Weights, raising sons, running, basketball, n baseball n football, especially Celtics, Sox n Pats (born/raised Boston), muscle cars, politics, history, playing rock n roll as hobby instead of lethal lifestyle.
John C. Fremont.And ask him how he feels about his creation now.
Rock and roll, mostly derived from the energy and spirit of Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, the imagination and reach and attitude of the Beatles, Stones, Animals, James Brown and every and any great 60's band, peaking with the proto-punk Velvets/Dolls/MC5/Slade thing into the music I have been playing since '77, Ramones/Heartbreakers/Phil Spector influenced hard rock.Plus the indie gear of the 80's, Gun Club plus Replacements, Scorchers, Lime Spiders, X, Pixies, Briefs, Dents, old school rap, especially Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash,PE, Rob Base, Tupac and lots of the ancient blues, reggae, Afro-Cuban n' country, like so many of my equally jaded and crapulous peers.
The Producers, GF1, GF2, Diner,Scarface, Boyz in DaHood, Do the Right Thing, Clockers, He Got Game, Goodfellas, Casino, Blow.And all the little films I've been in......
Sporting events, BBC, Three Stooges/F Troop and whatever TVLand brilliance of the past rears its head.
Mario Puzo, Jerry Stahl, Eddie Little (RIP, my brother), much by way of crime,lurid and vice riddled nonsense, as well as M Parenti and other lefty polemics.....
My grandfathers, who came to America with nothing and did OK--I named my 1st son after them.