Music, literature, geography, photography (though I still use slide film), trying to play the yang ch'in, warm weather, fall colors, Japanese cars, NORAC, women, my cats (Nicky, Joey, Kate, and Scott), linguistics and English usage, Latin usage, seeking audio perfection through the occasional use of vacuum tubes, beer, ferroequinology, all cats in general, making prodigious use of parentheses and commas, and probably some other stuff too. Don't ask me about sports, however. You could put all I know about sports on the head of a pin and still have room to spare. All I can tell you is that the size of the ball relates to the class of the sport in question...the larger the ball, the lower the class. And although I admit big cities have considerably more to offer in terms of culture, there is absolutely nothing more beautiful than the sky on a clear, starry night away from the ambient light of civilization. It's worth it.
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Conjure One, Delerium, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil (and all on 4AD), La Floa Maldita, Cocteau Twins, Tarnation, Lisa Gerrard, Love Is Colder than Death, His Name Is Alive, Fauxilage, Massive Attack, Deerhoof, Bel Canto, Lush, Tearwave, Balligomingo, Low, Flyleaf, Ronan Quays, Rhea's Obsession, Cranes, Love Spirals Downwards (and most stuff on Projekt), Front Line Assembly, Nine Inch Nails, Sarah McLachlan, Anne Dudley & Jaz Coleman, Poe, In The Nursery, Death Cab For Cutie, Sleepthief, Aimee Mann, Kirsty Hawkshaw, Morcheeba, The Paul Schwartz Project, Paul Oakenfold, Stellamara, Stella Maris, O Yuki Conjugate, Loreena McKennitt, Anchorage, Lunascape, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Tori Amos, The Pierces, Mediaeval Baebes, Katharine Blake, The Sundays, Falling You, Opus III, Sixpence None the Richer, Enya, Chandeen, Shelley Harland, Edera (Catrin Mallon et al.), Clan Of Xymox, Clannad, Aude, Stoa (the Hyperium group), Astor Piazolla, Faith and The Muse, Collection D'Arnell-Andrea, Black Eyed Peas, Thomas Dolby, System Of A Down, Gwen Stefani, amongst others. As a generalization, however, I enjoy female vocals as you might surmise.
-----------------------------------Below are a few of my favorite videos. These aren't randomly chosen- I chose them specifically to be indicative of what I'm about and "into", not only in music but in overall personality.Come Tenderness by Lisa Gerrard
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Too many. Hmm...I just watched "The Science Of Sleep". More on that later. But off the top of my head: Baraka, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Station Agent, Gladiator, Noises Off, the Philip Glass trio, The Jerk (old school, but funny). So many more to add when I get a moment.
I don't have a television. Haven't really watched any since early 1991. Every time I've had a TV I give it away just to keep my sanity. Most TV programming is annoying, dumbed-down, non-stimulating, and simplistic. Or I could just say it sucks. However, since you asked (or at least read this far), I have enjoyed Aqua Teen Hunger Force, MTV's Boiling Points, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (such disillusionment), SCTV, Mythbusters, some science fiction, Monty Python. Everybody says I'd like "Rome".
I read everything I can. Always have. Fiction, science fiction, history, documentaries. Kierkegaard to Stephen King, C.S. Lewis, Baudelaire, William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe. And after fifteen years, I still can't figure out what "Goedel-Escher-Bach" was proving. Yes, I have some Nicholas Sparks books as well, and they usually make me sad. Probably because I realize life isn't like his books.
Anyone who DOESN'T do the following:(1) Measure distance in minutes. Distance should be measured in inches, feet, yards, miles, and in non-US countries in variations of the metre. This is a common problem in the midwest USA.(2) Use buzzwords, catch phrases, and other plebian colloquialisms such as, but not limited to, "enhance your experience", "good to go", and "it's all good". And if I hear you utter the phrase "git 'er done", I will *never* speak to you again. Consider yourself forewarned.(3) Say "issue" when you mean "problem"; we can live without the verbosity. ;) Global warming or nuclear warfare is an issue...where to place a chair is not.
Lastly, I'd like to add that in a perfect world, I would have met the fictitious Emily the Strange when I was 15 and we'd have been happy ever after. :)