Bass guitars, music, teaching, pro football, MMA, reading, writing, anime, cookies, politics and history
Victor Wooten, Flea, Charles Mingus, Jaco, Rocco Prestia, Les Claypool, and all of the other bass gods. Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Bill Hicks. Yoshiyaki Kawajiri. William Stafford. Zakir Hussain. Sacha Baron Cohen. Bob Marley. Stephen Ambrose. Hunter S. Thompson. Jack Black. Barack Obama. Stanley Kubrick. Miles Davis.
Most Influential Albums:
"Blood Sugar Sex Magik" Red Hot Chili Peppers
"A Show of Hands" Victor Wooten
"Kid A" Radiohead
"Metallica" Metallica
"Dark Side of the Moon" Pink Floyd
"Awake" Dream Theater
"Sublime" Sublime
"Around the Fur" Deftones
"Transistor" 311
"Far Beyond Driven" Pantera
"Houses of the Holy" Led Zeppelin
"Worship and Tribute" Glassjaw
"Aquemini" OutKast
"Vegas" The Crystal Method
"Aenima" Tool
Top Ten:
Unbreakable
A Clockwork Orange
Saving Private Ryan
The Big Lebowski
Ninja Scroll
Gangs of New York
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Dark Knight
The Matrix
Children of Men
South Park, Battlestar Galactica, SportsCenter, The Daily Show, Metalocalypse, Sesame Street
Ray Bradbury - "The Martian Chronicles", "Fahrenheit 451"
Anthony Burgess - "A Clockwork Orange"
The poetry of William Stafford
Aldous Huxley - "Brave New World"
Lawrence Wright - "The Looming Tower"
Kurt Vonnegut - "Galapagos"
Hubert Selby, Jr. - "Last Exit to Brooklyn"
"Berserk" manga series
Ken Kesey - "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
Tom Wolfe - "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
Hunter S. Thompson - "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
The works of Flannery O'Connor
J.R.R. Tolkien - "The Lord of the Rings", "The Silmarillion"
David Brin - "The Postman"
Richard Dawkins - "The God Delusion"
Neil Gaiman - "American Gods"
Historic non-fiction, especially dealing with Classical Greece, the Enlightenment, or World War I
My father, Grant Lange, who taught me how to laugh. My step-father, John Stafford, who taught me how to play music. My grandfather, Bob Schultz, who taught me how to be a man.
My mother, Kathi Stafford, who gave me her heart and determination. My grandmother, Patricia Schultz, who gave me her love and wisdom. My wife, Cathryn Lange, who gave me her way of looking at the world.