Writing
Reading great Literature
Reading bad Literature
Buffy
Angel
Firefly (do you catch the Joss Whedon theme)
Clive Barker
Chritopher Moore
Janet Evanovich
Tolkien
J.K. Rowling...
and therefore all things Harry Potter.
World Travel,
though London is my favorite place to visit.
History, preferably classical civilizations.
Anthropology, preferably Egyptian and Mesopotamian Archaeology.
a PIRATE that could kick a NINJA'S ass in a cage fight
and well these two guys,
though never at the same time - I would be on fangirl overload and well the sheer geekiness would be too much!
I remember seeing bands like:
Pennywise
Unwritten Law
No Doubt
Sublime
Louis XIV
and Bowling for Soup
playing small crappy venues (i.e. the OLD Soma) long before they had radio play.
Anything Mark plays - Yep, I still have my Ed's Garage shirt.
Punk -
NOFX
Social Distortion
Less than Jake
Lagwagon
Agent Orange
Anti Flag
Ministry
Pennywise
Denali
Rancid
Bad Religion
Suicidal Tendencies.
Pop Punk -
Green Day
Good Charlotte
Bowling for Soup
Blink 182
Sum 41
New Found Glory.
Pop -
Christina Aguilera
Maroon 5.
Old School Pop -
Cindy Lauper
Madonna
Micheal Jackson.
Country -
Alan Jackson
Dixie Chicks
Teri Clark
Willie, Waylon
David Allen Coe.
Jazz –
Louis Amrstrong
Duke Ellington
Miles Davis
Benny Goodman
Billie Holliday
John Coltrane
Dizzy Gillespe
Wynton Marsalis
Ella Fitzgerald
Nina Simone.
Blues –
B.B. King
Taj Mahal
Steve Ray Vaughan
Muddy Waters
Johnny Lang
Kenny Wayne Shepard
My Morning Jacket.
Rock - too many to name.
R&B -
mostly people like Usher, Babyface, and sadly R. Kelly.
some Metal -
Rob Zombie
a few Slayer songs
some Pantera (ALL Greg's influence).
Rap -
Anything political
Ice Cube
NWA
Public Enemy
Eminem
Ice-T
Big Daddy Kane
Mack 10
Kool & the Gang
The Pharcyde
Cypress Hill
Foxy Brown
Lil Kim
Beastie Boys
LL Cool J.
Spanish music/influenced -
Los Lobos
Louis Miguel
Los Lonely Boys
Santana
NEWEST FAVORITE -- SUICIDE CLUB
Top 5:
Goonies
Clueless
Dangerous Liasons/Cruel Intentions
Indiana Jones (any)
Less than Zero.
Really I like horror films - mainly the B-movie slasher flicks of the 80s --
Sleepaway Camp 1-4
Jason takes Manhattan
Friday the 13th part II (only for the gay ennuendos)
the Howling except the wierd fourth one that takes places in Romania.
I love SPANISH films such as:
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Amores Peros
El crimen del Padre Amaro
La Mala Educacin
El Espinazo del diablo.
The exception to this is, of course, any Buffy, Angel or FireFly rerun...or Court TV
Brett Easton Ellis
Hunter S. Thompson
W. Somerset Maugham
Oscar Wilde
Byron
Keats
Shelly
Charles Bukowski
James Ragan
Jack Myers
Arthur Miller
James Patterson and Janet Evonvich
(My two guilty pleasures)
Edith Wharton
Leroy Quintana
Sherman Alexie
Anne Rice
Edgar Allen Poe
Nick Hornby
Tim O'Brien
Ambrose Bierce
Edith Wharton