Writing(all types), Reading(voraciously), Painting, Talking to intelligent beings, Thinking deeply--really it's fun, meditating, Acting, Singing, Screwin around with instruments--bass,elec guitar, piano, harmonica, kazooand whatnot, Rock-n-Roll, Watching movies, Chillin(and all that includes...no need for details...{puffpuff...coughcough...ahem...}), Drivin my car, love Dogs and Cats (especially my parent's cat Druid (19 yrs.old), and my baby kittens Neal Cassady and Cosmic Charlie and all God's creatures, Going out, fishin boatin and swimmin when weather's good(where i am presently it ain't too often)--hiking, camping...makin love to my good man Davey, constantly-...outdoor contemporary-hippy festivals...runnin with wolves...runnin with Davey I like anything really and everything...but most especially that which creates happiness...the happiness of all sentient beings is of great concern to me... working presently on an ongoing collection of spontaneous poems and essays, some of which could be called "gonzo poetry" I suppose..."Take-Down-Type" its called, and writing some songs when I get the mood Want to own a motorcycle(Harley) someday in not so distant future--also want to learn to surf...want to become a Bodhisattva someday...most importantly Now want to start my career and a family, live my dreams more, see, and just Be...
Any One who is hip and compassionate--those who believe in and uphold the ideals of Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Love...and those who are of a higher mind capacity are appreciated especially...but really any kind, good, wise shining soul of a dharma bum... Bodhisattvas are ALWAYS welcome...:) PEACE, LOVE, AND UNITY
Including (but ceratinly not limited to--as it would probably take hours for me to list them all, and in no particular order)--The Grateful Dead, The Stones, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Sublime, Iggy Pop(and the Stooges), Bowie, The Guess Who, G-n-R, Hendrix, The Doors, Three Dog Night, Bob Dylan, House of Pain, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beatles, Clapton, Jeff Beck, The Who, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Big Brother and The Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Steppenwolf, The Youngbloods, The Yardbirds, The Animals, The Police, Duran Duran, Motley Crue, Poison, Nirvana, Velvet Revolver, Jet, The White Stripes, Pink Floyd, Phish, The Eagles, The Ramones, Neil Diamond, Wings, Billy Idol, Beethoven, Cash, CCR, CSN&Y, Buffalo Springfield, The Temptations, The Four Tops, James Brown, Cypress Hill, Dre, Snoop Dogg, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Taj Mahal, Cream, Tom Petty, classical music as a whole, Hank Williams, Rickie Nelson, Tammy Wynette, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry,Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynne, Eddie Cochran, Jethro Tull, etc...et.al... I just like shit that doesn't suck. That's RIGHTEOUS baby. That's got soul. Period, jim.
Including but not limited to blah, blah, blah--A Clockwork Orange, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Royal Tenebaums, Rushmore, The Darjeeling Ltd., Trainspotting, Easy Rider, Rebel Without a Cause, Bullitt, The Boondock Saints, Caddyshack, Papillon, Road Warrior + Mad Max, The Great Escape, Arthur, Requiem for a Dream, The Graduate, The Godfather, Scarface, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind, Velvet Goldmine, Five Easy Pieces, 2001, Silence of the Lambs, The Shining, Moulin Rouge, Desperado, The Lost Boys, The Wall, House of 1000 Corpses, Naked Lunch, Traffic, The Virgin Spring, 2001 a Space Odyssey, Die Hard, James Bond 007(Connery is .1, naturally, Craig.2, Dalton.3, Moore.4, Brosnan.4...), 1984, What's New Pussycat?, The Pink Panther(original of course), Dr. Strangelove, Where the Buffalo Roam, Frankenstein (orig.), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Vanilla Sky, Halloween, Bringing up Baby, Casablanca, On the Waterfront, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Hours, The Yellow Submarine, Wuthering Heights (orig. espec.), Apocalypse Now, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Wonderland, Blow, Boogie Nights, Dirty Harry, Almost Famous, It's a Wonderful Life, Citizen Kane, Sympathy for the Devil, Gimme Shelter, Bottle Rocket, Last Man Standing, The Getaway,etc..etc...
(Don't watch much anymore, but these are my favorites past+present--) Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Ren+Stimpy, Muppets, Fraggle Rock, Looney Tunes, Cheers, Six Feet Under, Sex+City, Sopranos, The Maxx, My so called life, The State, SNL(classic), Captain Kangaroo, Fat Albert, Mr.T, That 70s Show, Simpsons, Family Guy, Frasier, pee-wee's playhouse, Northern Exposure...
WAY and I mean way too numerous to mention, but see heroes below for names of authors that I admire and whose books I adore-----James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake are the best books ever written, anything by Kerouac RULES, Watership Down By Richard Adams is a little known novel that is AMAZING, and I've loved since I was a child, and Thomas Tryon wrote some killer scary novels in the seventies like Harvest Home and The Other...
Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, Alexander The Great, Steve McQueen, Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, Brad Nowell, Marcus Aurelius, William Shakespeare, the lovers, Fyodor Dostoevsky, my parents, Franz Kafka, Arthur Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Plato, Thomas Wolfe, the strange, William Faulkner, Tenessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Winston Churchill, Aristotle, Robert E. Lee, U.S. Grant, Reagan, some certain sociopaths, Lou Reed, Lincoln, Socrates, Teddy Roosevelt,Sean Connery, Sigmund Freud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Hubert Selby Jr., D.H. Lawrence, Cortez, Raoul Duke, the downtrodden destitute and depraved, J.D.Salinger, Nietzche, George Orwell, Rhiannon (my mastiff--passed away...), Julius and Augustus Ceasar, His Holiness The 14th Dalai Llama, James Dean, Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, Ken Kesey, madmen, Sonny Barger, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, the dreamers, Cary Grant, Jim Morrison, Danny from the Blue, Alex from a Clockwork Orange, Captain America(from Easy Rider),Bond, Paul Newman, Richard Burton, DeNiro, Dr. Timothy Leary, Dr. Gonzo, Rowena (my 'rent's new american bulldog puppy), B.S.F.,Druid (my 'rent's cat(recently deceased 03/08)20 yrs. old), Neal (my deceased kitten), Cosmic Charlie (my kitten),St. Francis, St. Michael, St. Gabriel, the Spirit, The Buddha, my late aunt Madeline, my Parents, David O'Donnell, the Bodhisattvas, Jesus Christ, God, and me