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Making and listening to music, hanging out with friends having a good time, reading, collecting books (especially really old books of poetry), Snow skiing and water skiing, hiking, gaming out on my computer wasting precious time, making fine ales, gambling on poker hands (hold em), traveling (I hope to travel a lot this next year), getting my house done (hopefully also this next year).
I'm not that picky really. I like nice people better than nasty buggers. Usually I can tell if I like somebody within the first few minutes of meeting them, sometimes after one look in the eyes. But I'm trying to make fewer and fewer negative judgements about others, and just use what wisdom and discernment I possess to guide my own actions. I'd also like to meet my old rock idol, Chris Cornell, and maybe jam a little.
I pretty much constantly have music playing around me if at all possible. I'm pretty open-minded and there are no genres I don't like, though some music pisses me off, and I -AM- opinionated................................................. ..................................What I've Been Listening to Lately: Keane - Hopes and Fears, Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk, Fiona Apple - When the pawn, Citizen Cope, Elliot Smith, Deathcab For Cutie....................................................... ...................................Music I Love in General, or Used to worship and still respect:::: Radiohead, Blind Melon, Bob Marley, Soundgarden, Satchel, Brad, Sublime, Janis Joplin, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Jeff Buckley, David Gray, Tracy Chapman, Fleetwood Mac, Camp Kill Yourself, Hendrix, Floyd, Santana, Screaming Trees, Alice in Chains, Ani DiFranco, Portishead, Built to Spill, Jets to Brazil, Janes Addiction, The Notwist, The Tea Party, Otis Redding, Zeppelin, Sky Cries MAry, John Lennon and some Beattles, Tori Amos, Cream, Creedence, Billie Holliday, Black Sabbath, Sade, Shimshai, Coldplay, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crowe, Toots and the Maytals, Rusted Root, Air, Hooverphonic, Outkast, Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs, Jimmy Cliff, Leon Russell, Grateful Dead, Mother Love Bone, Sublime, Black Crowes, Morphine, Elliot Smith, Fiona Apple, Flowmotion, Dell the Funky Homosapien, Dr. Octagon, cool Underground rap like Gangstar, Metallica, Tool, System of a Down, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy, Robin Trower, Joss Stone, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, blues, jazz, rap, metal, folk.... OH AND MY BRO'S, Evan McDonell and his all-star band, Confidence, Guidance, and Rejoice, Dominique Vijarro in whatever guise he comes in, Ten Die (R.I.P.)**************************************************** I am still in love with Bjork, if you see her tell her to call me I am going crazy without her...
In no particular order: The Outlaw Josy Wales, O Brother Where Art Thou, Hudson Hawk!, The Princess Bride, Donnie Darko, Barfly, Army of Darkness, Young Frankenstein, the Austin Powers flicks, Jacob's Ladder, Deep Cover, Pirates of the Caribean, BLow, What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Fear and Loathing, Chocolat, Bennie and June, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, The Meaning of Life, the Life of Brian, The Search for the Holy Grail, Spun, Glory, The Green Mile, Little Big Man, The first MAtrix only, Dead ALive (I'm scarred), 12 Monkeys, Vanilla Sky, Fahrenheit 9/11, Manufacturing Consent, Clockwork Orange, Romeo is Bleeding, Once Upon a Time in MExico, the Last Samurai, Snatch, Lock stock and Two Smoking Barrells, the Lord of the Rings, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Groundhog Day (I'm in love with Andy MacDowell!), the Unforgiven, the Magnificent Seven, Big Trouble in Little China, the Ice Pirates, Ghostbusters, the Goonies, the Big Labowski, and of course Pooty Tang!!!!
I don't watch T.V. anymore except for football, but I still have a fond place in my heart for Seinfeld. I don't care much for vicarious living, commercials, poor fiction, trite sitcoms, the news. or any show glorifying the lawyer, doctor, special agent, or law enforcement occupations. That rules out almost all TV, doesn't it? I used to like South Park. The Chappelle Show is sometimes very funny, the Daily Show too, I like Comedy Central... not enough to want to pay monthly for it though...
Currently reading: Illusions by Richard Bach, The Baroque Cycle by Neil Stephenson (VERY good stuff). ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------- I have read more books and authors of books that have moved me than I could possibly list here or even recall. When I was younger I would read until dawn, and spend much of my free time reading. I am rooted in the English classics, because my grandparents and family would almost always give me books for christmas and birthdays, and I have a pretty extensive hardback collection of everythings from Hemingway to Poe, Dickens to Twain, Turgenev to Hesse, etc.-------------------------------------------------------- ------But I have read far more pages of fantasy and sci-fi. I loved the Lord of the Rings when I found it, and re-read it five or six times. I loved the Silmarillion especially. I was into Robert Jordan's books, but he's pissed me off. The Dark Tower by King was cool up until the last couple of books, then he pissed me off too. I'm addicted to George R.R. Martin, though he's a sick bloodthirsty soap-opera genius. Roger Delazny is one of my fav's, Lord of Light especially. Jack Vance, Frank Herbert, Ray Bradybury, Robert A. Heinlein, Stephen R. Donaldson, Orson Scott Card, Guy Gavriel Kay, etc. etc. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ My favorite author is Gene Wolfe. He is freakin amazing. The Book of the New Sun series, The book of the Short Sun, anything! READ HIM!
I don't really believe in heroes that much, in holding up a person on a pedestal and idolizing them. But I believe in heroic actions and ideas, and believe that in every moment of every day there is heroism being performed somewhere on this world. I'd pick my mother to be my hero if I had to choose though, she's saved the day for me more times than I can count... plus she taught me to count, which is cool. Anyone who lives life with complete honesty, freedom, and integrity is a hero. My goal is such.