I play the Thunderbroom. I build things. I ride bikes.
Mostly dead people.
Ozomatli, John Butler Trio, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sunny Day Real Estate/The Fire Theft/Jeremy Enigk, Herbie Hancock, James Brown, The Motet, Bad Religion, Jethro Tull, the Dave Holland Quintet/Quartet, The Dead Kennedys, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Ernest Ranglin, Bitter:Sweet, anything from Motown or Stax, KMFDM, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Louis Prima, The Cure, Aretha Franklin, Tower of Power, Refused, Mastodon, the Dave Matthews Band, The Shins, Suzanne Vega, Morphine, Tool, Hank Williams (all three generations), Peter Gabriel, the Descendents/All, the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Propagandhi, Govt. Mule, Bela Fleck, Fiona Apple, Sufjan Stevens, Portishead, Stone Temple Pilots, The Mars Volta, The Slackers, Tito Puente, The Decemberists, Ella Fitzgerald, The Benevento Russo Duo, Medeski Martin and Wood, Queen, P-Funk, John Scofield, Matisyahu, Ben Harper, the Wood Brothers, The Beatles, Soulive, Beck, Al Green, Boards of Canada, MoFro, the Scissor Sisters, Norah Jones, the Asylum Street Spankers, David Bowie, Galactic, etc., etc. Too many other bands to list.
Books are just about the coolest things ever invented. Some of the authors that get me off consistently are Milan Kundera, Henry Miller, Bram Stoker, Jack Kerouac, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Emily/Charlotte Bronte, C.S. Lewis, Anais Nin, Dante, William Gibson, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce!, Stanislaw Lem, Albert Camus, Neil Gaiman, Shakespeare, Marcel Proust, and T.H. White.
Each and every last one of you.