music, film, reading, hiking, Russian martial arts, history, restaurants, good beer, road trips, migraines, the Sierras, having time to myself, doomsday cults, avoiding work, spending quality time at the DMV, Sharks hockey, having standoffs with raccoons outside my front door, reciting lines from B-movies, going to shows, going home when shows get boring, 7-11, rainy weather, watching tugboats push container ships in the Bay, trying to figure it all out....
Not the Utsuro-Bune.
yeah, some of it
Apocalypse Now, Buffalo 66, Repo Man, Big Lebowski, Trinity and Beyond, Frailty, Ravenous, Stalker, No Man's Land, Taxi Driver, Hunt for Red October, Ashes and Diamonds, Exorcist, Stripes, Slapshot, Vacation, Office Space, Kevin Smith flicks, any and all Christopher Guest comedies (Spinal Tap, Best in Show, etc.), River's Edge, Session 9, the Thing, Aliens, Red Dawn (a gem from my childhood), Goodfellas, the Beast, Godfathers I & II, Fight Club, Lord of War, Big Trouble in Little China, Gung Ho, Mad Max trilogy, Seven Samurai and other Kurosawa films, Miller's Crossing, Road to Perdition, the Shining, the Evil Dead series, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Japanese horror such as Ringu and Pulse, pretty much every godawful Troma horror feature ever made like Toxic Avenger and Buttcrack, goofball 80's comedies like Just One of the Guys, Armed and Dangerous, Real Genius, etc., Sleepy Hollow, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the ORIGINAL), Braveheart, the Right Stuff, Boondock Saints, Green Street Hooligans, Gangs of New York, State of Grace
Simpsons, the Young Ones, yelling at the so-called History channel when they get everything wrong, Military Channel, Deadliest Catch, Mythbusters, any wildlife show about lions, cheetahs, crocodiles, birds of prey or other predatory animals, any wildlife show where the above mentioned animals attack people, the GEICO cavemen commercials, Mexican wrestling, Croatian music videos (that shit's priceless)
history books of all sorts, European and Mesopotamian mythology, philosophy, political science. The non-fiction writings of CS Lewis and Chesterton. My two favorite novels of all time are Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and Toole's "Confederacy of Dunces" Some other favorite novelists are Jack London, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Zola.
Snuh.