Music (especially Pearl Jam, A Perfect Circle, and Tool), Reading (especially ancient history, Greek and Roman), Philosophy, Texas Hold em', Sports (Phillies, Eagles, Sixers, Flyers, Rockies, and Knicks), Toy Soldiers, The Spartans.
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TOOL A PERFECT CIRCLE PEARL JAMPearl Jam, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, Eddie Vedder, Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, Mother Love Bone, Green River, Mad Season, Brad, Temple of the Dog, Alice in Chains, 10 Years, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, The Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan, Brad, Satchel, Stone Gossard, Malfunkshun, Fugazi, Tad, The Fastbacks, The Rockfords, Jack Irons, Wellwater Conspiracy, L7, Gruntruck, The Meat Puppets, Mookie Blaylock, Coheed and Cambria, Shabutie, The Prize Fighter Inferno, Rage Against the Machine, The Killers, Radiohead, Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros, Blind Melon, Uriah Heep, Rush, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Waits, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Polyphonic Spree, Weezer, Incubus, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Yes, Ashes Divide, Ours, 32 Leaves, The Sounds, Earshot, Under the Flood, A New Revolution, Hourcast, Marillion, Procul Harum, The Moody Blues, Supertramp, The Sex Pistols, Ben Harper, Iron Butterfly, The Ramones, The Replacements, The Smiths, Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, The Police, Genesis, Billy Joel, Jack Johnson, New Order, INXS, Bruce Springsteen and the E-street Band, The Strokes, Sparta, Mars Volta, At the Drive In, Deftones, Team Sleep, Audioslave, Gordon Lightfoot, Devo, The Stone Roses, Lacuna Coil, The Clash, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Jimi Hendrix, Deadboys, Serj Tankian, Van Der Graaf Generator, Dream Theater, Local H, Faith No More, The Cure, King Crimson, Robert Fripp, The Cars, The Doors, R.E.M., Chicago, Pantera, The Band, Queensryche, America, Rare Earth, Apocalptica, Styx, Spooky Tooth, Better Than Ezra, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Spock's Beard, Pink Floyd, Tears For Fears, Elton John, Blue Oyster Cult, Disturbed, INXS, Simple Minds, Smashing Pumpkins, Trivium, Kiss, U2, Violent Femmes, Tom Petty, Amiee Mann, Quiet Riot, Led Zeppelin, Camera Obscura, Hole, The Von Bondies, The Misfits, Steppenwolf, The New Pornographers, Babes in Toyland, Slayer, Postal Service, Annie Lennox, Ultravox, Joy Division, Velvet Underground, Depeche Mode, Lou Reed, Aztec Camera, Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, As I Lay Dying, John Cougar Mellancamp, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Janis Joplin, Queen, Interpol, Meshuggah, The Pippettes, Squeeze, Amiee Mann, Daniel Johnston, John Frusciante, Whitesnake, Dead Kennedys, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cranberries, Iced Earth, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Milla, Don Mclean, Sly and the Family Stone, The Buggles, Trivium, The Moody Blues, Frank Zappa, Bush, Phil Collins, Tracy Bonham, White Zombie, Deep Purple, Talking Heads, Days of the New, Slayer, Die Krupps, The Allman Brothers Band, Heart, Thrice, Sun Kil Moon, A Flock of Seagulls, Eurythmics, The Replicants, Gin Blossoms, REO Speedwagon, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Megadeth, Duran Duran, Motorhead, Primus, Sebodah, Bob Marley, Wolfmother, Army of Anyone, The Nightwatchman, Steely Dan, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Black Crowes, Skid Row, John Lennon, David Bowie, Soilwork, Joe Satriani, Lisa Germano, Sigur Ros, Kansas, The Damning Well, Alter Bridge, The Vines, Blind Guardian, Architecture in Helsinki, Steve Miller Band, Pat Benatar, Cat Stevens, Sly and the Family Stone, Poison, Dio, Meshuggah, Powerman 5000, Danzig, Staus Quo, Yo La Tengo, AC/DC, The Stylistics, The Yardbirds, Steely Dan, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Dandy Warhols, Social Distortion, Bad Brains, Sugarcult, Presidents of the United States of America, A-ha, Jerry Cantrell, The Pixies, The Kinks, Sarah McLachlan, Doobie Brothers, Iron Maiden, Soul Asylum, Gin Blossoms, Motley Crew, Hammerfall, Celtic Frost, Slipknot, Bad Religion, Collective Soul, Dave Matthews Band, Queens of the Stoneage, Spacehog, Beck, Opeth, Husker Du, The Postal Service, Love Battery, Ben Harper, Nena, System of a Down, Tantric, Filter, Veruca Salt, Split Enz, Blue Oyster Cult, Flying Burrito Brothers, The Byrds, Dashboard Confessional, Thin Lizzy, Bob Seger, Placebo, Cream, Rammstein, Alanis Morissette, Dire Straits, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Toadies, Garbage, The Charlie Daniels Band, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Eisregen, Buzzcocks, The English Panther, Fire Duece, 3, Dire Straits, Kings of Leon, Paul McCartney, Traffic, Dinosaur Jr., The Jesus Lizard, Twisted Sister, Belle and Sebastian, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Flag, Soft Cell, Oomph, Cat Stevens, Porcupine Tree, Blur, Godsmack, Jefferson Airplane, Einsturzende Nuebauten, The Mamas and the Papas, Joan Jett, Billy Idol, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Counting Crows, U2, Arctic Monkeys, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Butthole Surfers, Rancid, X, Deep Purple, X-Ray Spex, Live, KMFDM, Jethro Tull, Silverchair, Candlebox, White Lion, Modest MouseEvolutionOceansCorduroyGimme Some TruthMasters of WarOutshinedVicariousPet3 Libra's
The Gladiator, The 300, Troy, Alexander, Braveheart, The Patriot, First Knight, King Arthur, Apocalypto, Julius Caesar (2002), Pearl Harbor, The Da Vinci Code, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, National Treasure, Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, Into the Wild, Armegeddon, War of the Worlds, Sum of All Fears, Speed, Fahrenheit 9/11, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, X-Men, Spiderman 3, Meet the Parents, Rush Hour, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, The Waterboy, American Pie, Lethal Weapon 1,2, & 3, City Slickers, The Blair Witch Project 1, and 2, Saw, The Ring, Seven, Interview With The Vampire, Big Fish, Green Mile, Castaway, Forrest Gump, A Beautiful Mind
Decisive Battles, Barbarians, Histories Mysteries, Engineering an Empire, Decoding the Past, Ancient Discoveries, Investigating History, History's Turning Points, Lost Worlds, The Universe, Cosmos, Gazing Into Space, Planet Earth, The X-Files, Wonder Years, Quantum Leap, Seinfeld, Curve Your Enthusiasm, Harball With Chris Matthews, Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, Rome is Burning, Spongebob Squarepants
Works on the Spartans: Paul Cartledge (The Spartans, Spartan Reflections, Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 BC, Hellenistic and Roman Sparta), Stephen Hodkinson (Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta), Hodkinson and Anton Powell (Sparta: New Perspectives, Sparta and War, Sparta: Beyond the Mirage), Powell (The Shadow of Sparta), Ernle Bradford (Thermoplylae: The Battle For the West), Michael Whitby (Sparta), William G. Forrest (A History of Sparta 950-192 B.C.), Victor Davis Hanson (A War Like No Other), Plutarch (On Sparta), Pausanias (Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece), Xenophon ( A History of My Times), Thucydides (The History of the Peloponnesian War) **** Works on Ancient Greece and Rome: Livy (Histories of Rome), Polybius (The Rise of the Roman Empire, The Histories), Herotodus (The Histories), Victor Davis Hanson (Wars of the Ancient Greeks) John Keegan (Infantry Battle in Classical Greece), Thomas Martin (Ancient Greece), Paul Cartledge (The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great), R.A. Tomlinson (Argos and the Argolid), Homer (The Iliad, The Odyssey), B. H. Liddell Hart (Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napolean), Leonard Cottrell (Hannibal: Enemy of Rome), Alan Baker (The Gladiator: The Secret History of Rome's Warrior Slaves), Adrian Goldsworthy (Roman Warfare), Paul Roberts (A Pocket Dictionary of Roman Emperors), Julius Caesar (The Conquest of Gaul, The Civil War) **** Other Ancient History: Chester G. Starr (A History of the Ancient World), History of Ancient Egypt (Erik Hornung), Peter Berresford Elis (The Celts) etc etc **** Other History: Plantagenet Somerset Fry (Kings and Queens of England and Scotland), Maurice Keen (Medieval Europe), Allistair Horne (La Belle France) **** Greek and Roman Poems and Playrights: Virgil (The Aeneid), Ovid (Metamorphoses) Dante Alighieri (Dante's Inferno), Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays), Euripedes (The Complete greek Tragedies), Aristophanes (Four Comedies) **** Books about Nostradamus: Edgar Leoni (Nostradamus and His Prophecies, John Hogue (Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies, Nostradamus: The New Revelations), Peter Lemesurier (Nostradamus, The Unknown Nostradamus: 500th Anniversary Biography), David Ovason (The Secrets of Nostradamus, Nostradamus: Prophecies For America), Erika Cheetham (The Final Prophecies of Nostradamus) **** Fiction: Stephen Pressfield (Gates of Fire), John Steinbeck (Cannery Rowe)...anything by H.G. Wells, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons), and James Patterson (Roses are Red, Violets Are Blue, Four Blind Mice) Unkown (Beowulf) **** Philosophy: Aristotle (Politics, Rhetoric, Ethics), Plato (The Last Days of Socrates, Symposium, The Republic), Seneca (Letters From a Stoic), Plotinus (The Enneads), Euclid (Euclid's Elements), Cicero (Selected Works, On the Good Life, The Republic and the Laws), Marcus Aurelius (Meditations), Machiavelli (The Prince, Discourses, The Art of War), Sun-Tzu (The Art of War), Immanuel Kant (Practical Philosphy, Critique of Pure Reason), Karl Marx (The Marx-Engels Reader, Communist Manifesto), Rousseau (The Social Contract and Other Later Political Contracts), John Locke (The Works of John Locke: Volumes I and II), S. Mark Cohen (Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Thales to Aristotle), Paul Davies (The Mind of God) **** Other Topics: Carl Sagan (Cosmic Connection), Susan Strasser (Satisfaction Guaranteed), John C. Culver & John Hyde (American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace), Charles Bukowski (Tales of Ordinary Madness, Come On In), Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, & Henry Lincoln (Holy Blood Holy Grail, The Messianic Legacy)
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