Health & happiness of my self & family motivates me to keep moving & learning. I don't put a lot of stock in words anymore, unless they unlock some higher function to life. The idea of "The Art of Life" really appeals to me, and the movie The Last Samurai inspires me to appreciate the world and to feel connected to it. WHOOPWHOOP! and for those who don't whoop,

I get 3 to 5 hours sleep a night, spend the hours of 0345 in the morning to 1730 in the afternoon conducting platoon PT, sitting in class after class, and doing miscellaneous training and I still go to the gym for a solid hour, sometines two, a day. Know yourself and seek self inprovement @sean-law just gotta want it bad enough. Sleep is the cousin of death

The honor would be mine

I've pretty much always been around music, my Uncle played in a lot of bands, and my parents had an extensive record collection. It all started because I thought playing guitar would be a fun thing to do, and it went from there. The inspiration has always been something I can't quite define, I just have this need to create. I also get a good bit of inspiration from wanting to leave behind a legacy of sorts. I want people to be able to look back not only at my work, but at the work of my friends as well, that's why I started my podcast, and organize music fests. I don't really plan on having kids, so whatever art I create, and relationships I develop are what I'll leave behind. I guess you could say "the human experience" is my greatest inspiration.

I've always wanted to do some kind of music since I was in the 6th grade. The shit I wrote then, well, wasn't good at all. I wrote something else in 7th. Never recorded it. Then, around 9th, I wrote something that was actually recordable, shown my brother, and he was blown away. 

Thats the first recording, I've shown before but I'll do it again. I was 14 at the time. 

http://youtu.be/oqmExRnFhaA

Then, came on here, realized that there's a LOT more work needed to make music that's actually somewhat listenable. So, you guys kinda inspired me. Because, I think, that my music quality went a little bit downhill after my first couple songs. I took your guys advice. And now, I'm gonna be on the new FLH tape. I think that's fuckin' awesome. 

My friend and Kid Rock I guess kinda inspired me, my friend said to make music like Chex Mix, a little bit of every style, some rock here, singing there, rap here, dark, positive, whatever. And Kid Rock, he went from like, Rap, then Rock, and Country, and I really think that's cool. 

The rest it like Monoxide said, "the rest is still being written like a biography" 

Everything I do is inspired by the Baginer. 

My wife and now my children are the current driving factors in life. The need to stay strong and continue using my unique form of rambunctious cautiousness in life is extra important in the aftermath of the death of my two brothers. And fallen friends, but mostly my brothers. 

As Hunter Thompson pointed out, we are all wired into a survival trip now. If I had kept in practice with writing and art, I could've easily entered into that world. Life happened too often, and as driven as I am, I remain lazy in my creative aspects. I take full blame. I am not too unhappy about not pursuing the talents I was blessed with; I sometimes wonder if being creative would have ever worked out. To explain this would take longer than I have patience or time for currently. So I do quietly mourn that possible alternate reality of someone who wrote books, drew pictures and made beats for a living as opposed to a cannabis dispensary manager that worked blue collar gigs for nothing his whole life. Driving trucks, dishwashing, janitorial, managing a darkroom, electrician, landscaping... so much time spent.

I used to make music under the name Old Mr. Dangerous, an inside joke with my brother, who went as DJ Big Texas. When he died, I think I made no more than a dozen beats. We used to collaborate and make solos just for fun. Just goofy, sample-ridden hip hop-ish music, rarely rapping. Putting the mp3's onto an actual CD and actually bumping them in front of flabbergasted strangers at the cpunty fair was just priceless. I don't have the time, the drive, the heart anymore. 

Also, psilocybin, dextromethorphan hydrobromide, lysergic acid diethylamide, cannabis, and the like were MAMMOTH inspirations in who I am today. I regret nothing, despite wanting things to have went differently at times.

My father, my brother, duke nukem, johnny bravo, and several of my Sgt's; (Drill Instructor) Sgt Bernson; (Drill Instructor) Sgt Baez; (Combat Instructor) Sgt Beadouin; and (MPIC Instructor) Sgt Fox to name a few are some of the great men that have and continue to motivate, inspire, and otherwise drive me to better myself every day.