Top priorities in my life right now are: Family. Continuing my higher Education/Learning. Doing music with my band (finishing our fucking record). Also Exercise/Martial Arts. Fishing. Nature. Old punk records. Skateboarding.
God.
POISON IDEA, Inepsy, Career Suicide, Dictators, The Kids, The Rolling Stones, Totalitar, Our Turn, Gang Star, Edan, Tribe Called Quest, The Clarendonians, Descendants, Biz Markie, Skatalites, CRUCIFX, Discharge, Terrorizor, Minor Threat, Zero Boys, Direct Control, Entombed, At the Gates, Fucked Up, Ultra Magnetic M.C.'s, K.M.D., Disfear, Carry On, Pete Rock N' C.L., Negative Approach, Hep Cat, New Bomb Turks, Scared Of Chaka, The Beatles, Fifteen, Lonnie Liston Smith, Crimpshrine, K.M.D., Grimple, Jawbreaker, Black Flag, Dictators, The Boys, Skit System, Victims (Sweden), The Jam, Tragedy, B.D.P., Exploding Hearts, Asta Kask, 50's and 60's oldies, D Nice, Heiroglyphics (Souls, Del, Shaman), John Klemmer, Show Biz and AG, Skit Kids, Grant Green, Bolt Thrower, Thelonis Monk, Agent Orange (Both), Harpoon Guns, John Coltrane, Rabies, Avengers, The Weirdos, Slick Rick, Koro, Lonnie Liston Smith, LL Cool J , My Band At Practice (over, and over, and over again) The Meters, THE DESCENDANTS, Common, THE DESCENDANTS, E.P.M.D., THE FUCKING DESCENDANTS, Bastard, The Bastards, Circle Jerks, WIRE, Victims, Citizen's Arrest, Nightmare, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Limp Wrist, Gordon Solie Motherfuckers, Big L., Doobie Brothers, Newtown Nuerotics, Misfits, Ramones, Riistetyt, Black Moon, Old Ass Hardcore bands from Japan, South America and Europe most people have never heard of.
Resevoir Dogs, The Warriors, The Outsiders, The Taxi Driver, Braveheart, Apocolypse Now, Harold and Maude, Pulp Fiction, Ichi the Swordsman (marial arts movies in general), Francis Ford Copola movies in general, Silence of the Lambs, Horror in general, japanese giant monster flicks, Donnie Darko. Movies that tug you around emotionally (that is what they are supposed to do).
Another thing I have no time for. Whatever I can borrow from a friend on D.V.D. Anything on National Geographic, Science/Nature shows. Samuri Jack. Family Guy is funny.
I've read thousands of books but lately don't have that much time. I read a lot of history (true life accounts of war), fantasy/adventure type stuff, as well as the "great classics". Fiction that has a philosophical/spiritual twist is always good. Narcisus and Goldmand for example. Or Siddartha. Of Mice and Men is great. Tom Sawyer/Huckelberry Finn. Some of the best reads ever were "The Dragon Bone Chair" by Tad Williams, the Tolkien Trilogy (I read it the first time when I was in the 6th grade).My current reads are "Conversations with Don Juan/A Separate Reality" by Carlos Castenadas. "Stupid White Men". And "The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Mushashi. When things are going bad I fall back on reading sections of The Hagakure. Try it.
Be your own.