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Raising my AWESOME daughter, Animation, Movies, Music, Sports (Sacramento Kings, San Diego Padres, Phoenix Suns, New York Yankees, LA Clippers, Miami Dolphins, UCLA Bruins) Basketball, Baseball, Football, Surfing (I don't know how to, but I'd like to learn), Guitar (currently learning), Trumpet (I don't play it, I just love it), Wrestling, Masked Mexican Wrestlers (Blue Demon rocks!), Samurai, Edo Period Japan, Horror, Roller Coasters, the Beach, San Diego, Coronado Island, Taos, Colonial Mexico, Vintage Posters/Graphic Art (Mexican, Russian, French), TOYS (action figures, vinyl figures, collectibles), the color Orange (since I was a little kid), BBQ (man...this list is long!), Cars (muscle & Hot Rods), Halloween (Elvira is so hot), Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Vintage Cabaret Dancers/Cigarette Girls, Video Games (how dare you judge me, snob!), family, lemonade, Popeyes' (yum), Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles (yum), Carne Asada, Orange Julius, Jamba Juice, Jake's in Monrovia, Pecos Bill in Glendale, Pete's in Eagle Rock, Casabianca in Eagle Rock, Netflix & FRISCOS!
People who are enthusiastically trying to live clean lives. People who stand up for things they believe in. People who don't live up to be stereotypes. People who don't impose their beliefs on others. People who love loving. Actors. Fellow directors. Fellow writers. Fellow animators. Fellow IDEAlists. Artists. I'd like my own Iron Giant. I got to make Martin Scorsese laugh once. Damn, I'd love to formally meet HIM.
Metallica, the Clash, Alice in Chains, the B-52s, Go Betty Go, the Arctic Monkeys, the Shins, Count Basie, Nirvana, Molotov, Django Reinhardt, Rob/White Zombie, Gorillaz, Hot Hot Heat, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, the Buzzcocks, a Tribe Called Quest, the Arctic Monkeys, R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie & THE ELECTRIC MAYHEM!. Punk, Rock, Jazz (Big Band, Bebop, Swing, Moody/Soulfull, Fusion, Free), Doo Wop, Hip-Hop, Mariachis, San Diego's 91.1 (the X!), Alternative & Indie 103.1 fm, XM Lucy & the ALL PUNK XM Fungus 53.
the Empire Strikes Back, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Ed Wood, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Iron Giant, Goodfellas, Seven Samurai, the Birds, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Transformers: the Movie (animated), Bicycle Theives, Shaun of the Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Dawn of the Dead (2004), Bubba Ho-Tep, School of Rock, Kill Bill, Donnie Darko, Amores Perros, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Santo en el Museo de Cera, Touch of Evil, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Casino, Cape Fear, Mean Streets, Frankenstein, Freaked, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, El Mariachi, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Drunken Angel, Throne of Blood, Stray Dog, the Evil Dead series, Spider-Man 1 & 2, Sunset Blvd., Lost in Translation, Mad Monster Party, Batman Begins, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, the Rock, True Lies, the Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan, O' Brother Where Art Thou, Sweet & Lowdown, a Bug's Life, Monsters Inc., the Back to the Future Trilogy, the original Star Wars Trilogy, Star Wars Clone Wars, Thumbsucker, An American Werewolf in London, Sleepy Hollow, Six-String Samurai, Dr. Strangelove, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, The Karate Kid I & II, Nacho Libre, the Man Who Planted Trees, Crac!, TMNT, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Bridge to Terabithia, the Departed, 300, Lemony Snickets, Children of Men, Hot Fuzz, Transformers (Live Action), Monster Squad, V For Vendetta...
ALL I HAVE TIME FOR IS the Venture Bros!, the Office and Ghost Hunters. I've also enjoyed My Name is Earl, Samurai Jack, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Korgoth of Barbaria, Home Movies, Metalocalypse, the Boondocks, the Colbert Report, Acceptable TV, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, Mission Hill, King of the Hill, the Andy Milonakis Show, Wonder Showzen, Freaks & Geeks, Undeclared, Spaced, American Chopper, Overhaulin', Independent Film Channel, Turner Classic Movies and a daily dose of ESPN News. OLD SKOOL: G.I. Joe, Transformers, Spider-Man & his Amazing Friends, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, SilverHawks, C.O.P.S., MASK, Batman: the Animated Series, Tiny Toon Adventures, Freakazoid!, Robotech, Superman: the Animated Series, Masters of the Universe, Voltron, Heathcliff, Garfield & Friends, Muppet Babies, the Wonder Years, Batman, Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy, TopCat, Looney Tunes, almost everything on Reelz Channel & 30 Rock.
The Sun Also Rises, the Old Man & the Sea, In the Year of the Boar & Jackie Robinson, Where the Sidewalk Ends, a Light in the Attic, the Giving Tree, the Raven, the Bells, Annabel Lee, the Tell-Tale Heart, Rebel Without a Crew, RES magazine, Tu Ciudad magazine & ANIMAL FARM. Ernest Hemingway, Shel Silverstein, Edgar Allan Poe. Some graphic novels/comic books too: Fell, the Spirit, Madman Atomic Comics.
Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Tim Burton, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, James Cameron, Steven Soderberg, Kevin Smith, Steven Spielberg, Genndy Tartakovsky, Jackson Publick, Frederic Back, Shinichiro Watanabe, Chuck Jones, Don Hertzfeld, Jorge Gutierrez, Sandra Equihua, PES, Vittorio de Sica, Zack Snyder, Atticus Finch, Charles Barkley, Toshiro Mifune, Spider-Man, Brock Samson, Speedy Gonzales, Steve Nash, David Letterman, Spike Spiegel, the 3 Stooges, the Marx Brothers, Joe Strummer, Tyler Durden, Henry Rollins, my parents (for breaking their backs for my sister and I) and anyone/everyone who use their imaginations for the good/advancement of mankind.