I enjoy most everything. I love music, but I'm no fan of rap or hip hop. I'm at heart a fighter, and have studied several forms of martial arts. Not Tae Kwon Do, don't ask. I love to sail, but need to get my own boat now, hehe. I like to draw, read, shoot, ski, play games, go off roading.... but I need to fix up the jeep I just bought. There's hardly a thing I won't try once. I'm that sort of person. I may embarass easy, but you can be damn sure I'll be upfront when volunteers are called for.
I'd like to meet:
I want to meet a thinker, a warrior, a teacher, a pirate, a politician, a firefighter, a police officer, an artist, one full of hope and love, and one who has lost everything. We're 6 handshakes away from everyone, I want to narrow that gap a little.
Music:
I'm actually quite a country fan. there's no better music to drink to. But I'll listen to nearly anything, from classical and opera to some heavy metal and grunge. My happy place is more in the middle with rock, old school and acid rock, country and western, and a sprinkling of pop because not all of it's bad.
Movies:
I like movies that are good, but I love movies people have fun making. Like I love Jurassic Park. It's a good solid movie, with some of the best cg ever on screen. And I absolutely adore Shawn of the Dead. Not only is it a zombie flick, but they obviously had a good time making it. Watch it, you'll see what I mean. I like a lot of horror, some sci fi, there's hardly a movie I don't like, but it's become difficult for me to watch them peacefully. I've learned too much I sometimes get caught on the technical aspect of things to easily.
Television:
Give me cartoons! hehe, cartoons and anime are so much more rewarding to me then stuff like survivor. I want a defined antogonist, not some obsesive compulsive detective. I want to see the clash of good and evil, not the latest installment of Cribs. I want to be entertained, but not by the scripted reality America has become obsessed over.
Books:
Perhaps my favorite book next to Dr. Suess' Yurtle the Turtle, is the Great Gatsby. If you've read it, you may understand what I mean. It had my absolute favorite line in any form of media, "That orgastic future that year by year recedes before us, it eludes us, but no matter. Tomorrow we'll run a little faster, stretch our arms a little further_ and one fine day. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back into the past." It's a great story. Another of my favorites is The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy. Anyone who's read it, and knows the babblefish blurb knows what I mean. Douglas Adams was a genious.
Heroes:
Heroes are a hard thing to find in this day and age. My heroes are the people who haven't lost hope. Those that plug along everyday. The man who gives up his dreams to bring home a paycheck to his family, the firefighter who rushes into a burning building, the PSE&G guy working out there in the dead of winter with snow falling all around, the marine in Takrit. Heroes to me, are the men, women and children of this world who do what needs to be done. Not the woman in Camden with a family of 12 waiting on a welfare check, not the emaciated man in Djibouti waiting on the shipment of Kjat, and hardly those with a silver spoon. Those who get up and go through the day knowing it's what they have to do. Those are heroes. But my idols are those that break away from that, and sieze what they're after in this life.
