WW-1 era Nietzschean figures like Teddy Roosevelt, D'Annunzio, Ezra Pound, Ernst Juenger, F.T. Marinetti, Jack London; interesting figures from history, like Cassanova, Cellini, Lucretius, Philip the Arab, Belisarius; old time noise musicians like, Antheil, Russolo, building pipe organs, travel, history, atomic physics, quantum chaos, quantum information theory, super-Turing architectures, reading, quantitative finance, operations research, optimization theory, playing bagpipes, antiquities (collecting), Rome, experimental music, Uechi and Filipino style karate, olympic lifting, old Mopars, kettlebells, old school strength training, Gracie jiu jitsu, opera, snobbery, early to early supersonic era military jet aircraft, 1920s, anabasis, ancient greece, antique radios, arc, art deco, arts & crafts movement, bachelorhood, bagpipes, baltasar gracian, bending iron, bjj, boxing, chickens, circus strongmen, d'annunzio, death guild, dressing well, Gurkhas, glory, the aegis, eggs, eric hoffer, ernst juenger, escrima, fascism, foppery, futurism, goblinko, graph theory, guns, h.l. mencken, heraclitus, japan, jeeves, judo, kettlebells, Thor, knife fighting, lie algebras, making fun of idiots, modesty, mucius scaevola, nietzsche, non, operations research, p.j. o'rourke, picking up big rocks, powerlifting, quantitative finance, quantum chaos, quantum dynamics, quantum information theory, r, relating anecdotes, retiring young, retro, rome, s-plus, sas, satan, shoepenhauer, giant squid, stochastic calculus, super-turing, the new criterion, theodore dalrymple, vadim borisovich, victor davis hanson, weight lifting, yukio mishima, zymurgy, Bokassa, Idi Amin, Park Chung Hee
I'd like to meet:
While I generally try to avoid meeting new people, I like people who break the molds; people of authentic intelligence, style, originality and vigorous dispositions.
Music:
I like industrial noise, classical, baroque, bagpipes (pibroch especially), taiko, Noh music, Gamelon music, street punk, oi, Shinto music, some favorite artists are, Boyd Rice, Zoviet France, Blitz, Caspar Broetzman, Death in June, Cramps, Arvo Part, Miklos Rosza, Sol Invictus, Sangre Cavallum, Mace, Nocturnal Emissions, Georgi Ligetti, Finntroll, Bolt Thrower, Slayer, Ramones, Pogues, Les Villains, Ramones, Dissecting Table, old ragtime and Benny Goodman, Motorhead, Johnny Cash, Blitz, Venom, Dropkick Murphy's, Anti-Nowhere League. I also like the bands in my 'friend' list, generally a lot.
Movies:
Committed to memory: Conan the Barbarian, Dr. Strangelove, Dangerous Liasons. This about sums up Brother Lupo.
Other fun movies in my recently watched list include:
Idi Amin Dada, I Claudius, Titus, Faust, the Land that Time Forgot (WW-1 kraut submarines and dinosaurs -what is not to love?), The Last Valley, Zulu, Come and See, the Wind and the Lion, the complete Jon Pertwee (Dr. Who), the first season of the Outer Limits
Books:
Moby Dick, Decameron, P. J. O'Rourke, H. L. Mencken, Goethe's Faust, Casanova's autobiography, Nietzsche, Baltasar Gracian, Schoepenhauer Xenophon's Anabasis, The Circus of Dr. Lao, Ernst Juenger's novels and autobiographical works, Steven Pressfield, Victor Davis Hanson, Bell's Mathematical Histories, Dinosaur Training, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Ortega y Gasset, Theodore Dalrymple, Ezra Pound, Plutarch, Wodehouse, Oliver Goldstone's history of Rome, Baltasar Gracian, anything by Sir John Julius Norwich, the official British history of the Great War
Heroes:
Gaita of Salerno, Galileo, Erwin Schroedinger, Richard Feynman, Ernst Juenger, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Teddy Roosevelt, Suhaila Siddiq, Belisarius, Julian the Apostate, Yukio Mishima, Benvenuto Cellini, Xenophon, Enrico Dandolo, Ernst Rudel, Herman Hanneken
