Music: writing it, performing it, listening to it, talking about it, and finding more of it. Coming in a good distance behind, there's: beer. books. movies. getting robbed. driving. riding bike. Christianity. swimming. rum. skiing. turntableism. buddhist mythology. egyptology. my guitars. mixtapes. my sexy + intelligent friends. and my dumb + ugly friends.
Someone who will teach me parkour:...and an Aaron Sorkin show that stays on the air.
Tom Waits, REM, Aesop Rock, Songs: Ohia, The Roots, At The Drive In, Belle & Sebastian, Engine Down, Light The Fuse & Run, DJ Shadow, Escapists, Howard & Howard, Radiohead, Falls Under April, The Human Timebomb, Grandaddy, Frank Sinatra, Lavender Diamond, Majority Rule, Erykah Badu, Dan The Automator, Lyrics Born, Isis, Sleep, Every Time I Die, His Hero Is Gone, Deftones, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, The Trans Meggetti, Sunny Day Real Estate, Soundgarden, Outkast, Blackalicious, Mos Def, Super Furry Animals, Iron Maiden, City Of Caterpillar, The Breeders, Ozomatli, Modest Mouse, Neurosis, Dillinger Escape Plan, Portishead, Old 97s, Art Of Noise, Led Zep, Converge, The Blacktop Cadence, Cave In, Mike Watt, Bjork, The Reindeer Section, Praxis, Buckethead, Fu Manchu, The Pixies, Big Country, Olivia Tremor Control, Halfacre Gunroon, AC/DC, Traffic, ZZ Top, Billy Bragg, The Mars Volta, Ani Difranco, The Ramones, Van Halen, The B-52s, Placebo, Man...Or Astroman?, Aphex Twin, Muddy Waters, Air, Son House, The Allman Brothers, Robert Johnson, Styles Of Beyond, Dead Kennedys, Sleater Kinney, BB King, Buddy Guy, The Cure, The Smiths, The Who, Prince, Ryan Adams, Snow Patrol, Til Tuesday, The 5 6 7 8's, Aimee Man, Nirvana, Romeo Void, Mudhoney, Tad, Alice In Chains, Mogwai, Death Cab For Cutie, Thursday, Professor Longhair, Jimi Hendrix, The Postal Service, Cream, John Mayalls Blues Breakers, The Yardbirds, Latyrx, The Byrds, The Mommas And The Poppas, Sola, The Seatbelts, The Jefferson Airplane, Bald Rapunzel, Apocalypse Pow!, Funkdoobiest, Beauty Pill, Basement Jaxx, old De La Soul, old Beastie Boys, Urge Overkill, Zetamale, World Inferno Friendship Society, Between The Buried And Me, Milemarker, UNKLE, Daughters, Scarlet, old Rolling Stones, old Santana, U2, Ex-Holiday, Refused, The Streets, The Setup, Smashing Pumpkins, Quannum Projects, Jurassic 5, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Skyrider, Pete Yorn, Q and not U, Al Green, Otis Redding, Pearl Jam, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Morrissey, Penfold, Three Dog Night, Louis Jordan, Minus The Bear, Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu, Breach, Captured! By Robots, Ugly Duckling, Leonard Cohen, Denali, Bats & Mice, Wilco, The Avalanches, Marvin Gaye, Des Ark, Cat Power, Xiu Xiu, Chick Corea, Smog, Mike Stern, Homemade Knives, Sun Kil Moon, Explosions In The Sky, Deltron 3030, Swordplay, Afghan Whigs, Low, Brown Bird, Nola, Catfish Haven, Patsy Cline, Dinosaur Jr., The Twilight Sad, and a whole lot more
The Passion Of The Christ, Magnolia, Down By Law, Punch Drunk Love, Fight Club, An American In Paris, American Beauty, Fear And Loathing..., Bringing Out The Dead, Adaptation, Amelie, Le Petit Soldat, Battle Royale, Vanilla Sky, Citizen Kane, True Romance, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Waynes World, Interview With the Vampire, Dune, Dancer In The Dark, High Fidelity, Memento, Sweet And Lowdown, The Secret of Nimh, Pistol Opera, Monty Python & Holy Grail, Curse Of The Jade Scorpion, City Of Lost Children, 24 Hour Party People, Scratch, Hype!, Singin In The Rain, Zoolander, The Way Of The Gun, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Donnie Darko, Death To Smoochy, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, The Pianist, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Sin City, Oldboy, Symathy For Lady Vengance, Summer Stock, The Fountain, Grindhouse, 300, and lots lots more
MST3K, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Sports Night, Simpsons, Family Guy, Seinfeld, Blind Date, Get Smart, How It's Made, Man Vs. Wild, Conan Obrien, Space Ghost C2C, Cowboy Bebop, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Mr Bean, Blackadder, Freaks & Geeks, and some other shows that aren't on any more.
Don Delillo, Kerouac, Vonnegut, Camus, Voltaire, Anne Rice, Ayn Rand, Sun Tszu, George Orwell, Thomas Harris, Lewis Carroll, William Carlos Williams, Dr. Seuss, Shakespeare, God, Poe, Hunter S. Thompson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, A.A. Milne, Robert M. Pirsig, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and more... currently: lots of history books for school, and the Neil Young biography "Shakey"
Yamantaka, Gene Kelly, and Martha Graham