Playing instruments, playing live shows, recording, mastering/editing recordings, writing new songs, attempting to sing while driving in my car with the music really loud, skateboarding, photography, writing, observing the world around me, THINKING.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Kurt Vonnegut
"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you know, everyone you love, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines. Every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish this pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
-Carl Sagan
Close to everything, literally, everything. The Microphones...
All you need to know is The Warriors , Night of the Living Dead(original) and Halloween(original)
Seinfeld, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Soup, South Park, Futurama, Fairly Oddparents, Spongebob Squarepants, Scooby Doo(1960s), Planet Earth...pretty much ridiculous cartoons and the occasional educational show.
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Candide by Voltaire
ANY Kurt Vonnegut...ANY