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Books: "The Talisman" by King and Straub, "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman, anything by Dean Koontz and James Patterson, "The Metamorphosis" by Kafka, "Neverwhere" by Gaiman, "Mystery" by Peter Straub, Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series.  Yep I'm a Tower junkie.

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Favorite Music: I enjoy in no order other than alphabetical, afi, alice in chains, audioslave, bad religion, barenaked ladies, ben folds five, beck, jeff beck, black crowes, blue oyster cult, bon jovi, jeff buckley, bush, cake, eric clapton, elvis costello, counting crows, the cranberries, early creed, the cure, dashboard confessional, the deftones, disturbed, dream theater, eve6, everclear, flaw, filter, foo fighters, fuel, garbage, godsmack, the goo goo dolls, green day, ben harper, jimi hendrix, incubus, billy joel, jack johnson, linkin park, liquid tension, matchbox 20, dave matthews band, metallica, thelonious monk, nine inch nails, nirvana, our lady peace, ours, pearl jam, a perfect circle, pink floyd, puddle of mudd, queensryche, radiohead (both new AND old), R.E.M., red hot chili peppers, rush, santana, semisonic, sevendust, seven mary three, silverchair, sloan, smashing pumpkins, soundgarden, bruce springsteen, stabbing westward, stone temple pilots, sunny day real estate, james taylor, third eye blind, tool, travis, U2, velvet underground & nico, vertical horizon, the wallflowers, weezer, wilco, johnny winter, yes, and pete yorn.

Top Fifteen Favorite Albums of all Time
(to listen to continuously in my cd changer)
 
1. Rush: Moving Pictures
2. Incubus: Make Yourself
3. A Perfect Circle: Mers De Noms
4. Dream Theater: Scenes from a Memory
5. u2: Achtung Baby
6. Tool: Lateralus
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Californication
8. Radiohead: Ok Computer
9. Soundgarden: Superunknown
10. U2: The Joshua Tree
11.Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
12. The Deftones: White Pony
13. Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie
14. Pearl Jam: V.S.
15. Dream Theater: Images and Words

Favorite Songs Ever Written: The Essentials
 
1. U2: One
2. The Who: Baba O'Reilly
3. Rush: 2112
4. Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb
5. Radiohead: Karma Police
6. Depeche Mode: Barrel of a Gun
7. Dream Theater: Beyond This Life
8. A Perfect Circle: The Nurse Who Loved Me
9. Pearl Jam: Better Man
10. REM: Everybody Hurts

Favorite Guitarists
 
1. Jeff Beck- Blow By Blow
2. Joe Satriani- Crystal Planet, The Extremist
3. John Petrucci (Dream Theater)- Metropolis Pt. 2
4. Tom Morello- Rage and Audioslave
5. Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
6. Pete Townsend (The Who)- Tommy
7. Angus Young- ACDC
8. Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd)- Dark Side
9. Billy Howerdel (Perfect Circle)- Mers De Noms
10. Mike Einziger (Incubus) - Make Yourself

Favorite Movies: "Donnie Darko", the "LOTR" collection, anything by Tim Burton, "The Crow", "The Italian Job", "Confidence", "The Sting", "Back to the Future", "Pink Floyd's The Wall", "Pulp Fiction", "Notting Hill", "My Life", "Memento", "Rain Man", "The Matrix", "Bugsy", "Life as a House", "Office Space", "Big Trouble", "Born on the Fourth of July", "Platoon", "JFK," "Waiting for Guffman", any "Indiana Jones" movies, "Full Metal Jacket", "Groundhog Day", "A Clockwork Orange", "Scent of a Woman", "High Fidelity", "Amelie", "The Pianist", "A Beautiful Mind", "The Matrix", "Sex, Lies, and Videotape", "The Usual Suspects", "Roxanne", "The Phantom Tollbooth", "Poltergeist", "Trading Places", "Field of Dreams", "Silence of the Lambs", "Stand by Me", "Shawshank Redemption", "The Green Mile"

My Favorite Plays: "Waiting for Godot" by Beckett, "Twelfth Night" by Shakespeare, "Our Town" by Wilder, "The Pension Grillparzer" by John Irving, "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by Luigi Pirandello, "Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer, "Cyrano De Bergerac" by Rostand, "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" by Martin, "The Crucible" by Miller, "A View from the Bridge" by Miller, and "Death of a Salesman (also by Miller). "Arsenic and Old Lace" by Kesselring  "The Man Who Came to Dinner" by Kaufman and Hart, "Dark of the Moon" by Richardson and Berney, "The Curious Savage" by John Patrick, "Italian American Reconciliation" by John Patrick Shanley (author of Moonstruck!), "Ah, Wilderness", "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Eugene O'Neill, "Arcadia" and "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard, "Cabaret" by Kander and Ebb, "The Cherry Orchard" by Checkov, "Book of Days" and "Fifth of July" by Lanford Wilson, "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Wendy Kesselman.  And thats just to name a few!

Favorite Links:

Sonoma State University

International Theatre Design Archive

Audioslave official website

Art.com, check out the classics and expand your mind, man

MXTabs.net, a fun site with plenty of guitar tabs for tons of songs.