Traveling, music, writing, drawing, singing, dancing, playing guitar, playing the mandolin, playing the ukelele, playing the piano, playing violin, LGBTQ rights and activism, animal rights and activism, cooking, sleeping, reading, meeting new people, swimming, painting, poetry, and basically anything that can keep my interest.

Alice in Chains, Mad Season, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Stone Temple Pilots, Audioslave, Radiohead, Temple of the Dog, Nirvana, Brand New, Alkaline Trio, Counting Crows, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Sr., Conway Twitty, Glen Campbell, Janis Joplin, Blind Melon, Puscifer, Metallica, Guns N Roses, Atreyu, Motley Crue, Cher, Melissa Etheridge, Tracy Chapman, Alanis Morissette, Sick Puppies, Skinny Puppy, David Allan Coe, Sex Pistols, The Misfits, The Adicts, Dead Kennedy's, New York Dolls, Acid Bath, Goatwhore, EYEHATEGOD, Sweet Street Symphony, Mumford and Sons, Iron & Wine, Jethro Tull, Lana Del Ray, Miley Cyrus, Tracy Lawrence, Joy Division, Darius Rucker, The Lovin' Spoonful, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Above and Beyond, Tiesto, Markus Schulz, Oceanlab, Deadmau5, The Belle Curves, Velvet Acid Christ, Cradle of Filth, Staind, Jesus on Xtacy, Lil Wayne, Lil Boosie, Webbie, Kevin Gates, Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, Elvis, Jazz & Blues, GypsyElise & the Royal Blues Band, Hootie and the Blowfish, Classical music, Korn, Soundscapes and Dreamscapes, piano music, Vocal Trance, Trance, Dubstep, Mt. Eden, T. Pain, Ne-Yo, Usher, Tank, Nelly, Lifehouse, Bassnectar, Crystal Castles, The Steve Miller Band, Adam Sandler, Stevie Nicks, The Carpenters, OneRepublic, Bastille, Calvin Harris, Florence and the Machine, Florence Welch, Snootie Wild, Rich Homie Quan, Nikki Minaj, T-Pain, Young Thug, Hole, The Violent Femmes, Silverchair, Eminem, Alison Krauss, The Lumineers, and on and on.. this isn't even one 100th of the music I enjoy.

Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, The Basketball Diaries, Last Days, Gus Van Zandt films, Bela Lugosi, The Hangover, The Shining, Spun, A Scanner Darkly, Detropia, Gummo, Kids, Bully, Mean Creek, Cabin Fever, House of 1,000 Corpses, Devils Rejects, Soaked in Bleach, Kurt & Courtney, Sid & Nancy, Thelma & Louise, Rob Zombie's Halloween films, Nightmare on Elm Street/Freddy Kreuger films, The Dark Crystal, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1960's version), What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Titanic, Slumdog Millionaire, Dallas Buyers Club, A Time to Kill, The Green Mile, 8 Mile, Eat, Love, Pray; The Doors Movie, Lady & the Tramp, the Aristocats, Lion King 1&2, Monsters, Inc., Shrek 1,2&3, Ice Age, Up, A Beautiful Mind, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, The Outsiders, Natural Born Killers, Candy, Blow, Wonderland, all of the Fast and Furious movies, Life, Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, Cujo, Chucky/Child's Play films, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, The Neverending Story, Wizard of Oz, The Salton Sea, Get Rich or Die Tryin', Hustle and Flow, Pulp Fiction, Cocaine Cowboys, Smiley Face, all the Friday movies, Half Baked, Harold & Kumar movies, Katt Williams stand-up, George Carlin stand-up, Mitch Hedberg stand-up, Tommy the musical, Get Him to the Greek, Queen of the Damned, Interview with the Vampire, etc etc.

Layne Staley