Music appreciation/creation, movies, philosophy, reading, socializing, board games, frisbee games, traveling; tom foolery, chicanery, and "habberdashery," not exactly in that order.
I'd like to meet:
King Solomon, Socrates, Chuang Tzu, JC, Marcus Aurelius, Pilgrim Marpeck, Descarte, Kant, Mozart, the Founding Fathers, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Charles Peirce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, FDR and Eleanor, Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sarte, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Lennon, Hunter S. Thompson, Noam Chomsky, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, the Edge, Thom Yorke, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, and of course, you. Not exactly in that order.
Music:
Mozart's "Requiem" and "The Marriage of Figaro"; Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture," "Sleeping Beauty," and "The Nutcracker Suite"; Rachmaninov's "Prelude in C# Minor" and "Vespers: All Night Vigil"; old delta blues (e.g. Robert Johnson, Skip James, et al.) or any blues without synthesizers; old country (e.g. Roy Whitley, Sons of the Pioneers, Johnny, Willie, Jerry Jeff Walker,et al.); The Beatles; Jimi Hendrix; Rolling Stones; Led Zepplin excluding "All of My Love" due to, again, synthesizers (there is a place for them, but not from the mid 70's through the mid 90's for the most part); some oldies and classic rock; "Weird Al" Yankovik helped me through Henderson banality; The soundtrack to "Shawshank Redemption" was and perhap is one of my favorite albums to listen to. I think Thomas Newman writes music for timless memory; Jeff Buckley's "Grace" is a snapshot of an autere; BRIAN ENO!!! "Music for Airports" is absolute bliss; Al Green; U2 ("POP" is my most personal, "Actung Baby!" is probably their best, and playing as a side band to Eno named as Passengers is probably the best kept musical secret of the last 15 years); Nirvana; Pearl Jam (thank you Freemanites not for the introduction but for your PJ passion); STP; I value honesty, so, I had an "interesting" dcTalk period; Metallica was influential in the high school weight lifting club; RADIOHEAD!!!; Sigur Ros' "()" was near perfection; BOB DYLAN!!! the early stuff, the electric stuff, and his three recent albums; Any TOM WAITS!!! though "Rain Dogs" is truly mind altering. I like almost every genre except for most modern country, Christian country, and poor uses of synths like Yanni, Mannheim Steamroller, and most New Age music.
Movies:
"Casablanca" probably has the best script ever; the original "Manchurian Candidate"; "Star Wars" movies for the most part; "Ghostbusters" was a childhood classic though my understanding of certain parts changed throughout the years; "Back to the Future" trilogy; "Indiana Jones" trilogy; I lived in a "Star Trek" and James Bond house; "Field of Dreams"; many people are sorry I ever saw "Ace Ventura"; "Shawshank Redemption"; "Pulp Fiction"; again, many people were sorry I ever saw "Austin Powers"; "THE BIG LEBOWSKI"!!!; I'm one of the few people who likes the whole "Matrix" trilogy ; "FIGHT CLUB"!!!; "American Beauty"; "LOTR" tirology; "The Whale Rider"; "Kill Bill" I and II, "Baraka"; The Qatsi trilogy. I'm fairly easy to please, actually.
Television:
"Kung Fu"; "NORTHERN EXPOSURE"!!!; "Roseanne"; "The Simpsons": "South Park"; "The Family Guy"; "Deadwood", "Carnivale"
Books:
Was raised on the Bible and I'm still amazed at what a bizzare collection of genres it is; "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by C. S. Lewis; William Butler Yeats; "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey; "Tao De Ching" by Lao Tzu; "The Sandman" graphic novels by Neil Gaiman transcend media; "The Tao of Phyics" by Fritof Capra; any Swift, Sterne, Wilde, or Beckett will do. Irish writers rock!; "The Phenomenology of Spirit" by Georg Hegel was a nice western philosophy companion to Capra's work in my mind; "Wastelands" by T. S. Elliot; "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman; "Innocent When You Dream" is a great collection of Tom Waits interviews; "Chronicles Vol. I" by Bob Dylan; give me Noam Chomsky any day.
Heroes:
Pretty much anyone I've listed thus far, but to summate;Anyone who:
1) Has a sense of humor
2) Is able to understand different points of view
3) Has courage to take on the abuses of the powerfulMy family is so amazing and a huge part of who I am. My friends, professors, and colleagues from college, of whom I will hold forever dear in my heart, for challenging me to think and feel beyond myself. Dale is an amazing model mediator.
