Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Theology, Theologies, New York City, Brooklyn, History, Law, Linguistics, Travel, Spanish, Italian, Restaurants, Broadway, Architecture, Art, Museums, Parks, Film, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, US News and World Report, National Review, Time, The New Yorker, Philosophy Mag., Writing, and much much more!
People. I love all people. I want to meet people who have something to say. People who have a new perspective to offer. I want to meet someone who is bottled up and awaiting the day someone can shatter their glass encasement so they can breathe in epistemic delight.
I want to meet people with life, with voracity, with hunger for their passion.
Lives are all stories. Those stories are incomplete until the last breath has been exasperated, even then, the completed story would live on. Humanity has a fabric that is both fragile and tenacious. Diverse and united. The common denominator of the human experience is in the living of life; the disparity comes in the experiences themselves. As a lover of language I love to meet people who speak obscure tongues. I love to meet those who use different rituals to worship the divine. I love to encounter new tastes that remind everyone of their roots. I could go on for days!
Ideally, I would love to meet everyone and hear their story. But that is impossible. I'd hate to limit myself, so I'll put it briefly: I'd Like to Meet anyone Who Meets Me.
All kinds of music. Lately It's been Josh Groban, Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, Mario Frangoulis, Juan Luis Guerra, 3 Doors Down, Maroon 5, Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Hoobastank, Avril Lavigne, Switchfoot, Ryan Cabrera, Enigma, Outkast, Charlotte Church, Eminem, Britney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Williams and everything else that sounds good!
"The Matrix" Not because of the action, but because of the content. "The Hours," "The Others," "Stepford Wives," and everything else with Nicole Kidman. "Forrest Gump," "Road To Perdition," "Saving Private Ryan" and everything else with Tom Hanks. "Chocolat," "Amélie," "Y Tú Mamá También," "El Crimen del Padre Amaro," "City of God," and most other Independent Films. I don't like much of what Hollywood produces these days. Just because there are flashing colors, hearthrob heroes, action-packed stupidity doesn't make me want to see it. There must be content. After all that is the difference between movies and film. I watch Films not movies.
I don't have much time to watch TV. When I do it's whatever is on. The channels I usually watch are FOX, CNN, Discovery, TLC, History, HBO, Showtime etc... Basically: Comedy, News, and Documentaries; that's what I use the TV for.
I own approx. 1,000 books, it would be insane for me to list them all. Perhaps genre would be more effective: Fiction, Historical, Linguistics, Philosophy, Theology, Poetry and Politics. That pretty much covers it all.
Yeshua Bin Yosef, Socrates, Plato, Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelly Alvarez, Thomas Brosnan, Patrick Longalong, Laurence Cassidy, Colin Powell, Condileeza Rice, Abe Lincoln, Yluminada Corona and ultimately Elochim.