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Andrew

About Me

Utter geek, mildly neurotic.

My Interests

Ummm....who knows.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone.

Music:

Brian Eno, Mike Oldfield, Mark O'Connor, Future Sound of London, Thievery Corporation, Vaughan Williams, Herbie Hancock, Vivaldi, Bach, Paul Simon, Yo-Yo Ma, Martyn Bennett, Yoko Kanno, David Byrne, Lemon Jelly, Pizzicato Five, Moby

Movies:

Lord of the Rings, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Baraka, Coen Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas (with the usual exceptions), Frank Capra, Hayao Miyazaki, nature documentaries (not sure if they count as "movies" though), Ghostbusters, Fahrenheit 451, Excalibur, The Usual Suspects, Casablanca (yes, I know, everyone puts that, but it's true, I swear), disaster movies

Television:

Mystery!, Law and Order, Red Dwarf, Nova, Blackadder, Due South, any well-written mystery show

Books:

Fiction: Herman Hesse, Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, Eliot Pattison, Robert Graves, Saul Bellow, William Gibson, E.M. Forster, Graham Greene, Alfred Bester, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Douglas Adams, Madeleine L'Engle, Arthur C. Clarke, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Michael Moorcock, John Le Carre, Ken Follet, Stanislaw Lem, James Clavell, Isaac Asimov

Non-fiction: Stephen Jay Gould, Clifford Pickover, Howard Zinn, Richard Feynman, Isaac Asimov

Poetry: Richard Wilbur, Theodore Roethke, Pablo Neruda, Rabindranath Tagore, Edward FitzGerald, Omar Khayyam, Wallace Stevens, Sorley MacLean, e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, Barbara Howe, Vachel Lindsay, Langston Hughes, Isaac Asimov

Heroes:

Rabindranath Tagore, Howard Zinn, Julia Child, Jimmy Buffett, Harry Truman, Isaac Asimov