Generally I enjoy motion pictures (this includes TV), music, nature, guitar, comedy, photography, videography, composition of all sorts, visual art, film-making (or at least thinking about it), the written word, concerts, classic and modern video gaming, stories, sleeping (AKA time travel), kind folks, kind chuds, open minds, good times, good buzzes, cusses, and great beauty. Can ya dig? If so the tree nursery's looking for workers.
I'd like to meet:
For real though, as long as you aren't rediculously close-minded, hateful, pessimistic, and judgemental I'm you're man. I dig loving, caring, humble, open-minded, positive, chill folks who don't bring drama, but do bring the funk (and the fun).As far as famous people go I'd like to meet or wish I could've met Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Bill Murray, Stanley Kubrick, Will Ferrill, Kevin Smith, Johnny Depp, any member of the Beatles, Mick Jager, Keith Richards, Sid Haig, Buddah, any member o' Phish, Jimi Hendrix, William Wordsworth, Les Claypool, Bill Nershi, Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir, Thomas Jefferson, and Jack Black. I'd like to meet a lot of others, but these folks are golden gods in my book. I also wish that I could've seen numerous bands in concert that I'll never get a chance to see thanks to bad blood, and everyone's favorite natural occurance good ol' death. Some of them being: Sublime, the Beatles (Why would anyone shoot John Lennon?), Blind Melon, AIC, Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Band, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash and Company, Pink Floyd, The Blues Brothers, and the Grateful Dead. There's others as well.Also, how fucking sweet would it be if Bill and Ted popped out of nowhere w/ kick ass Rufus in a Telephone booth. That would rock more than pirate ship in a tropical storm.
Music:
I have mad love for Under the Influence of Giants, The Grateful Dead, PHISH, "THE MONSTER MASH," Hendrix, Rat Dog, Phil Lesh and Friends, The Dead/Other Ones, Oysterhead, Trey Anastasio Band, String Cheese Incident, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Mike Gordon and Leo Kottke, Leo Kottke, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Otis Redding, John Fahey, Sublime, Neil Young, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Keller Williams, Vida Blue (Page is the shit, and Oteil Burbridge is one hell of a bass player!), New Monsoon, Mike Gordon (solo), Leftover Salmon, Red Hot Chili Peps, Tenacious D, The Who, The Guess Who, India Arie, Pink Floyd, The Big Wu, The Word, Moe, Poop Hole Brown, Ray Charles, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Slightly Stoopid, Alice in Chains, Guitar Hero covers, The Velvet Underground, 36 Mafia, The Talking Heads, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Les Claypool's many projects, Skip James, Eric Clapton, Cream, CCR, The Allman Brothers, CSNY, Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band ( NO "TURN THE PAGE," OR "OLD TIME ROCK N ROLL"), Oasis, Weezer's first two albums, Umphrey's Mcgee, Steve Miller Band, Fat Maw Rooney, a lil' Steely Dan, The Bee Gees, James Brown, J. Holiday, Chicago before they stopped rockin' and started sucking (for example they started sucking when the performed songs like "You're My Inspiration"), The Samples, DMB, The Band (what band?), Stevie Wonder, Nirvana, Motown, Bob Dylan, Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, Rage Against the Machine, Amfibian, Common Rider, The Dismemberment Plan, The White Stripes, Tom Petty, Santana, The Everyone Orchestra, Radiohead, Coldplay, Cat Stevens, Blackalicious, Atmosphere, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Incubus, The Doors, Kanye West, War, John Brown's Body, Jethro Tull, Jim Croce, John Lennon, Johnny "the Man in Black" Cash, Biggie, 2pac, Snoop, Dr. Dre, The D.O.C., Eminem, Johnny Cage (Mortal Kombat great), Pearl Jam, old Metallica, Blind Melon, David Bowie, "Puttin on the Ritz," "The Safety Dance," "Ice, Ice, Baby," "How Bizarre," "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung, "Love Shack" by the B52's ("Hurry up and bring your juke - box - money." Fred has the best voice ever!). This list goes on much like the music (it never stopped). Some great lyrics relating to music: "Let there be songs, to fill the air," "Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock - my soul," "If you get confused, listen to the music play," "One good thing about music, is that when it hits you feel no pain." Not mentioned here are the many musicians and songs that have fallen out of my favor over my 20 something years.
Movies:
Defending Your Life, After Hours (a Marty Scorsese Film), The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, The Referee, Transformers, Black Snake Moan, Live Free or Die Hard, 300, Wes Andersen flicks (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tennenbaums), those written by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Human Nature!, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), all of K. Smith's comedic gems (Clerks, Clerks II, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl (It's decent)), American Beauty, American History X, Crash, Raging Bull, The Green Mile, some of those by Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Surburbia, Slacker, School of Rock, Before the Sunset, Waking Life), High Fidelity, Fight Club, The Godfather, Tim Burton's work (Nightmare Before X-Mas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, Batman 1 and 2, Sleepy Hollow, and Beetlejuice. Definately not Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!), Citizen Kane, Shaun of the Dead, Chronicles of Narnia, I Heart Huckabees, most of the Halloween Series (minus 3, and 8!), Harry and the Hendersons, Jason and the Argonauts, Do the Right Thing, Basketball Diaries, Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault, Mom and Dad Save the Universe, Adventures in Babysitting, Short Circuit 2 (better than the first!), Stay Tuned, The Cable Guy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Talladega Nights, The Original Friday the 13th, Radio Flyer, Pay it Forward, The Leprechaun movie series (God bless it!), it's cousin Santa's Slay, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, Dragnet, Some Like it Hot, Ray, Free Enterprise, Pauly Shore movies (minus Pauly Shore is Dead), Lucky Number Slevin, Pink Floyd's The Wall, X-Men 1 and 2 (3 sucks), Dogtown and the Z Boys, Lords of Dogtown, Along Came Polly, Animal House, Rounders, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The House of Flying Daggers, The Jacket, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Men at Work, Howard the Duck, A Mighty Wind, Best of Show, This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, The Great Outdoors, Pirates of the Carribean, Empire Records, Can't Hardly Wait, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, The Benchwarmers (eventhough John Heder sucks in it), So I Married an Axe Murderer, Weird Science, Almost Famous, SLC Punk, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Home Movie, American Movie, Better Off Dead, The Original Star Wars Trilogy, Spaceballs, Life Stinks, Robin Hood Men in Tights ("...tight tights"), History of the World Part I ("It's good to be king",) Swingers, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Rocky, Jaws, the Super Mario Bro's Movie, the Indiana Jones series, American Graffiti, Yes Men, Concert DVD's, Cradle Will Rock, Danny Boyle's Movies (Shallow Grave (It's alright), Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Millions), Dawn of the Dead (both versions), Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead (both versions), Goonies, Adventures in Babysitting, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 and 2, Loverboy, Once Bitten, Earth Girls are Easy, anything done by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Orgazmo, Team America World Police, Baseketball), The Big Lebowski, Office Space, Half Baked, all the Broken Lizard films (Puddle Cruiser, Super Troopers, and Club Dread), all the Quentin Tarentino pictures, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, House of 1000 Corpses (Tiny fucked a stump!), Devil's Rejects (Tuti Fuckin' Fruity!), Cabin Fever (I love the Rotten Fruit extras on the DVD), The Motorcycle Diaries, Garbage Pail Kids (there's just something about gross cabbage patch kids that magically appear from an ooze filled garbage can to help a teenage boy design clothes and win over a hussy!), Citizen Kane, Unbreakable, Blow, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Village, What Dreams May Come, Borat, The Departed, Casablanca, Big, Forrest Gump, The Terminal, The Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it's first wacky sequel w/ Dennis Hopper, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Stanley Kubrick pics (Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining...), hilarious Arnold Schwarzenegger films (Especially Total Recall! "Consider this a divorce!" I generally dig most futuristic movies like The Running Man, The Fifth Element, Code 46, The Island, Demolition Man, Minority Report, The 6th Day, Judge Dredd, and 1984 when I make it!)) Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale, The Godfather, Donnie Brasco, A Christmas Story, Ghostbusters, Kingpin, Groundhog Day, Scrooged, Caddyshack 1, The Blues Brothers, Short Circuit 1 and 2, Animal House, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Online, Coming to America, Changing Places, The Hills have Eyes, National Lampoons/Chevy Chase's Vacation series, Nothing But Trouble, Funny Farm, Quick Change, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Singin' in the Mother Fucking Rain (that's right haters!), Max, Little Shop of Horrors, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Little Monsters, Fargo, Big Trouble in Little China, Billy Madison, Poop Hole Brown, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, Airheads, Coneheads, The Wedding Singer, Knocked Up, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Sea Inside, Grandma's Boy, The Harry Potter flicks, and I'll stop there for now cause I can go on and on. This list is dynamic.
Television:
At one time or another I had totally lost faith in television. For some reason, thanks to cable, the greatest invention ever (the DVR!!! (Not really, but for the purpose of these parenthetical comments it is)), and TV on DVD I'm a television junky while I'm not getting funky. Some favorites; Dexter, Flight of the Conchords, Entourage, Live from Abbey Road, Who Want's to be a Superhero?, Chappelle's Show, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, South Park, Reno 911, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, America's Got Talent, Arrested Development, Poop Hole Brown, the Sopranos (each hour long episode is better than most movies!), Stella, Family Guy, Austin City Limits, American Dad, Insomniac, the power hour (The Simpsons and That 70's Show), shitty/hilarious infomercials (especially ones w/ Matthew Lesko!!!), Cheaters, Lost in Space, Robot Chicken, Cops, Heroes, Black.White, Unan1mous, Pirate Master, Survivorman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien (my favorite talk show since the age of like 10(I miss Andy Richter)), new to me Family Feud from the 70's featuring one of the greatest game show hosts ever (Mr. Richard Dawson), The Office (both versions), Blind Date, In Living Color, Saturday Night Live, Mad TV, American Idol, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Last Comic Standing, Weeds, The Legend of Zelda, My Name is Earl, What the Morning?, Howard TV, Lucky Louie, Greg the Bunny, classic funnier than ever Nickelodeon game shows like those on Nick GAS! (Nick Arcade, Get the Picture, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Finder's Keepers, Double Dare(not 2000 which sucks)), Beauty and the Geek, The Pick Up Artist, and Trading Spouses. That's pretty much it. Most of the rest is crap. I can't even believe I enjoy this much TV. It's an f'ing lot. I also wish there was a network that played shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Salute Your Shorts, Hey Dude, and Welcome Freshmen. That'd be one sweet trip down memory lane! Where the hell is this much needed network. I'll start a petition. I'd like to see some old episodes of Get Smart too. That show was awesome. I wish my shoe was a telephone.
Books:
The dictionary, Grapes of Wrath, 1984, Warriors Don't Cry: The Battle for Desegregation, A Wizard of Earthsea, Maus II, Poop Hole Brown, and The Invisible Man (Which surprising isn't about an actual Invisible Man, but rather a black man). As for short stories and poetry I dig anything by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wordsworth, or "Standing Bear." If you want to read a great anti-war short story check out Guy de Maupassant's "Mother Savage." Don't forget, the romantics are the bomb (I'm not talking about books w/ Fabio on the cover!). The same goes for books w/ great pictures, huge print, and no more than 35 words per page! Wouldn't this category be more appropriate if it was called the written word instead of books? There is so many other works of written worth that aren't necessarily books like Thich Nhat Hahn's "Interbeing," or any of a volume of philosophical readings I've done out of text books. Seriously, the Allegory of the Cave is awesome. I suppose some of those did come from books at some point, but still. On top of all this I have read many excellent short stories and poems. Their names slip my mind, though. Cathedral is good.
Heroes:
Pricasso, not Picasso, but Pricasso. Look 'im up on the 'net.
