first and foremost i like to talk to and spend time with heaven. we help each other out with a lot of stuff...after that, i like painting and arting of different sorts, fishing for bass and letting them go, skateboarding, gardening, working, not working, the hrv, the mountains, the sea, the air, the trees, gardening, landscaping, collecting every tool known to man (and using them), chainsawing, and my danner workboots.
HOME. bad brains, virgil shaw and deiselhed, elliott smith, neil young, merle haggard, led zeppelin, rush, fruit bats, t.s.o.o.l., dios malos, built like alaska, journey, suicidal tendencies (just that first record...soooo good), paul simon, black uhuru, komeda, the band, waylon jennings, howe gelb and giant sand, lefty frizzel, black flag, leels, ween, the SFA, beck, jimmy winchell, neko case (sigh), iron maiden, ELO, 100% storms ensemble, pink floyd, stevie wonder, moe bandy, bright eyes, built like alaska, bob marley and them wailers, woodie guthrie, ray price, slayer, eric satie, talk talk, neil finn, kris, wilco, hank williams, the cars, thelonius monk, robert johnson, slim whitman, earlimart, bjork, goldcard, fIREHOSE, america, loretta lynn, trans am, buck owens, barry manilow, howlin' wolf, dwight yoakam, radar brothers, bee gees, willie, ludwig v.b., thin lizzy, glen campbell, black sabbath, old, old motley crue, sparklehorse, public enemy, little wings, bowie, the elvises (presley and costello), old van halen, pavement, roy orbison, bob dylan, bobby bare, fu manchu, george jones, lots of other stuff. you know, party tunes.
THE UNFORGIVEN is probably my favorite...but i like spike jonze, paul thomas anderson, wes anderson, all 6 rockys, fast times at ridgemont high, anything with rodney dangerfield or will ferrel, in the realms of the unreal, coen brothers, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, american graffitti, vanilla sky, groundhog day, close encounters, errol morris, how to draw a bunny, the cable guy, ghost dog, dead man, all the BIG BROTHER videos, treasure of the sierra madre, big wednesday, dogtown and z-boys, the dc video, yeah right (the last girl video), hud, the last picture show, cool hand luke, the godfather 1 & 2, the outsiders, the king of comedy.........i haven't seen very many newer movies unfortunately.
project runway is my favorite television show. also on the list is: ultimate fighting, top chef, the funny animals show, south park, daily show and colbert report....
my favorite books are by john steinbeck and larry mcmurtry... i also dig john irving, BIG BROTHER MAGAZINE (not exactly a book, but when you pile a lot of them on top of each other, it's sort of book-like. and the writing was really good), the painted bird, my name is asher lev, alive, jon krakauer, geek love, jack london, farenheit 451, ishi, vonnegut.......
the HRV. also known as heaven.