Making music (play a few instruments and I'm into live-looping), technology that makes our lives "simpler", grilling kick ass concoctions, skateboarding (when I'm not injured), jujitsu, watching movies and then complaining about how much better I could've done, swimming in large bodies of water, sailing/fishing on larger bodies of water, drinking well made libations, making great drinks to go with good food that I've made, great wines, stand up comics.
I am a saint in the age of romance, perfect in every way. But you'll never know 'cause I can't get a chance for the me that's not far away. If you look past the shell of the man that you see, there's people inside you should know. But shallow unsighted grifters decide who I am and where I should go.
Elvis Costello, Tenacious D, Widespread Panic, Tom Waits, Medeski Martin and Wood, The Flaming Lips, G Love and Special Sauce, Midlake, The Beatles, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Police, Otis Redding, The Beastie Boys, Digable Planets, Foo Fighters, Jurassic 5, The Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones, Radiohead, Pensativa, Greyboy All Stars, Calexico, Beck, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Ben Folds Five, Spinal Tap, The Pixies, Trey Anastasio, Phish, Keller Williams, Grateful Dead.I love blues and jazz, trying to combine blues and jazz with a hip hop beat like everybody else...but mine's better and I will someday rule the world!!!
Top 3 - The Shawshank Redemption, The Big Lebowski, Stranger Than Fiction. Other than that, there's just too many movies to list, so I'll list people I like. Will Farrel & Christopher Walken...that's about it. Everyone else can go suck a lemon. Except Bill Murray, he's cool too. Oh, and Christopher Guest. My favorite directors are the Coen Brothers, P.T. Anderson, Martin Scorcese and Ron Howard.
Rescue Me is the best show on TV. Also like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Austin City Limits, Mythbusters, Survivorman and really anything on Discsovery Channel(s), FOOTBALL
Searching for the Sound [Phil Lesh], Jitterbug Perfume [Tom Robbins}, Iowa Baseball Confederacy [Kinsella], Catcher in the Rye [Salinger], Foucault's Pendulum [Umberto Eco], The Celestine Prophecy [James Redfield], Awaken the Giant Within [Robbins], How to Win Friends and Influence People [Carnegie], The Warren Buffett Way [Hagstrom], The Gift of Fear [de Becker]
My mom (for getting a degree with a 4.0GPA at the age of 55) and dad (for taking care of everyone & everything), my sister and her husband (for taking care of their family the way they do), Bill Hicks (for pissing people off and making them laugh at once), Richard Clarke (for telling Bush to eat it), Wayne Coyne (for always being creative), G Love (for being smooth), and my cousin Evan who is getting ready to deploy to Afghanistan where he will show them an example of a truly great and noble American soldier.