Bach(J. S., J. C., and W. F.), Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven (Specifically “Pastoral” symphony no. 6 in F Major and Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor), Pachelbel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Astor Piazzolla, Tchaikovsky, System of a Down, Buckethead, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Remy Zero, Alien Ant Farm, Jimmy Eat World, Eve-6, Korn, Jet, Papa Roach, The Killers, Pearl Jam, Blue October, Cold, Wheatus, Enanitos Verdes, Molotov, Jaguares, Juanes, Dividos, Plain White T's, Jimmy Buffet, MudVayne, 6 am, Yellowcard, Evanescence, Collective Soul, Everclear, Neurosonic, Blink-182, Good Charlotte, Red Hot Chile Peppers, Franz Ferdinand, Stone Temple Pilots, The Yea Yea Yea’s, Panic! At the Disco, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Police, The Hives, The Vines, Greenday, The Darkness, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Audioslave, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Factory 81, Shovel, Shinedown, Simple Plan, The Cure, Styx, The Chemical Brothers, The Ringers, Modest Mouse, Citizen Cope (specifically “Let the drummer kick”), The Pixies, The Ramones, Ape Fight, Goldfinger, Deftones, Radiohead, Deathcab for cutie, Louis XIV, The Wallflowers, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Muddy Waters, Control Machete, The Byrds, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Coldplay (but don’t tell anyone)The Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa), Queen, Buckcherry, Bill Haley and the Comets, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Goo Goo dolls, No Doubt, Nirvana, Beck, The Nightwatchman, Rage Against the Machine, CCR, Sting, The Pretenders, The Police, Godsmack, Metallica, Spineshank, The Strokes, Third-eye Blind, Blindeyes, The Cribs, Arcade Fire, Imogen Heap, Made in Mexico, Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives, Dick Dale, American Hi-Fi, Sum-41, The Mars Volta, 30 Seconds to Mars, Kill Hannah, Hawthorne Heights, All-American Rejects, The Who, Van Halen, Judas Priest, The Pillows, Aerosmith, AC/DC, 3 Days Grace, 3 Doors Down, Spacehog, Queensryche, Queens of the Stone Age, Chevelle, My Chemical Romance, Velvet Revolver, Blood Hound Gang, Gorillaz, Bon Jovi, Bare Naked Ladies, Cheap Trick, Dead Poetic, The Eagles, Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, Incubus, The Fratellis, Lit, Linkin Park, Lynyrd Skynyrd, A Perfect Circle, Puddle of Mud, Nickelback, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Rush, Disturbed, Marylyn Manson, Drowning Pool, HIM, Remstein (Don’t know how to spell it, “Du Haste”), Iron & Wine, Kid Rock, Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is, Cobra Starship, Fall Out Boy, Oleander, Orange Range, OutKast, Jurassic-5, Overkill, Rob Zombie, Seether, Smashmouth, Static-X, Slipknot, Tool, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Dead Kennedys, Flogging Molly, Eric Clapton, The Bee Gees, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, Offspring and plenty of others I can’t remember.

El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth), 300, Frida, The River Wild, The Invasion, Conspiracy Theory, A Mid-summer Night’s Dream, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Number 23, Dead Poet’s Society, Finding Forester, The Decent, The Pit and The Pendulum, Just Friends, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, Vincent (early T. Burton), Traffic, Training Day, The Last Legion, King Arthur, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Hot Fuzz, Sean of the Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street (all Freddy Kruger shit), The Faculty, What Dreams May Come, Behind Enemy Lines, Transformers, National Treasure, Accepted, Half Baked, How High, usually comedies (romantic, parody, satire, etc.), indi/art/philosophical films, horror, and action/suspense.

Fantasy (specifically involving Vampires, daemons, witches, or magic): Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Charmed, etc. Criminal/Medical Dramas: Bones, CSI (prefer Vegas to all the others), NCIS, etc. Comedies/Sitcoms: How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, The Class (Did they cancel this show? it stopped airing in early spring), Scrubs, etc. Talk shows: The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Late Night With Conan O’Brian, PBS.......i miss cable!

Fiction:, Stephen King, John Saul, Dean Koontz (I think he’s a masterful story teller. His words jump off the page and seriously spook me. It’s not that the scene described is scary or horrific, simply that it is dark and has that element of the everlasting unknown, panic, and fear stitched so eloquently onto the page. I’ve resorted to sleeping with my desk lamp on), as a kid I enjoyed the slasher-horror of Christopher Pike and R. L. Stine (I think I’ve read all their books, and yes, that definitely includes Goosebumps), J.R.R Tolkien (Favourite and by far the most interesting: The Hobbit) Elizabeth Hayden, Robert Jordan, Eoin Colfer, Tom Clancy, Kevin Follet (hands down: Lie Down with Lions), Nora Lam (China Cry), James Paterson, John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Shannon Drake, Anne McCaffery, many, many others., Classic/Modern Lit:, Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Mary Shelly: Frankenstein, Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, Alice Walker: The Color Purple, Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee: The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, John Steinbeck: (I quite enjoy his naturalistic novels on proletarian themes)The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Cup of Gold, The Pastures of Heaven, To a God Unknown, The Long Valley, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, Bombs Away, The Moon is Down, East of Eden, Sweet Thursday, The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication, Once There Was a War, The Winter of Our Discontent, Travels with Charley in Search of America, America and Americans, Viva Zapata!, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden letters, Workings Days: the Journals of The Grapes of Wrath., Virgil: The Aeneid, Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns (possibly attributed to him)., Margaret George: The Autobiography of King Henry VIII, Françios Mauriac: La Farisea, Thomas Mann: Señor y Perro, Bertrand Russell: Fundamentos de la Filosofia, Also: Knowles, Hardy, Twain, Cooper, Conrad, Mahfouz, Fitzgerald, Miller, Melville, Peck, Rawls, Hawthorne, Stevenson, and many others that have simply slipped my mind., Art/Writing:, John H. Vanderpoel: The Human Figure, Harold Speed: The Practice and Science of Drawing, Tom Flint & Peter Stanyer: Anatomy for Artists, Betty Edwards: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, David K. Rubins: The Human Figure: an anatomy for artists, Leonard D. Duboff and Bert P. Krages, II: The Law in Plain English for Writers (4th), Bob Mayer: The Novel Writer’s Tool Kit, Josip Novakovich: Fiction Writer’s Workshop, Scott Edelstein: The Complete Writers Kit, Linda N. Edelstein: The Writer’s Guide to Character Traits, Gloria Kempton: Write Great Fiction: Dialogue, Pat Schneider: Writing Alone and With Others, James V. Smith, JR: The Writer’s Little Helper, Philosophy/Observational literature on the human life, thought, actions, theology, theoretical disciplines, war, government, nature, etc:, Henry David Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers., Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, Self-reliance, Representative Men, The Conduct of Life, and his Poetry (collected in Poems and May-Day)., Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century, (Of course, M. L. King JR, M. Gandhi, and everyone motivated by Emerson, Thoreau and Fuller are must reads.), Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (take your pick of edition, as there are many so to choose from, I suppose the most recent one would be best as it would be the most complete), Democratic Vistas, and Specimen Days & Collect., Karl Marx: Communist Manifesto, Wages, Price and Profit, Capital, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (with the inclusion of Marx, I must include Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, and Trotsky. Do not misconstrue this. By no means am I a communist. I am simply open to different view points. And really, how perfect is Democracy? At least on paper, their arguments on social order seem slightly less psychotic.), Pablo Neruda: Elemental Odes, Allen Ginsberg: Kaddish, Reality Sandwiches, The Fall of America, Mind Breaths, and Howl., Dante: The Divine Comedy (originally titled Commedia, widely known as Dante’s Inferno which was translated by Robert Pinsky), La Vita Nuova, The Banquet, De vulgari eloquentia (Concerning Vernacular Eloquence), and On Monarchy., Sun Tzu: The Art of War, Plato: Symposium