Music as a cultural phenomena and how it can be used to connect to cultures I didn't grow up in. I've come to the conclusion independently that hip hop and country music really are the same, just based around different ethnicities - something Brad Paisley, the country musician, apparently said in an interview some years ago.

Uh... I guess beyond that, I think about the digital renaissance a lot. Deus Ex deals with a lot of things that I think aren't too far off, though it dramatizes the reality a lot. Futurism fascinates me a lot. The blending of technology into our culture. Having read some of what Gibson wrote in the '80s puts a very interesting spin on life today, knowing that we're living his prediction of the future, just not in the precise form he wrote about.

I also like exploring the depths of what it means to be a conscious being. I've been really into studying and practicing meditation lately.