drumming, Reading, Listening to music(s), cooking, Fly-Fishing, abusing Vic Firth 5BX drumsticks and Remo Coated Emperor Heads, wearing black and white Converse All-Stars, wearing Black and White Adidas Campus, wearing black and white Old-School Vans or Black and White Pumas....see a pattern developing??
John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, John Bonham, Tony Thompson, John Paul Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Ry Cooder, David K. Hidalgo, Jeff Tweedy, Los Lobos, Flannery O'Connor, P.J. Harvey, Joey Baron, Glenn Kotche, Atom Willard, Dave Grohl, Dave Lombardo, Brian Blade, Stanton Moore, Juliana Hatfield, C.S. Lewis, Miles Davis, Anthony Williams, George Lucas, Ray Bradbury, John Negroponte, Pete, Pete, Petunia, Artie (the strongest man in the world) Art Blakey, Chaka Khan, The man who invented the internet, The man who takes care of the internet, The man who made the tubes that the internet flows through and Albert Einstein
Led Zeppelin, The Band, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Sinead O' Connor, Antonin Dvorak, Gang Of Four, Kraftwerk, DEVO, NEU!, CAN, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Daniel Lanois, Neko Case, WILCO, YES, King Crimson, ALOHA, MEW, Bill Frisell, Jawbox, Burning Airlines, Fugazi, Mr. Bungle, U2, Brian Eno, B-52's, RUN-D.M.C., Eric B. & Rakim, The Chemical Brothers, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Miles Davis, Viktor Krauss, Talking Heads, Nels Cline, Garage a Trois, Dave Holland Quintet, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Mars Volta, John Zorn, Santana, RFTC, Drive Like Jehu, Slayer, MewithoutYou, Foo Fighters, Rodan, June of 44, The Jesus Lizard, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Elvis Costello, Polvo, Shellac, Captain Beefheart, George Strait, Tori Amos, Cyndi Lauper, Laura Veirs, Madonna, Mike Watt, My Morning Jacket, Sugar, Trail of dead, Sixteen Horsepower, Faraquet, Slick Rick, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, The DOC, AC/DC, Skid Row, Def Leppard, WHAM!, Eurythmics, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Cream, Bob Dylan, Sebadoh, Living Colour, R.E.M., Nirvana, The Spice Girls, DJ Shadow, Bruce Cockburn, The Futureheads, A Tribe Called Quest, Black Star, Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, DE LA SOUL, Big Daddy Kane, Ry Cooder, Booker T. & The MG's, FUNKADELIC, WIRE, The Clash, Bobby Bare Jr., The Carter Administration, Apollo Up!, Buena Vista Social Club, Ruben Gonzalez, Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, Los Lobos, Latin music in general and any hot 90's dance jamz!!!!
Seven Samurai, Do The Right Thing, It's A Wonderful Life, Rambo III....others
Band of Brothers, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The X-Files, Dirty Jobs w/Mike Rowe, PBS, Discovery and/or TLC
Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, Crime and Punishment, Moby Dick, White Noise, Underworld, LIBRA, Mao II, My Life In The Bush of Ghosts, No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian, All The Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities Of The Plain, The Road, Outer Dark, Invisible Man, Blindness, Seeing, Amusing Ourselves To Death, Technopoly, Beloved, The Bible, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man and any other Ray Bradbury, War Against the Weak, White Boy Shuffle, Blue Like Jazz, The World to Come, Starship Troopers (the book, mind you, not the movie!!!!) etc.
Meatstrap Finkleton, Vic Firth, Chuck Taylor, Jack Purcell