Reading, Violin, Piano, Mandolin, Anime, Music, Ballrom Dancing, Tango, Swing Dancing, Salsa Dancing, Bike Riding, Hiking, Renissance Faires, History, Historical Re-Inactment, Dickens Faire, Camping, Burning Man, Swimming, Rainy days, Rainy nights listening to the pitter patter on my roof as I lay in bed with my books, Beaches, Fog, Fireplaces, Dogs, Teaching, Ask me if you really want to know them all
I'd like to meet:
Human or other, words and meaning, living preferably.
Music:
36 Crazyfists, A Perfect Circle, A.F.I., Adema, Aerosmith, Agent Provocateur, Alanis Morissette, Alkaline Trio, All-American Rejects, Altan, American Hi-Fi, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Assemblage 23, Atomship, Bad Religion, Balligomingo, Bare Naked Ladies, Basil Poledouris, Bauhaus, Beck, Beethoven, Bel Canto, Better than Ezra, Blink 182, Blur, Bond, Bow Wow Wow, Butterfly Effect, Cause & Effect, Changelings, Chantal Kreviazuk, Chevelle, Circus Contraption, cKy, Clannad, Cold, Coldplay, Cradle of Filth, Crazy Town, Danny Elfman, David Draiman, Demon Hunter, Depeche Mode, Devildriver, Disturbed, DJ Dragon, Dolce Triade, Drain STH, Dropkick Murphys, Drowning Pool, E.S. Posthumus, Earshot, Edera, Element Eighty, Evanescence, Eve 6, Everclear, Everlast, Finger Eleven, Godsmack, Gotan Project, Grace Kelly, Greenday, Guster, Hans Zimmer, Hayley Westenra, Hoobastank, Howard Shore, Ichiko Hashimoto, Ill Niño, In Flames, Incubus, Iris, Jason Hayes, Jem, JET, Jimmy Eat World, Joseph LoDuca, Judgement Day, Judgement of Paris, Judith, Kermit the Frog, Klaus Badelt, KoRn, Kylie Minogue, Kyu Sakimoto, La Bottinee Souriante, Lacuna Coil, Linkin Park, Lost Prophets, Lsu, Lycia, Machine In The Garden, Madredeus, Marilyn Manson, Maroon 5, Massive Attack, MC Chris, Meat Beat Manifesto, Mecano, Mesh, Metallica, Modest Mouse, My Chemical Romance, Natasha Atlas, Neuroactive, Neurotic Fish, Nickelback, Nine Inch Nails, Nobuo Uematsu, Nordman, O-Zone, Oasis, Offspring, Oingo Boingo, Overseer, P.O.D., Papa Roach, Paul Oakenfold, Poe, Primitive Radio Gods, Puddle Of Mudd, Queens Of The Stone Age, R.E.M., Rage Against The Machine, Raif, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Roger Fracé and Summer Bowman, Rufus Wainwright, Saliva, Santana, Seether, Sheryl Crow, Shinedown, Shroud, Silverchair, Skinny Puppy, Slipknot, Sneaker Pimps, Snow Patrol, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Staind, Static X, Stereomud, Stoa, Stone Sour, Strictly Ballroom, Sublime, Sum 41, Sunshine Blind, Susanne Vega, System of a Down, Taking Back Sunday, Taku Iwasaki, Tantric, The Beatles, The Black Mages, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Crystal Method, The Crüxshadows, The Cure, The Doors, The Faint, The Icarus Line, The Last Dance, The Presidents Of The United States Of America, The Smashing Pumpkins, They Might Be Giants, Three Days Grace, Thrice, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Tool, Tori Amos, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Trapt, Twelve Stones, Type O Negative, Union Underground, Unloco, Vas, Velvet Acid Christ, Vienna Teng, VNV Nation, White Town, Yellowcard
Movies:
The Last Samurai, The Cound of Monte Cristo, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Returner, The Princess Blade, The Princess Bride, Enemy at the Gates, Equilibrium, Crouching Tiger-Hidden Dragon, Howl's Moving Castle, Serenity, The Matrix, Stage Beauty, Batman Begins, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, The Replacement Killers, Nightmare Before Christmas, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Crucible, Donnie Darko, Magnolia, The Big Lebowski, High Fidelity, Army of Darkness, Pulp Fiction, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Labyrinth, Amelie, Memento, Fight Club, Brazil, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine, Star Wars (Empire Strikes Back is my fav), Lord of the Rings, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Incredibles, Death to Smoochy, American Beauty, Scottland PA, Kill Bill, A Clockwork Orange, Clerks, Mallrats, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Dogma, Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Man on Fire, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Illusionist, Transformers
Television:
Firefly, Carnivale, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Babylon 5, Eureka, The Dresden Files, Dr. Who, Painkiller Jane, Section 2, Six Feet Under, Last Exile, Hellsing, Witch Hunter Robin (What? They're TV shows in Japan)
Books:
Steven Brust, David Eddings, L.E. Modesitt jr., Robert Asprin, Sara Douglass, Curt Benjaminn, Laurell K. Hamilton, Clive Cussler, David B. Coe, Robert Jordan, J.K. Rowling, Terry Goodkind, John Marco, Stephen King, Timothy Zahn, Micheal A. Stackpole, Nick Sagan, S.L. Farrel, Chelsea QUinn Yarbro, Mary Stewart, John C. Wright, Greg Bear, Greg Keyes, David Drake, Harry Turtledove, Brain Daley, Robin Hobb, Hunter S. Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Ronald Dahl, William Shakespeare, Lord Alfred Tennyson, T.S. Elliot, Henry David Thoreau, Rudeyard Kipling, Douglas Adams, Edward Gorey, Terry Pratchett, J.R.R. Tolkien, George Orwel, Edgar Alan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Susanne Clarke, Orson Scott Card, Frank Herbert, David Farland, Mercedes Lackey, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Fred Saberhagen, Lemony Snicket, Aaron Allston, Takashi Matsuoka, Brian Jacques, James D. MacDonald, Sarah Ash, David Weber, Bernard Cornwell, Craig Shaw Gardner, Charles Dickens, C.S. Foreseter, Jennifer Robinson, C.J. CHerryh, Lois Lowry, C.S. Friendman, Anne Bishop, Stephen Chambers, Melanie Rawn, Kim Harrison, Alexandre Dumas, Anselm Audlrey, Robert Luis Stevenson, Jaqueline Carey, Lian Hearn, George R.R. Martin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Newcomb, Kelley Armstrong, Jane Linkskold, Kate Elliot, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelly, Tad Williams, Neil Gaiman, Ian MacDonald, and maaany many more that I can't see or think of off hand.
Heroes:
Optimus Prime, Megatron (Contradiction I know, but they both have qualities to admire. Good and Evil really has no influence in my admiration, Edmond Dantes, Miyamoto Musashi, Jack Skellington, Ralph Waldo Emmerson, and no, I rarely take heroes or villians seriously, I look to myself for guidance, it rarely steers me wrong.
