Communication, conversation, elaboration, observation, meditation, contemplation, deliberation, education, investigation, documentation, publication, creation, exploration, experimentation, speculation, imagination, fascination, emancipation, inspiration, illumination, exhilaration, translation, circulation, dissemination, information, siginification, explanation, interpretation, classification, relation, celebration, consideration, illustration, decoration, preparation, cultivation, generation, innovation, elevation, congregation, association, cooperation, collaboration, civilization, administration, habitation, reputation, sensation, vibration, fermentation, inhalation, aviation, gratification, animation, automation, technologization, quotation, donation, equation, vegetation, punctuation, pronunciation, abbreviation, transportation, destination, location, agitation, integration, accumulation, duration, narration, commemoration, preservation, salutation, confirmation, congratulation, commendation, coronation, affirmation, admiration, acclamation, adoration, revelation, transformation...
I'd like to meet:
Anyone with a good heart, and half a brain.
Music:
Yes, Grateful Dead, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Flo and Eddie, Jethro Tull, Talking Heads, Cold Play, The Who, Pink Floyd, Uriah Heep, Black Thorn, Joan Baez, Harry Chapin, Renaissance, Moody Blues, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Asia, Simon & Garfunkel, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, T-Rex, Whist, February, The Coasters, Grin, Elton John, Natalie Merchant, The Kinks, Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise, The B-52s, Devo, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Elvis Presley, It's a Beautiful Day, Circus Maximus, Rolling Stones, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, King Crimson, Genesis, Weird Al Yankovic, and the list goes on...
Movies:
All time favorites include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Altered States, Metropolis (restored version), Animal House (I lived it), Something About Mary, Until the End of the World, Dark City, Unbreakable, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, And Now for Something Completely Different, The Magic Christian, Head, J-Men Forever, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, Star Wars (all of them, but especially the first two and the last), Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., A.I., Star Trek II, III, IV, and XIII, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Singing in the Rain, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Godfather, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, The Deer Hunter, Annie Hall, Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Zelig, Radio Days, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, The Conversation, Just Imagine, Shrek I & II, The Gold Rush, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Limelight, A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Cocoanuts, Room Service, and the list goes on...
Television:
Battlestar Galactica, Sopranos, 24, South Park, The Office, Heroes, Boston Legal, The Office, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Jericho, Life on Mars, Smallville, Star Trek (all of the series, especially Deep Space Nine), Seinfeld, Larry David, Twin Peaks, Get Smart, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, SCTV, Lost in Space, My Mother the Car, Captain Nice, and the list goes on...
Books:
Favorite nonfiction authors: Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Susanne K. Langer, Jacques Ellul, Dorothy Lee, Harold Innis, Eric Havelock, Daniel Boorstin, Walter Benjamin, Edward Sapir, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Norbert Wiener, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Jack Goody, Edmund Carpenter, Camille Paglia, Jay David Bolter, Joshua Meyrowitz, Paul Levinson, Doug Rushkoff, Tony Schwartz, Susan Sontag, Ivan Illich, Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Elizabeth Eisenstein, S. H. Steinberg, Niklas Luhmann, Paul Watzlawick, Erving Goffman, Kenneth Gergen, Kenneth Burke, Alfred Korzybski, Wendell Johnson, S. I. Hayakawa, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fritjof Capra, Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Jacob Neusner, Lawrence Kushner, Albert Einstein, Moses et al., and the list goes on...
Favorite fiction authors include J.R.R. Tolkien (#1), Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Herman Hesse, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Gene Wolfe, Mary Shelley, Karel Capek, Edward Bellamy, Dan Simmons, Stanislaw Lem, Madeleine L'Engle, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, J. K. Rowling, Umberto Eco, Tom Wolfe, Dom DeLillo (Fordham alum!), Marleen Barr, Andrew Postman, Chuck Wachtel, Paul Levinson, Doug Rushkoff, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Mark Helprin, E. L. Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Dr. Seuss, Margaret Wise Brown, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Lewis Carroll, Norton Juster, Edwin A. Abbott, Lemony Snicket, A. E. van Vogt, Orson Scott Card, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Miguel de Cervantes, and the list goes on...
Favorite poets include J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Hunter, Jerry Harp, David Sobelman, Homer, Ovid, William Shakespeare, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Emma Lazarus, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Lear, Julia Ward Howe, Robert Forst, W. H. Auden, Maya Angelou, and the list goes on...
Favorite comics creators include Alan Moore, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Scott Adams, Art Spielgelman, Gardner Fox, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Sergio Aragonés, Grant Morrison, Julius Schwartz, Paul Levitz, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Charles Schulz, Gary Trudeau, Burke Breathed, Bill Watterson, George Herriman, Walt Kelly, Fred Hembeck, Doug Rushkoff, and the list goes on...
My Books: Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study ...Legacy of McLuhan ...
Communication and Cyberspace ...
Critical Studies in Media Commercialism ...
Heroes:
Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Susanne Langer, Jacques Ellul, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stanley Kubrick, Charlie Chaplin, Martin Buber, Elie Wiesel, Isaac Luria, Albert Einstein, Liviu Librescu, Akiba ben Joseph, Elijah, MosesandFrodo Baggins, Spider-man, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Tom Seaver, Art Shamsky, Ron Swoboda, Tug McGraw, Willis Reed, Larry Csonka, Humphrey Bogart, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Paul Simon, Peter Yarrow, Harry Chapin, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rodney Dangerfield, Mel Brooks, Number Six, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, John Cleese, all of the Firesign Theatre, Ian Anderson, Frankenstein from Death Race 2000, Harpo Marx, Bugs Bunny, Tobor the 8th Man, Will Robinson, Charlie Brown, Benjamin J. Grimm, and the list goes on...
