I am living at the speed of light. It is all happening. I play music and paint.
Guitars, effects pedals, scuba, hiking, climbing, drinking beer, writing songs, painting, sculpting, boats
The crews of the Time Bandit and Northwestern!
The Police, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Built To Spill, The Cure, Phish, Ween, The Revolt, Meat Puppets, King Crimson, Eric Johnson, Billy Holiday, Edith Piaf, Frank Sinatra, The Bangles, Lonesome Goat, Hosmonsori, Mike Watt, 311, Butthole Surfers, Bjork, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Fandango USA, Adrian Legg, Junior Brown, John Denver, Ministry, NIN, Mike Fuller, Plastic Parachute, The Beatles, Kevimean, Josh Paulson, The Brand New Heavies, Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, Beck, Sunny Day Real Estate, Frank Zappa, Indigo Girls, The Misfits, Nitzer Ebb, Depeche Mode, Crosby Stills & Nash, Hank Williams, Sr., Cab Calloway, Little Hercules, S.O.D., Kitaro, Ben Folds, The Flaming Lips, Yaz, Charlie Shafter Band, The Dead Pets, Easy-E, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Leo Kottke, Snowcone Joe, Hector Faceplant, Void Paul Heinous, Daniel Johnston, Flip & The Fieldside Refugees,
Anything by David Lynch (especially Eraserhead.) Star Wars (all of them), All of the National Lampoon Vacation movies, What About Bob? Dumb & Dumber, all the Indiana Jones movies (of course), Lord Of The Rings, Matrix (all of 'em), Sleeper, Nightmare On Elm St. (all of 'em), Monty Python (anything, but Life Of Brian especially!), Dead Poet's Society, Mysterious Island, Jason & The Argonaughts, Clash Of The Titans, The Beastmaster (only the 1st one), Critters (all of them), Alien & Aliens, Voltron, Vampire Hunter D, The Lost Boys, The Shining (old one), Creepshow: The Raft (this has haunted me for years...), Yellow Submarine, Night of the Living Dead (B&W Romero classic), Seven Years In Tibet, Best In Show, The Emerald Forest, The Gods Must Be Crazy I & II, Revenge Of The Nerds, The Jerk, TeenWolf, Better Off Dead, Weekend At Bernie's, Shultze Gets The Blues, Batman Begins, Enemy Mine, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, I Heart Huckabees, The Last Starfighter, The Devil & Daniel Johnston...
The Deadliest Catch. The Office.
Anything by Tom Robbins, Stephen King, Aleister Crowley, Marqi De Sade, John Lennon, Herman Hesse, Kama Sutra, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Naked Lunch, On The Road, A Clockwork Orange, Catcher In The Rye, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, various books on mountaineering like Freedom of the Hills, PADI dive manuals, most comic books (especially Batman), H.P. Lovecraft, Hunter S. Thompson, The 72 Names Of God (Technology for the Soul), anything by Mark Twain, all Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lewis Carroll, Extreme Alpinism by Mark Twight, Tom Brown's Field Guide To Wilderness Survival, Tao Of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee, Awakening The Buddhist Heart by Lama Surya Das, The Secret Life Of Lobsters, Cormac McCarthy, Stephen Graham Jones...
Time Bandit crew, Sig Hansen, Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins, Sheck Exley, Reinhold Messner, Bob Moog, Jorges Tripp, Kurt Cobain, George Harrison, Mike Watt, our men & women in the Armed Forces, Kramer, David Gilmore, Gregg Jones (dad), Bob Vela, Salvador Dali, Gary Gentile, John Chatterton, Yehuda Berg, Robert Smith, Frank Zappa, Burt Rutan, Albert Einstein, Bob Marley, Homer Coffman (grandfather), the guy that invented the Pet Rock, Kevin Costner, The Marx Brothers, Richard Pryor, Conrad Anker, anyone that reads actual books... width="425" height="350" ..