Philosophy, literature, art, music, history, religions, movies, good television, good food, good drink, friendship, the sea, steam engines, playing my harmonica, and many other things.
If you know anyone who would like to make my acquaintance please do have them drop me a line. For myself I guess I would be interested in meeting anyone with a shared interest in philosophy or the arts or anyone who is just interested in exploring what it means to 'be,' how such a condition is possible, and what consequences our insights would or ought to have for our lives.
Classical Music, folk music from around the world, pop, rock, blues, experimental. Here's a few names in ABC order: Alash, Alec K. Redfearn, Aquabats, Baby Gramps, John Adams, Mily Balakirev, Granville Bantock, Bela Bartok, Samuel Barber, Arnold Bax, The Beatles, Ludwig Beethoven, the Beijing Opera, Beirut, Hector Berlioz, The Black Heart Procession, Arthur Bliss, Luigi Boccherini, Alexander Borodin, Johannes Brahms, Jacques Brel, Cannelle, Captain Beefheart, Peter Case, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Calude Debussy, The Decemberists, John Denver, The Doors, The Dubliners, Antonin Dvorak, Flanders and Swann, Josephine Foster, Cesar Franck, Gilbert and Sullivan, Alexander Glazunov, Reinhold Gliere, Mikhail Glinka, Great Glass Elevator, Woody Guthrie, George Frederic Handel, Lou Harrison, Hazmat Modine, Bernard Herrmann, Gustav Holst, Alan Hovhaness, Idealism, Charles Ives, Leos Janacek, Junior Senior, Vasily Kalinnikov, The Killers, Led Zeppelin, Tom Leher, Anatol Liadov, Matisyahu, Darius Milhaud, Mississippi John Hurt, Modest Mouse, Moriarty, Wolfgang Mozart, Modest Mussorgsky, Carl Nielsen, Turlough O'Carolan, o'death, Hiroshi Ohguri, Harry Partch, Paul Pena, Edith Piaf, The Pogues, Giacomo Puccini, Sergei Rachmaninov, R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders, Ottorino Respighi, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, The Rum Circus, Camille Saint-Saens, Ryan Shakman, Shanghai Triad, Robert Schumann, Rodion Shchedrin, Dimitri Shostakovich, Jean Sibelius, Bedrich Smetana, Frank Stokes, Igor Stravinsky, Tan Dun, Telegram, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, They Might Be Giants, Virgil Thomson, Christopher Erik Thompson, The Tiger Lillies, Totally Radd!!, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Antonio Vivaldi, Tom Waits, William Walton
Akira, Anchorman, And the Ship Sails On, Arsenic and Old Lace, Atanarjuat, The Bank Dick, The Big Lebowski, The Big Sleep, Billy Budd, Bitter Harvest, Blue Velvet, Boudu Saved From Drowning, Braindead, Buster Keaton films, Captain Blood, Casablanca, Castle in the Sky, Character, The Chimes at Midnight, Conan the Barbarian, Dark Crystal, The Devils, Doctor Zhivago, Don't Shoot The Piano Player, The Elephant Man, F for Fake, Forbidden Zone, The Grand Illusion, The Great Dictator, His Girl Friday, Howl's Moving Castle, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The King and the Mockingbird, Kwaidan, The Lady Vanishes, The Last Laugh, Laurel and Hardy shorts, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Lola Montes, The Lord of the Rings, M, Man on the Flying Trapeze, The Man Who Would Be King, Max Fleischer cartoons, McCabe and Mrs Miller, The Miracle at Morgan Creek, Mulholland Drive, Murder He Said, Mutiny on the Bounty, My Man Godfrey, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, the films of Yuri Norstein, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Pineapple Express, Pirates of the Caribbean, Phantom of the Paradise, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Rio Bravo, Ruggles of Red Gap, The Rules of the Game, Russian Ark, The Saddest Music in the World, Sanjuro, The Sea Hawk, The Secret of Roan Inish, Serenity, Seven Samurai, Sideways, Spirited Away, Stagecoach, Steamboy, The Stranger, Stray Dog, Sullivan's Travels, Sunrise, The Testament of Doctor Mabuse, They Might Be Giants, The Thin Man, The Thirty Nine Steps, The Triplets of Belleville, Topsy Turvy, Touch of Evil, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Trial, Ugestu, The Unholy Three, Waiting for Guffman, Wampyr, The Wedding March, Yojimbo, Zardoz
Arrested Development, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Black Books, Bleach, Code Geass and Code Geass r2, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Deadwood, Firefly, Full Metal Alchemist, I Claudius, The Inspector Linley Mysteries, Inspector Morse, Inuyasha, Long Ago and Far Away, Monk, Monster, One Piece, QI, Rome, Rumpole of the Bailey, Sharpe's Rifles, Snuff Box, That Mitchell and Webb Look
Mostly Philosophy, fiction, poetry, history, and books on Japanese, Chinese, Greek, and Roman art and on the great comic book and comic strip artists. Here's the names of my favorite authors and those who I keep returning to whether I am in concord with them or not: Aeschylus, James Agee, Aristophanes, Isaac Babel, George Berkeley, William Blake, Brand Blanchard, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Jorge Borges, Bernard Bosanquet, Francis Bradley, Richard Brautigan, Robert Browning, James Bryce, Mikhail Bulgakov, Martin Buber, William Burroughs, Judith Butler, Cao Xueqin, Lewis Carroll, Miguel Cervantes, Gilbert Chesterton, the author of the Chin P'ing Mei, Chu Yuan, Samuel Coleridge, Robin Collingwood, Wilkie Collins, Confucius, Joseph Conrad, Hart Crane, Benedetto Croce, Jacques Derrida, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Conan Dolye, Du Fu, William Everson, Johann Fichte, Ford Madox Ford, Anatole France, Edward Gibbon, Nikolai Gogol, Ulysses Grant, Gunter Grass, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Hardy, Errol Harris, Jaroslav Hasek, Lafcadio Hearn, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Herodotus, Hitomaro, Homer, authors of the Holy Bible, Stephen Houlgate, Victor Hugo, William James, Alfred Jarry, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, John Keats, Weldon Kees, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Lachelier, Gottfried Leibniz, Sinclair Lewis, Li Po, Li Yu, Livy, Malcolm Lowry, Cormac McCarthy, John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, Herman Melville, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, David Mitchell, Lady Murasaki, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Oakeshott, Mervyn Peake, Charles Peirce, Plato, Po Chu-i, Ezra Pound, Willard Quine, Kenneth Rexroth, Merrill Ring, John Morris Roberts, Stanley Rosen, Dante Rossetti, Josiah Royce, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Shi Nai'an, Arthur Schopenhauer, William Shakespeare, William Shirer, Sophocles, Gary Snyder, Benedict de Spinoza, Robert Stevenson, Algernon Swinburne, Tao Yuan-Ming, Charles Taylor, Alfred Tennyson, William Thackeray, Dylan Thomas, Thucydides, John Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, Arthur Waley, Wang Wei, Edward Whittemore, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, William Carlos Williams, Yvor Winters, Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Wordsworth, Wu Cheng'en, William Yeats, Yuan Mei
My friends and my family