Music, Soto Zen Buddhism, martial arts (Hapkido, Judo, Ju Jitsu, Aikido), fossils, books/literature, science, leftist politics, history, insects, birds, herps, fish, diving (tricky with Meniere's), travel, theology, cryptozoology, the Enneagram, Fourth Way, food (especially things I've never tried before), Public Health/Industrial Hygiene/Environmental Science
Che Guevara but he's dead. Actually I'd like to give the world a coke. I'd also love to see footage of Blake Rainey and Kenny Howes chasing Paris Hilton through an abandonned amusement park with pool cues (that's instead of meeting her). People that want to meet me kinda frighten me a little. Unless, you also have Meniere's disease. Then by all means get in touch. Everybody else - I promise, I'd love to come see your band at some point but theres only so many nights in a week.
Steve Earle, Jandek, Rolling Stones, Richard Thompson, The Stranglers, Tom Verlaine/Television/Richard Lloyd, Wire, Peter Case, The Bevis Frond, The Buzzcocks, Husker Du, Ry Cooder, Tom Waits, John Cale, Mingus, Coltrane, Miles, Ornette, Zorn, King Crimson, Fripp, Eno, T Rex, David Bowie, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Robert Johnson, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Woodie Guthrie, Marvin Gaye, Stravinsky, John Cage, Steve Reich, Fred Frith, Lou Reed, Robyn Hitchcock, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Love, Nick Cave, Led Zeppelin, Roxy Music, Bill Nelson, David Gilmour, Rhys Chatham, Loren Connors, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Mission of Burma, Thin White Rope, Be Bop Deluxe, The Beethoven String Quartets and Bach Cello suites, John Fahey, The Hold Steady, The Pernice Brothers, REM, Califone, Velvet Underground, Can, Will Oldham, Scrapper Blackwell, Bill Laswell/Material/Massacre, Guided By Voices, The Zombies, Jimi Hendrix, The Shins, Hammell On Trial, Sparklehorse, Varnaline, Kings of Leon, The dBs, Richard X Heyman, Centro-Matic, Six Organs of Admittance, Big Star
Henry Fool, V for Vendetta, Pi, Red Sorghum, The Big Lebowsky, The Third Man, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Five Easy Pieces, Simple Men, Bottlerocket, Rushmore, Jandek on Corwood, The Proposition, The Last Temptation of Christ, Matewan, Lonestar, Old Joy
Marquee Moon, Adventure, The Blow-up, the 1992 record on Capital all rock. Live Adventures is my favorite bootleg.Oh.....you mean watching TV. No, thanks. That's strictly for hotel roomsActually "The Prisoner" was genius. So was "UFO" - Straker rocked ass. That "No Reservations" on the travel channel is way cool. "Blue Planet" was amazing.
Fiction - The Moviegoer by Walker Percy is like the bible to me, Kerouac's "On the Road" radically altered my life at 15, most Faulkner, all Joyce, Mishima, Kawabata, David Foster Wallace, William Vollman, Cormac McCarthy, Jim Harrison, Russell Banks, Jonathan Lethem, Madison Smartt Bell, Iain Banks, Harry Crews, Barry Hannah,"Moby Dick" is also a big favorite. Non-fiction - Stephen J Gould, EO Wilson, Jared Diamond, Noam Chomsky, John Dominic Crossan, The National Geographic "Complete Birds of North America", Tom Wheeler "American Guitars". Poetry - Lorca, Vallejo, Rimbaud, Dylan Thomas, Ginsberg. Autobiography - "Raw and Cooked" by Jim Harrison, "Guerilla Warfare" by Che. Drama - Re-reading "Macbeth" at 44 kicked my ass, "Baal" by Bretch. Comics - 8 Ball, Love and Rockets, Turok - Son of Stone (Gold Key/Dell years). Theology/Philosophy - Gurdjieff, DT Suzuki, Idries Shah, Dogen. Biography - "Jackson Pollack - An American Saga""Gurdjieff" - Frank Moore
Che Guevara, Tankman from Tianamin Square, Paul Gauguin, St Francis of Assissi, Genghis Khan, Joe Hill, Cesar Chavez, Ivan Illych, Jandek, Mahatma Gandhi, Eugene Debs, Dogen, Bodhidharma, Edvard Vlanders, my buddy Jenn for battling cancer like a motherfucker (whatever deity is in charge of this dept, let her up she's had enough).