writing,painting, music, playing the guitar,wine,reading expanding my ever growing base of knowledge in the lifelong quest for truth and the question, entheogenic shamanism, my quest for my personal "Kurtz" (Daniel Pinchbeck), art and museums, aged single barrel bourbon, cigars, naked and near naked ladies, giving wedding toasts, "shortcut to mushrooms" -Tolkien ... power lies more in the question than in the hot lead raingin down upon the inoccent in torrents and swells of death showers.
People without fear... people that don't buy into normative ways of behavior.. people don't feel the need to play silly games, ... people who realize they are works in progress... people who can say that they are wrong... people who think My Space is a LITTLe bit silly, but use it anyway, cuz hey, old friends and new freinds are ok things... but the strippers need TO STOP ASKING ME TO CHECK OUT THEIR WEB CAM LIVE FEED!!
System of a Down, Alice in Chains,Rage Against the Machine,TOOL, Mad SEASON,Ston Temple Pilots, Layne, BB King, Buddy Guy, Deftones,Bjork,Busta Rhymes, Audio Slave, Weezer, Sly and the Family Stone, Maceo Parker, Radiohead, Portishead, Pantera, A Perfect Circle, MOS DEF, TRIBE CALLED QUEST, Wu Tang Finacial(the RZA THE GZA THE OLE DIRTY BZA AND THE METHOD MZA U-GOD, GHOSTFACE KILLAH INSPECTAH DECK,MASTAH KILLAH, and RAQUAN the CHEF.... PROTECT YO GODDAMN NECK SON) , The Fugees, Wyclef. Lauryn Hill, Bon JOVI,and........ my talented friend Jon Neufeld.
Shawshank Redemption, Kill Bill(s), Crash, Pirates of the Caribean, Matrix Trilogy, Star Wars Sextet, Lord of the Rings Trilogy (thus finishing my super nerd movies) Fear and Loathing in L.V., Garden State, Lost In Translation, DaVinci Code, Swingers, Eddie Murphy Delirious, ANY Eddie Izzard Stand-Up,
House, Law and Order(s),Judgin Amy, Alias, Family Guy, Simpsons, Robot Chicken, Bones, .
Breaking Open the head, 1984, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, "on Literature" -by Umberto Ecco, all poems by T.S.Elliot, Ginsberg, Longfellow, Ezra Pound, WC Williams, Emily Dickinson (the first dark brooding woman of lit. in my life) Edgar Allen Poe, Emerson, -- April Blood (The Medici and the Pazzi conspiracy), The Art of War, The Celestine Prophecy, The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, L.O.T.R., The Holographic Universe, Hamlet, Coriolanus (all Shakespearian works) Noam Chomsky's Understanding Power, Fear and loathing (and all H.S. Thompson treasures) Harry Potter series (yeah I SAID IT BITCHES) The Republic and Phaedo (both Platonian works) Military Methods by Sun Pin (Sun Tzu's descendant) Travels With Charlie, In Our Time, The Heart of Darkness
My Life hero is my friend Jon for his firendship and total lack of fear facing the world, and Justin for his devotion and self-determined commitment to making his OWN way, my guitar hero is my friend Al (who also wins the prize for funniest muth fuckah ever), My hero for changing himself for the better and the ability to fearlessly tell others the good things they need to hear about themselves is Matt, my heroes for being loyal beyond earthly confines are my brothers, my hero for teaching others and mentoring endless young adults is Hill, and my SEX GODDESS hero is Angelina