Music - especially metal varieties, electronica, prog rock,some soundtrack music etc....I have an ecletic taste in music.....Probably the only styles i definitely hate are rap/hip-hop,ska and country music. There is usually very little commercial music I like.....though i did get into a lot more 'pop music' in the late 70s til the mid 80s. I Love reading certain books and magazines. Also have great interest in psychology,philosophy,etc.... I am an avid lover of nature and also enjoy walking in the country, observing the stars,storms, and the weather. I often get over excited whenever a storm with fierce lightning and thunder is approaching and surrounding, and quickly morph into a child like state!
I am a fanatic at collecting photos of various nature scenes such as space, storms, and clouds off the net. Digital photography has also become an interest and i see this developing a lot more.I also regularly run and lift weights, but moderately these days compared to my early 20s.I also love talking with friends about life in general and discussing what life is really all about. Nothing is better than simply passionate conversation with close friends. I enjoy movies but don't go to the movies as much as i'd like and used to, or watch dvds as much either.
I'd like to meet:
my friends here at Myspace.com, many of my favourite music artists and book authors, and those who i connect with here in some meaningful way.
Music:
METAL - many sub genres such as power metal,prog metal, thrash metal,classic metal etc......., ELECTRONICA -especially experimental and atmospheric forms, and Prog Rock are my favourite styles in general...though i hate labelling too much as these genres can have many sub genres and everyone often has their own preconceived idea of music styles.Some of my favourite artists are:
Tourniquet, Sacred Warrior, Believer, Vengeance(Rising),Once Dead, Deliverance, The Crucified, Circle of Dust and Celldweller, Visionaire(now Ikarian), Saviour Machine, Neal Morse, Rob Rock, Theocracy, Jacobs Dream, Betrayal, Stavesacre, Level, Mortal, Whiteheart,Steve Taylor, Iona, Fearful Symmetry, Narnia, Divinefire, Orphan Project, Visual Cliff,Protokaw,Orphan Project, My Silent Wake......
Also other artists such as:
Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, Balance of Power, Symphony X, Pyramaze, Masterplan, Sabaton, Fear Factory,Nevermore,Opeth,Devin Townsend,
Orbital, Kraftwerk,Electric Light Orchestra(ELO), Ayreon, The Police, Mike Oldfield, Alan Parsons, Enya,Vangelis, some Van Halen and Sammy Hagar,Audioslave,also - Gridlock,Architect, Beefcake,Autechre,Aphex Twin,Boards of Canada,Mark Van Hoen and Locust,Higher Intelligence Agency,The Black Dog and many other electronic experimentalists, some Madonna, some Goldfrapp, some Moby, and soundtrack music such as 1492, Blade Runner, Donnie Darko,The Abyss......
Movies:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Abyss, Dances with Wolves, The Matrix, Titanic, Blade Runner, Good Will Hunting, The Terminator, Last of the Mohicans, Dark City, Enemy of the State, October Sky, Aliens, Back to the Future trilogy, The Spitfire Grill,Groundhog Day,Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Corporation, Enron, Super Size Me, and many others such as Toy Story 1 and 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc, Galaxy Quest, etc .......Also docos such as 'Unlocking the Mystery of Life- The Scientific Case for Intelligent Design', and 'The Privileged Planet'
Television:
Some favourite ever series:Fawlty Towers, Get Smart, The Simpsons, Babylon 5, Star Trek-The Next Generation, The X-Files,John Bradshaw tv specials on 'The Family' etc,Newstopia and Shaun Micalef, The Chaser (War on Everything,CNNNN etc), Seinfeld,The Goodies,Freaks and Geeks (RIP)- only one season!(Not Fair!), Heroes - best series on tv for quite a while!...Also like some nature shows and various docos....English comedy is usually my favourite type of tv comedy, though strangely i like the US version of 'The Office' more than the English version.
Books:
I love many books. Some of my favourites....The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse - Johnson and VanVonderen, The Far Side books by Gary Larson,
The Really Bad Thing About Free Will, and How to be free from sin While Smoking a Cigarette - Martin Zender,
The Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning,
Dangerous Wonder - Mike Yaconelli,
The Return of the Prodigal Son - Henri Nouwen,
Meeting God in the Darkness - Robert Hudnut,
Rethinking the Wineskin,Pagan Christianity,Who is your Covering? - Frank Viola,
The Great Dance, God is For Us - Baxter Kruger,The Inescapable Love of God - Thomas Talbott
GraceLand,GraceRules,Gracewalk - Steve McVey,
The Shaping of Things to Come - Frost and Hirsch,12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee - John Fishcher,
In the Beginning Was Information - Werner Gitt, Signs of Intelligence - William Dembski etc....There are many more loved books - too numerous to list here.
