All the ingredients of "the good life" - music, art, literature, philosophy, architecture, poetry, cuisine, conversation, humor, companionship, serene contemplation, sound economics, the sublime in all its forms, and booze.
Music
U2, King's X, Def Leppard, Deftones, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd, The Police, Yes, The Fixx, Hall n' Oats, Level 42, Joni Mitchell, The Cure, Interpol, Jane's Addiction, Alice In Chains, AC/DC, Van Halen, George Michael, Prince, Becky's Ankles, Talking Heads, Rush, Drift, Kansas, Kenny Rogers, John Denver, Seal, The Beatles, The Eagles, Simple, America, Alan Parson's Project, Coldplay, Steve Miller, Seed, The Mother Truckers, Bundobeats, Common Thread, Sisters of Mercy, Jeff Buckley, The Scorpions, Queensryche, The Lush Life, Billy Idol, The Benchwarmers of the Revolution, Arthur Davenport, Journey, The Roots, Boston, The Bee Gees, Asia, Irie Still, Johnnie, Faith No More, Guns 'n' Roses, Daniel Lanois, The Church, Naomi, January's Little Joke, Sade, The Sugarcubes, David Bowie, Ryan Martino, Ozzy, Jason Daniello, Soundgarden, Orbitmann, The Shins, Daffodil, Seventhsign, Gravity Hill, Black Cowboy, Booger, The Smiths, Aaron Hamre Band, Lizard House, Orbit The Vine, Govt. Mule, Dio, Black Sabbath, Sting, Radiohead, Earth Wind and Fire, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Tears For Fears, Simple Minds, Duran Duran, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Santa Clara Corn Dance songs, Denali, My Scarlet Life, Ambulette, Portishead, Funk Shui
Movies
Star Wars Saga, The Milagro Beanfield War, Top Secret, 2046, Blade Runner, THX-1138, The Name Of The Rose, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Master Of The Flying Guillotine, Never Cry Wolf, Excalibur, Half Baked, Rattle And Hum, The Godfather Trilogy, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Scarface, Inner Space, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad, The Goonies; The David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Woody Allen, Coen Bros, Zuckers & Abrahams, Pixar, Jeunet & Caro, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, and Sam Raimi milieu, The Exorcist, Batteries Not Included, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Prince Of Darkness, Revenge Of The Nerds, Heavy Metal, The Game, Kill Bills, Pulp Fiction, Lone Star, Zen And The Asteroid, The Count Of Monte Cristo, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, The Fountainhead, Cool Hand Luke, Lonely Are The Brave, Running Brave, Windwalker, Chronicles of Riddick, Sling Blade, Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, more to come...
Television
The Simpsons, Land of the Lost, Seinfeld, In Search Of, Fawlty Towers, The Dukes of Hazard, Austin City Limits, Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom", Headbangers Ball, Family Guy, Modern Marvels, Real People, That's Incredible, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Battlestar Galactica, The A-Team, Loony Tunes, Iron Chef, The Twilight Zone, Ronco 1/2 Hour Commercials, Kung-Fu, Space: 1999, Hee-Haw, Lawrence Welk, Carl Sagan's "Cosmos", Tic-Tac-Dough, The X-Files, Extreme Engineering, American Chopper, C-span, Alex Jones, Star Trek The Next Generation, Nova, and yes...The OC
Books
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, The Golden Age trilogy by John C. Wright, 1984 by George Orwell, Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell, Mark Twain, The Milagro Bean Field War by John Nichols, Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Human Action by Ludwig Von Mises, The Art of Modern Rock by Paul Grushkin & Dennis King, National Geographic's "Our Universe", The Graves of Academe by Richard Mitchell, Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers trilogy, Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, Lord of the Rings trilogy by Tolkein, Parliament of Whores by P.J. O'Rourke, The Odes of Pablo Neruda, Capitalism by George Reisman, The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff, The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Truly Tasteless Jokes by Blanche Knott
Heroes
Ayn Rand, Aristotle, Ludwig von Mises, Thomas Sowell, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick von Hayek, Cochise, Murray Rothbard, Mahatma Gandhi, John D. Rockefeller, I.M. Pei, Frederic Bastiat, George Orwell, Lao Tzu, Frank Lloyd Wright, Isabel Patterson, Sun Tzu, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Jefferson, Po'pay, George Lucas, Billy Corgan, David Gilmore, Rob & Dean Deleo, Don Mickey, Edward Tufte, Roger Dean
About me: The purpose of my life is to pursue and achieve the greatest possible happiness. As a radical idealist, I've had no choice but to enshroud myself in ample drapings of protective cynical humor. In my company you'll soon find yourself doubling over in uncontrollable laughter or fleeing in horrified bewilderment. I am a musician and graphic artist. I was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grew up in Santa Fe. I moved to Austin in 1999 to play music and accumulate design clients. I now live in Albuquerque and work as the creative director at Don Mickey Designs, a graphic design and printing concern, and am recording the album Oecumene with my band Daffodil.
How's it goin bro? I saw this and it reminded me of what we were talking about the other night. You've probably already seen it (or one similar) but its pretty damn funny and accurate...
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. -- George Bernard Shaw
Dude, I saw this guy the other day and I was all, oh my god, there's uppie, and then I looked again and said no, that's not him. But damn, I swore it was you, bro! I'm just sayin' but you know what I'm sayin.
