* Life’s passion: Writing. (Out of the dozen short stories I’ve submitted to magazines, I managed to get one published. Just finished the first draft of my 325 page novel. Now time to edit, edit, and, edit.)
* Misc.: Physics (Cosmology), History, Politics
You! (Unless you're a butthead...)
On my shelf: ABBA, Apop Berzerk, Assemblage 23, DJ Brian (of Hard Desert Trance fame), Nick Cave, Richard Cheese, Collide, Covenant, The Creatures, Delirium, Depeche Mode, Danny Elfman, Eminem, Faith and the Muse, Tom Jones, Miranda July, Marilyn Manson, Dean Martin, Massiv In Mensch, NIN, Sinead O’Connor, Oingo Boingo, The Orb, Pink Floyd, Prince, The Police, Portishead, Roxette, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Snake River Conspiracy, Stereo Total, The Sugarcubes, Switchblade Symphony, VNV Nation, Wall of Voodoo, Wolfsheim, Wumpscut, various Ambient, Goth, Industrial, New Wave compilations and Trance/House mixes.
Thanks, Armi!
Amelie, Army of Darkness, Back to the Future, Blue Velvet, The Butterfly Effect (director's cut), Children of Men, The Crow, Dead Alive, The English Patient, Hero, Highlander, The Last of the Mohicans, The Matrix, Napoleon Dynamite, Re-Animator, Serenity, Shaun of the Dead, Sin City, Spiderman II, Star Wars IV, Strange Days, Underworld. Anything with Audrey Hepburn. Anything by James Cameron or Sam Raimi.
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Every Treker (i.e. Star Trek fan) knows the original Enterprise was build in orbit at the Utopia Planitia shipyards. Sheesh!
Gawd, I hope this doesn’t suck…
The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Extras, Arrested Development (RIP), Firefly (RIP), The Office (the British version, RIP), The Man Show (RIP), Family Guy (RIP -no, wait...), The McLaughlin Group, Robot Chicken, The Sarah Silverman Show, The Soup, Tim and Eric Awesome Show. (Dirty secret: Cheaters) Anything with Will Arnett, David Cross or Ricky Gervais.
2010, (Guilty pleasure: The Da Vinci Code) Dune, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Legacy of Heorot, Sudden Awakening, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, Harper's, The New Yorker. (Do the last four count?)
Childhood: Carl Sagan.
Current: Me.