music, tv, films, playing guitar and bass (more so bass). i thrive off intellectual discussions.
This is me with my band MadHatt & Co. at The Heidelberg playing one of my favorite jams - "This is Fucknuts":
music is my life. i have a large collection and many favorites, here are a few [caps denotes heavy rotation]: 2 live crew, 16 horsepower, 311, A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, ac/dc, aerosmith, air, alice cooper, alice in chains, andrew w.k., ani difranco, aphex twin, THE AQUABATS, arcade fire, THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN, auf der maur, the avalanches, bad company, THE BEATLES, BECK, BELA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES, BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH, big brother & the holding company, billy squier, BILLY TALENT, bjork, THE BLACK CROWES, blur, BOB MARLEY, bob seger, bonnie prince billy, the brian setzer orchestra, BROTHER'S MAY, CAKE, THE CAT EMPIRE, the chemical brothers, CHERRY POPPIN DADDIES, chugga chugga, crash test dummies, THE CURE, custom, daft punk, dead kennedys, devo, django reinhardt, THE DOORS, duran duran, EARTH WIND & FIRE, edgar winter, EELS, epoxies, faith no more, FATBOY SLIM, focus, FRANK ZAPPA, franz ferdinand, FUNKADELIC, gob, GORILLAZ, GOTAN PROJECT, grateful dead, green day, HAMELL ON TRIAL, IKE TURNER & THE KINGS OF RYTHYM, INCUBUS, janis joplin, JIMMY CHAMBERLIN COMPLEX, JOE WALSH, JURASSIC 5, KARL DENSON'S TINY UNIVERSE, kid606, KORN, LED ZEPPELIN, LES CLAYPOOL, LIVE, MANU CHAO, marcy playground, MATISYAHU, THE METERS, MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES, mindless self indulgence, MOBY, the moldy peaches, MR. BUNGLE, MUSE, NOMO, OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, OYSTERHEAD, PARLIAMENT, peter gabriel, phil collins, pj harvey, THE POLICE, prefuse 73, THE PRODIGY, queen, quicksand, rage against the machine, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, richard cheese, river city rebels, SAM BUSH, sam roberts, SANTANA, SEU JORGE, simian, SKA KING CRAB, SMASHING PUMPKINS, soundgarden, squarepusher, STEVE MILLER BAND, STEVIE WONDER, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, STRAYCATS, talking heads, the tea party, ted nugent, TELEFON TEL AVIV, THREE AND A QUARTER, TILLY & THE WALL, the transplants, UMPHREY'S MCGEE, VAN HUNT, THE VIOLENT FEMMES, war, ZZ TOP.
I'm also a huge fan of vinyl. My collection is up to about 200 records.
anything wes anderson, coen brothers, kevin smith, don hertzfeldt, kubrik, woodey allen, or with steve buscemi, pauly shore, or christopher walken in it. all time favorites: mallrats, bio-dome, punch drunk love, the tripplets of belleville, son in law, a dirty shame, the dark crystal, bill and ted, napoleon dynamite, big fish, eurotrip, saved, i heart huckabees, saving grace, the cabinet of dr caligari, downfall, anchorman, fear and loathing, house of 1000 corpses, metropolis, melena, hotel rwanda, the life aquatic. i'm heavily influenced by german expressionalism and modern comedy.
Cartoons are amazing. and pee-wee's playhouse. oh ya, double boxset owner. pinky and the brains, dinosaurs!, animaniacs, the muppet show. popeye. futurama. harvey birdman. family guy. lucky louie. history channel. discovery channels. mind of mencia.
Comics, Where's Waldo?, A lesson before dying, A Clockwork Orange, the 9/11 commission reports, out of the shelter, affluenza, poetry, the dharma bums, pigs at the trough, pagan babies. lately been reading lots of books on film.
can't say i have any. just many people i look up to.in 8th grade i failed a paper because who i thought was my hero was not "hero" material to my teacher. what did i know back then anyway?