I spend most of my free time either listening to or creating music. I play guitar constantly, it is my passion. I also spend a fair amount of time reading, anything from Vonnegut to Hemingway to Charles Pierce. I'm a huge sports fan.

I smoke a lot of pot, and am probably a borderline binge alcoholic. So it goes.

Music is very important to me, and I have very eclectic tastes, from Jazz to Blues, from Classic Rock to Metal, from Classical to Reggae, Alternative to Punk. A few of my favorite artists:
Al Di Meola
Alice in Chains
Audioslave
B.B. King
Bad Brains
Bad Company
The Beatles
Billy Joel
Black Sabbath
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Bob Seger
Cacophony
The Cars
Catch-22
Coheed & Cambria
CCR
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
Dire Straits
Dizzy Gillespie
The Doors
Dragonforce
Dream Theater
The Eagles
Earth Wind & Fire
Elton John
Eric Clapton
Foo Fighters
Frank Zappa
Gary Moore
Gentle Giant
George Thorogood
Incubus
Iron Maiden
Jack Johnson
Jethro Tull
Jimi Hendrix
Joe Satriani
John Lennon
Johnny Cash
John Coltrane
Johnny Lang
Journey
Judas Priest
The Kinks
Led Zeppelin
Living Colour
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Mars Volta
Megadeth
Metallica (Early days, everything post-Load sucks)
Miles Davis
Muddy Waters
Neil Young
Nirvana
Oasis
Otis Redding
Opeth
Out of Favor Boys
Phil Collins
Pink Floyd
The Police
Prince
Queen
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Robin Trower
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Rolling Stones
Ronnie James Dio - THE best metal/hard rock vocalist ever.
Rush
Santana
Say Anything
Shinedown
Silverstein
Steely Dan
Steppenwolf
The Steve Miller Band
Steve Vai
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Styx - Say what you will, I love 'em.
Sublime
Supertramp
Tenacious D
Thelonius Monk
Tool
Trivium
Whitesnake
The Who
The Yardbirds
Yes
Yngwie Malmsteen
ZZ Top

Eh, so much for a few, I got a bit carried away there...As you can see, music is a big part of my life.