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Spending time with my wife Jennifer (Gigi), hiking, music, writing, books, vegetarian cooking, theology, cats, antiques, hockey, Bushmills, Guinness, Southern folk pottery and art, and the art of Terry Turrell, Rev. Howard Finster, and Toulouse-Lautrec.
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Kierkegaard
"The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange." - GK Chesterton
"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. "
-Thomas Merton
"You do not need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even listen, simply wait,
be quiet, still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked,
it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."—Franz Kafka
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought." - Emily Dickinson
REM, Chet Baker, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, The Smiths, Django, Velvet Underground, Mindy Smith, Otis Redding, New York Dolls, Chatham County Line, Wilco, Neutral Milk Hotel, Leonard Cohen, Dropkick Murphys, Willie Nelson, Curtis Mayfield, The Decemberists, Azure Ray, David Bowie, Grateful Dead, Coldplay, Tilly and the Wall, Arcade Fire,Miles Davis, Galaxie 500, The Cure, Nickel Creek, Paris Combo, Sly & the Family Stone, the Allman Brothers, Black Sabbath, Pulp, Old Crow Medicine Show, Hank Sr., Leigh Nash, Massive Attack, Cash/Carter, David Gray, Love & Rockets, the Catholic Latin classics and much more.
I prefer the classics: Bringing Up Baby, Breakfast at Tiffany's, To Kill a Mockingbird and African Queen are the absolute favorites. More recent films: You Can Count on Me, Miss Potter, Pieces of April, Beautiful Girls, In America, Heavenly Creatures, River's Edge, Bend it like Beckham, Pan's Labyrinth, and the Straight Story. I'll watch anything over 2 1/2 hours as long as it isn't cinema verite, which gives me a headache.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and Angel are my all-time favorites....The Buffyverse is my Star Trek. I like Battlestar Galactica, 30 Rock, Gossip Girl, and Heroes a whole lot as well.
All-time favorite: Voltaire's "Candide," which just seems to be perfect in every way.
Others: The Tao Te Ching, Thomas Merton, Jon Krakauer, Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor, Tony Horwitz, Chuck Klosterman, Sarah Vowell, Philip Gourevitch, Truman Capote, G.K. Chesterton, Nick Hornby, Harper Lee, Howard Bahr, Byron Herbert Reece, and Paul Hemphill to name a few.
Atticus Finch