SCIENCE: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
DANCING: Lindy Hop, Charleston, Blues, Tango
OUTDOORS: Caving, Camping, Rappelling, Stargazing
OTHER: Billiards, Carpentry, Music, Electronics, Saxophone, Vodka, etc.
I'd like to meet:
More musician-dancers:
Music:
JAZZ: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Sidney Bechet, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Gene Harris, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gilespie, Thelonious Monk, Ray Brown;
ROCK: Elvis, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Go Cat Go;
HIP HOP: Digable Planets, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, En Vogue, Sublime;
COUNTRY: Johnny Cash, Robert Earl Keen;
SOUL: Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles;
TANGO: Carlos Libedinsky, Gotan Project, Lalo Schifrin;
CLASSICAL: Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky;
WORLD (by genre): Celtic, Mbira, Afropop, Azerbijian folk;
Really, anything as long as it's good!
Movies:
Pi; Before Sunrise; Shawshank Redemption; Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Television:
N/A - who has time for TV? Occasionally I'll watch TV, but not often. Sitcoms and reality shows bore me.
Books:
AUTHORS: Brust, Bujold, Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Tolkien, Yoshikawa.
I love to read; I average a couple books a week, but that includes rereads. I've strong tendancies towards SF/F, but I do read other fiction, as well as a lot of non-fiction (typically on jazz and science). I will tolerate poor writing in non-fiction, where the raw data may be of enough interest to sustain me, but in my fiction I have to have good writing, or I won't bother with it. "Calvin and Hobbes" still rocks!
Heroes:
Einstein (duh)
Feynman (shows me how to think about physics)
Kepler (who threw out his theories and theology in the face of his data)
Manning (who invented much of the dance I love)
Mom (I still solicit her advice and opinion on how to life my life better on a regular basis)
Dr. Kim (my first research advisor, who taught me a lot about scientific integrity)
