water, I dipped my finger into it and wet his mouth and I talked to him, I didn't go any where, I put in a lot of bathroom time and talked to him and gently touched him and he looked back at me with those pale blue crossed eyes and as the days went by he made his first move, dragging himself forward by his front legs (the rear ones wouldn't work) he made it to the litter box crawled over and in, it was like the trumpet of possible victory blowing in that bathroom and into the city, I related to that cat-I'd had it bad, not that bad, but bad enough.one morning he got up, stood up, fell back down and just looked at me."you can make it," I said to him.he kept trying, getting up falling down, finally, he walked a few steps, he was like a drunk, the rear legs just didn't want to do it and he fell again, rested, then got up.you know the rest: now he's better than ever, cross-eyed almost toothless, but the grace is back, and that look in his eyes never left...and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover, de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!"but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?""no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!"I shake the cat, hold him up in the smokey and drunken light, he's relaxed he knows...it's then that the interviews end. although I am proud sometimes when I see the pictures later ...and there I am and there is the cat and we are photo graphed together.he too knows it's bullshit, but that somehow it all helps.-Charles Bukowski
Hank Williams Sr., JFK, LEMMY