Selected (drafts of) songs recorded by me and/or friends:

1. modern day witch

2. the miser's plight

3. life's chiaroscuro

4. my favorite fish

5. swamp monster (volume warning at 4:17; courtesy of Kyle Cody)

6. Titanium dioxide

7. Brooklyn horror (improv collaboration)

8. Mountain dew is made of corn

Some selected poems I have enjoyed:

• An Immortal poem of Emily Dickinson

• The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth

TV shows / anime, movies, and writings I fully recommend [not an exhaustive list; in no particular order]: 

• The Incredibles

• Naruto

• Avatar: The Last Airbender (movie does not exist)

• "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The book Holes (the movie is also a good one)

• Shrek (suggested by Colin Burke; indeed)

• The Man Who Knew Infinity (book; movie also exists and is somewhat dramatized)

• A Beautiful Mind (book is a biography of John Nash; again, movie exists, is quite different from the book and dramatized)

• Tokyo Godfathers (tremendous dub)

• Cowboy Bebop (dub is phenomenal)

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• She-Ra (Netflix Original)

• Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)

• Precious Knowledge (Ari Palos)

• Temple Grandin (film)

Some of my favorite musicians/bands (check them out sometime!!)

• Vivienne [FELT] (she's a vocalist; listen to "Crumbling", "Puppet in the Dark",  and "Segredo")

• Shawn Lane ("The Tritone Fascination" and "Powers of Ten", and "Juvalamu"!)

• Allan Holdsworth ("The Sixteen Men of Tain")

• Eric Dolphy ("OUT TO LUNCH!")

• Darrell Abbott (here's cover of a KISS song by him and another song "Cemetary Gates")

• John Coltrane ("My Favorite Things" and "Wise One" and "A Love Supreme")

• Randy Rhoads (check out this version of "Crazy Train")

• ZZ Top (I had the pleasure to catch them live once)

• Zakk Wylde (listen to the songs "Crazy Horse" and "In This River")

• Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (check out "From the Beginning" and "Tarkus")

• The excellent verses of MC Ren et al. (e.g. "Appetite for Destruction")

• Matt and Mike Bednarsky ("This Beautiful Place"; and, the band Ginkgo Balboa)

• John Scofield ("A Go Go")

• Ralph Towner (Oceanus)