Science and math are numero uno in my book. Writing, music, theatre, tattoos, and other forms of artistic expression are also very important. I love dogs, reptiles (especially snakes), and creepy-crawlies. I read A LOT. I like living in an urban environment, but spend as much time with Nature as possible. I'm a naturalist, but I also enjoy the mythical, especially dragons. I have the utmost respect for one Mr. Charles Darwin, who was not a particularly smart or creative man, nor an experimentalist, but a fantastic observer of the world around him. Sometimes we get so caught up in all our hypotheses and theories that we forget to just stand back and look at what we're investigating. Thanks, Darwin. We really owe you one.
A heart attack.
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My musical tastes run the gamut, but mostly center on metal, punk rock, and folk/western swing (I grew up in East Texas, after all).
Weird movies, horror movies, foreign films, and any combinations thereof: Alphaville, Bucket of Blood, Blood Feast, The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari, City of Lost Children, Killer Condom, Aliens, Crazy Hong Kong, Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, Danger Diabolic, Untold Story, Blue Velvet, Salo, Cannibal Holocaust, Blood Freak, Death Race 2000, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Parents, Suspiria, Even Dwarfs Started Small, The Wicker Man, Battle Royale, Gattaca, etc. I also take pleasure in cult classics, musicals, rock operas, and anything else that is over-the-top. And, oh my! Let's not forget Baxter - one of my childhood favorite weird French movies, which is told from the point of view of a homicidal dog that can think and tha... or, who, rather, if he's conscious... churns out deep existential platitudes for the majority of the film.
Red Dwarf!
Darwin, Darwin, Darwin--The Voyage of the Beagle; On the Origin of the Species; The Descent of Man; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals; The Power of Movement in Plants. Other books--The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul; Darwin: A Life in Science; The Man Who Found the Missing Link; Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--From the Babylonians to the Maya; 1421: The Year China Discovered America; Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid; The Memory of the Modern; Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds; Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity; Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen; Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace; Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem; Bayesian Survival Analysis; The Geometry of Rene Descartes; The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra; Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Social Consequences; The Undergrowth of Science; Fly: An Experimental Life; American Colonies; Crossroads of Freedom--Antietam: The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War; In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692; Queen Silver: The Godless Girl; Critique of Pure Reason; The Essence of Christianity; Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology; Mind Matters: How Mind and Brain Interact to Create Our Conscious Lives; Nature's Mind: The Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language, and Intelligence; Consciousness and the Brain. Anything by: Carl Sagan, Antonio Damasio, Friedrich Nietzsche, Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Bukowski, Mark Twain, Jeff Noon, Neil Gaiman, and some others I can't think of right now. I also love, love, love classic literature and mythologies.
My dad. ( www.thislife.org/ra/106.ram )