Activities:Cooking, eating, reading, martial arts, playing my guitar, the outdoors, permaculture, cycling, singing along with the radio Intellectual: reading and researching mathematics, linguistics, physics, cosmology, psychology, theology, philosophy (continental, postmodern, logical positivism, Nietzsche, Cioran, Wittgenstein, etc. );
poets, brains, infidels&heathens, thinkers, lovers, fighters, cooks, philosophers, mathematicians, writers, musicians, people of substance and personality
Metal, 90's seattle scene grunge, 80's, singer/songwriters, classical, jazz, atmospheric, trip hop, alternative Some bands: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Metallica (first 5 albums), The Police/Sting, Tears for Fears, Smashing Pumpkins, Talking Heads, Johnny Cash, Gordon Lightfoot, Mark Kozelek (RHP, Sun Kil Moon), Dead Can Dance ( Brendan Perry moreso than Lisa Gerrard ), the Cure, the Smiths, The Blue Nile, New Order, Joy Division, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, etc etc
American Beauty, A Beautiful Mind, City of Lost Children, Faust, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the Lost Boys, Requiem for a Dream, Pulp Fiction
Jeopardy, cooking shows, nature shows, Simpsons, Family Guy, classic Warner Bros. cartoons
fiction: Durrell, Tolkienn, Fowles, classics (ancient and modern), some sci-fi/cyberpunk, Lovecraftian horror, late 19th and 20th century literature; poetry: Rilke, MacNiece, Cavafy, Morrison, Poe, Baudelaire
Eric Hoffer