Bronze/Iron Age Culture,the Mycenaean Greeks,the Etruscans..Archaeology: Prehistorical,Classical,and Precolumbian. Reading (historical fiction/science fiction),Music, Walking, Biking, Kayaking, Going Out on the Town!
Anyone who is friendly, honest, and likes music! ////////// THE REAL CARLTON //////////////STEVEN WILSON OF PORCUPINE TREE, MY FAV BAND!///
I play the guitar and piano. I like to write and perform my own stuff locally. (I play bluesy pop). Prog./Jazz/Psychedelic rock is on my mp3, though. I have no boundries or standards, if I like, I like. (check out my original music at myspace.com/privia)
I follow directors, like David Lean, David Lynch, Merchant/Ivory, John Ford, Orson Wells, Alfred Hitchcock, John Milius, Fredrico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci...anything by these guys comes naturally to me.
HBO's Rome, The Sopranos, The O'Reilly Factor,The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, Maryland Public Television, Old Series: Star Trek, Daniel Boone, whatever David Janssen played in..Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Love American Style, Don Kirsners Rock Concert, eary Sat. Night Live, Warner Brothers cartoons and Johnny Quest!
Everything by Mary Renault, Gary Jennings, Jack McDevitt, Steven Pressfield. Some books by Ursula Le Guin, Robert Charles Wilson, Larry Niven, S.M. Stirling, Colleen McCullough, Theodore Dreisor, Wilbur Smith, David Brin, Ken Follett, Thomas Berger....the list goes on..
Todd Rundgren, Lance Armstrong, Neil Armstrong, George Washington, Daniel Boone, Abraham Lincoln, Ghandi, Winston Churchill, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Chief Joseph, and my Father.