Writing, reading, dreaming, heavy metal, doubt, friends and family, acknowledging the ultimate pointlessness of existence, fucking off incessantly, literature, idleness, walking, skateboarding, riding bikes, drinking, conversation, theology, dread, language(s), history, misanthropy, psychogeography, war, cooking, colossi, nerd culture, solitude, conspiracy theory, betel nut, pontificating, wu wei, failing myself and others, long sentences, headbanging, firearms, Montrose, entropy, Texas, legitimate human relationships, revolution, sleep, existentialism, tobacco, so-called "barbarians," role-playing games, vegetarianism, Antarctica, the King in Yellow and Carcosa, philosophy, nostalgia, ferrets, locked grooves, GTOs/any kind of old Chevy SS models, hating cars, porches, accepting my fate, the West, China, Grim Fandango, Quest For Glory, Ultima VII, old PC adventure/role-playing games in general, mythology, half-assing things, poetry, unreqited love, cruisin', autodidacticism, heavy metal culture, reason, pie, coffee, tea, traveling, vinyl, zombie contingency plans, being outside, elementals, burl sense, takin' it easy, and this fucked-up yet beloved world I inhabit.
Casual dudes and dames. Fans of porches, books, metal, and doubt. People who want to skate. The Doom Patrol.
Brant Bjork, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, X, Blue Oyster Cult, High On Fire, Amon Amarth, Entombed, Sunn O))), Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Cathedral, Voivod, Sleep, Slayer, The Misfits, Agalloch, Bal-Sagoth, Dio, Bolt Thrower, Johnny Cash, Electric Wizard, Metallica, Hawkwind, Iron Maiden, Catatonia, Katatonia, Stormcrow, Hank Williams, Deep Purple, Craft, Shane MacGowan, Grand Magus, Sentenced, Bowel, Dark Tranquillity, Fu Manchu, Megadeth, Destroyer 666, Garbage, Nazareth, The Murder City Devils, Thin Lizzy, Rush, Tom Waits, Emperor, Hawkwind, Amebix, Darkthrone, Insect Warfare, Orange fuckin' Goblin, Black Label Society, King Diamond, Jane Birkin, Sculptured, Mercyful Fate, Eric Dolphy, The Pogues, Sigh, Gospel of the Horns, Current 93, Acid King, Black Flag, Danzig, Clutch, Dokken, Skepticism, Morgion, Tree Wave, MC Frontalot, Motorhead, Opeth, Sun Ra, Burzum, Mayhem, The Gathering, @patia No!, Goatwhore, Hobbs Angels of Death, Ghost, Severed Head of State, Calexico, Earthride, Especially Likely Sloth, In The Woods..., Drudkh, Iced Earth, The Exploited, Nirvana, Unearthly Trance, Elastica, Negura Bunget, Beherit, Devin Townsend, Pig Destroyer, Made Out of Babies, Nile, Graveland, the GZA, Dissection, Unleashed, Ludicra, Agony Column, Descendents, Samhain, Celtic Frost, Nick Cave, Municipal Waste, Eagles of Death Metal, God's Temple of Family Deliverance, Spirit Caravan, Nausea, Moonspell, Eyehategod, Rudimentary Peni, Cryptic Slaughter, Spiritual Beggars, dredg, Hellhammer, Angel Witch, The Hidden Hand, Miles Davis, Demented Are Go, White Magic, Ken Nordine, The Meteors, Toxic Holocaust, Drogheda, 3rd Bass, sHeavy, Conifer, Arsis, Goatwhore, Hirax, Axegrinder, Cerys Matthews, Cruachan, Fates Warning, V-E-N-O-fucking-M, Desmond Dekker, Deathspell Omega, The Haunted, Sepultura, Usurper, Prince Buster, Xasthur, Dream Theater, Operation Winter Mist, Trouble, The Real McKenzies, Death In June, Early Man, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Dismember, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, Impaled Nazarene, Velvet Cacoon, Witchcraft, Masaki Batoh, Early Man, Geto Boys, Hammers of Misfortune, Edge of Sanity, Goatsnake, Kyuss, Paige, Om, Cirith Ungol, Dead Can Dance, The Obsessed, Shining, Witch Hunt, Lucifugum, Raging Speedhorn, Destruction, Esoteric, Horna, Hermano, Vlad Tepes, Avril Lavigne, Demilich, Borknagar, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Zyklon, Nattefrost, Ulver, Blut Aus Nord, Boris, screw tapes, Lair of the Minotaur, Tweedenstein, Devin the Dude, Abazagorath, Witchfinder General, Nest, Kreator, Sol Invictus, Skitsystem, A Silver Mount Zion, Martyrdod, Jesu, Ice Cube, Bad Brains, I, Thrones, (The Lord Weird) Slough Feg, Twilight, The Sword, Yellow 6, Sanctum, diSEMBOWELMENT, und so weiter.
The usual: The Stoned Age, Sabbia, Waking Life, Down By Law, Mystery Train, Slacker, Lost in Translation, A Nightmare on Elm Street (the first and third ones), Mulholland Drive, Five Deadly Venoms, Naked Lunch, The Lazy Ones, Dazed and Confused, JFK, Buddhist Fist, Ghost World, Chungking Express, Attack of the Flesh-Devouring Space Worms from Space, Office Space, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Big Bad Love, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Conqueror Worm, Network, Bloodsport, Lyckantropen, Coffee and Cigarettes, City of God, Glam, Brick, Tweedenstein: Ein History of Rock und Textile, et cetera.
Twin Peaks, The Simpsons, The X-Files, Daria, Battlestar Galactica (the new one), Firefly, Iron Chef, A Cook's Tour, Weeds, Bullshit!, Arrested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Lost, Mission Hill, Monk, The Wire, The Office (both iterations), Six Feet Under, and Fishing With John.
Books are life. Axis Mundi Sum (I wrote it, after all), Herman Melville, Thomas Pynchon, Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Len Bracken, H.P. Lovecraft, David Foster Wallace, Ezra Pound, Jorge Luis Borges, Haruki Murakami, Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs, Alan Moore, Robert E. Howard, Iain Sinclair, Roberto Bolaño, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Anton Wilson, William Blake, Charles Bukowski, Ambrose Bierce, William Faulkner, Rudy Rucker, Eric Hoffer, William Gibson, Paul Auster, Charles Baudelaire, Neal Stephenson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Tao Te Ching, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernst Junger, Warren Ellis, Soren Kierkegaard, Li Bai, Charles Bukowski, Barbara Tuchman, Wang Wei, Betrand Russell, Peter Ackroyd, Kelly Link, Jack London, the dedrabbit collective, Karen Olsson, Stephen Fry, Graham Greene, Lu Xun, Philip Pullman, Samuel Delany, Thomas Ligotti, Mark Danielewski, James Ellroy, Mervyn Peake, John Thomason, Knut Hamsun, Neil Gaiman, Kobo Abe, Mary Roach, Curtis White, Tacitus, Jonathan Lethem, Lin Yutang, James Morrow, Peter Lamborn Wilson/Hakim Bey, Jane McCafferty, Joseph Conrad, Umberto Eco, China Mieville, Peter Singer, books on history/philosophy/literary criticism/journalism/mythology/theology, comics galore, and many, many more.
Mostly fictional, but that doesn't detract from their value.