I have an exceptionally wide array of interests. I love to discuss everything from Shakespeare to quantum physics, from 'Scooby Doo' to architecture, from drinking games to theology. Maybe I should just list things I am into... that could work. OK, the ones I already named plus politics (I'm a moderate-to-liberal independent and a fiscal conservative - and boy, are those rare anymore), horseracing, lingerie, mythology, jurisprudence , 'The Rockford Files' (James Garner is the man), mixed drinks, Christianity, psychology, cartoons, ghosts, quality music... and not-so quality music, firefighting, cancer survivors, genetic engineering, sex , mashed potatoes (shout out for that to "Lauren" ), economics, Lemondheads candy, the American Revolution, pets, New Orleans, hot sauce , admiralty, relationships, Robert B. Parker novels, Novas, Famke Janssen , aircraft and flight (want my pilot's license one day), Cincinnati, prayer, pumpkin pie , excellent documentaries, ancient civilizations, Comedy Central shows, classic literature, Duke University , hot tubs, processed meats and cheeses, poker, Miami, Wile E. Coyote, ' Fable ', Ohio history, sociology, slot machines, Shawnee Smith (when you are dating someone that looks like her hotter sister, that just makes the world seem so much nicer - I wanted to write "tagging" but thought "dating" sounded classier), suits, quoting tv shows and movies and song lyrics and literature (the more random the better), Big Red pop, unique shirts, Dave & Buster's, the 'Final Fantasy' series (especially FF VII ), doing Four Horsemen shots, cuddling, Simpsons figures , languages, starry nights, 'Animal Crossing', inventions and inventing, kickball , goggles, bonfires, grammar, amusement parks, space heaters, chili, exotic dance, learning HTML, Charisma Carpenter , parapsychology, corn dogs, Marshie the Marshmallow , coins that look cool (even if not worth much), demographics, Blue Dawgs (best drink... EVER), metabolism, pop culture, roller coasters, hot wings , trivia, Las Vegas, trashy.com , history, volunteerism, Egyptology, video games, plays, the Adult Swim cartoons on Cartoon Network, 'The Sims', Eliza Dushku , caesar salad, 'Arcanum', crypto-zoology, French onion soup, art, photography, malt liquor, interior design, 'The Simpsons', satire, dill pickle-flavored potato chips , writing with good pens that make you feel like you have this perfect 'flow' going and all your ideas are completely translating to the page (almost better than sex... OK, so not really, but still a damn good feeling), the Gallop Racer series, Wayne Manor , Reuben sandwiches, batting cages, Jigglypuff , any 'Civilization' game, Taco Bell (even when I haven't been drinking), collecting more jackets and coats than I need, Jessica Simpson , antipasto salad, vinyl , 'The West Wing', following the adventures of Hack Barnstormer , Trik Nasty , Arrowhead , Ghost , and all of their superhero compadres , movie theater popcorn swimming in that fake butter stuff found only at the movies, Voo Doo , cheesecake, neuro-science, the 'Suikoden' series, dope-looking ties, my James Bond-esque cars (my Mazda and Shell's Nissan), beer (cheap is great, but lately I have been really into Harp beer , urban legends, being a "man of fashion", time travel, my kickass parents, working out at the Y, eating at 'the Y', my dope Toshiba laptop , Napster, any video game that lets you create your own characters and design how they look, soups, saying the words "populace" and "ampersand", On Demand TV, this hat , camping (but I don't use a tent - I throw a sleeping bag down on the ground and sleep in the open air), rum, webcam, monkeys, fez hats, monkeys in fez hats, Skee-Ball, antiques, Stacy Keibler (she is a wrestling chick and I don't watch wrestling, unless it is my boy, Trik Nasty , but she used to be called Miss Hancock... and she is smoking hot), cashews, Cuban sandwiches, slang, masturbation, milk, Teen Girl Squad , legal research, steaks, carving jack-o-lanterns , exposing UNC as the work of The Devil, crab legs, admiring Big Boy, chai tea, Cletus and much, much, much, much, much more... Oh yeah, I can't forget these interests too...
I guess they are all the same interest though.
I'd like to meet:
Supermodels with real bodies that have PhD's in a social science and in an engineering field that make 7 figures a year and own their own breweries. Oh, and that have weekly lingerie parties with their supermodel and starlet friends. Oh, wait… I already met someone light years better than that. In that case I guess I would just like to meet anyone fun, friendly, and interesting. If you are well-read (i.e. don’t have ‘The Da Vinci Code’ listed among your favorite books) it is a plus.
Music:
I am all over the place when it comes to music. I enjoy a wide variety and have a little bit of everything in my download list. Just some of the artists I enjoy include Maroon 5, Norah Jones, NWA, Cake, Incubus, Pet Shop Boys, Bob Marley, Tupac , Edie Brickell, mc chris , Bare Naked Ladies, The Pharcyde , Black Sheep, The Clash, Beethoven, Kare Bear Mafia (funny as hell and representin' for all us geeks out here), BB King, Hank Sr., Hank Jr., Mya, Prince, Willie Nelson, Liz Phair, Duran Duran, Jay-Z, Sublime, Blur, Coldplay, Bach, Fleetwood Mac, The Bloodhound Gang, whatever DJ Ghost Truck or DJ Pink Slip are spinning, Jimmy Buffet, Lloyd Banks, The Game, Mozart, Spin Doctors, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Moody Blues, Miles Davis, Basement Jaxx, Cat Stevens, Tom Petty, Kasey Chambers, Frank Sinatra, Tribe Called Quest, Merle Haggard, ClubFM (internet radio station that plays some of the best dance, trance, and remixes around), Beastie Boys, Sade, Disturbed, Lynard Skynard, De La Soul, Archie Bell and the Drells, KC and the Sunshine Band, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Rage Against The Machine, Massive Attack, Run DMC, Enigma, Patsy Cline, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, A2 (go hear their stuff NOW!), Digital Underground, Huey Lewis and the News, Alice Cooper, NIN, Puddle of Mudd, Saliva, 3 Doors Down, Biggie, DMB (when Dave is not being obscurely pseudo-philosophical for the sake of being obscurely pseudo-philosophical), Ingrid, Staind, General Stacks (a kick ass band full of kick ass chicks, and a very good friend of mine - so go listen to their shit right now!), System of a Down, Live, Jason Mraz, Weezer, Nerf Herder, Proclaimers, Indigo Girls, Bush, Fydolla Ho (Shawnee Smith's band... see above), Smash Mouth, LL Cool J, Billy Joel, N.E.R.D., Snow (that dude kicked ass - admit it!), The Smiths, Fugazi, Jane's Addiction, Junior Senior, 311, Snoop, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wagner, John Williams, Hendrix, The Doors, Kid Rock (when he was making white trash rap and not recording the lame 70s rehash shit he is making now), CCR, Dwight Yokam, kd lang, REM, The Rubber Maids (hustle over and take a listen, PRONTO!), The Police, Depeche Mode, Motley Crue, Lil Kim, The Eagles, Tenacious D, Santana, Rob Zombie, R Kelly, STP, Color Me Badd (don't laugh, I will find you), Vivaldi, Arlo Guthrie, Aerosmith, Widespread Panic, Morris Day and the Time , Dixie Chicks, Soul Coughing, Kanye West, Counting Crows, Sting, Mary Chapin Carpenter, John Mayer, Shelley when she is driving on a highway, KRS-1, Dirty Vegas, AC/DC, Wallflowers, Dire Straits, Methods of Mayhem, Bruce Hornsby, Lords of Acid, ABBA, Paul Oakenfold, Gin Blossoms, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, Jack O'Pearce, Matchbox 20, Goo Goo Dolls, Stevie Wonder, Little T and One Track Mike, Bionic Jive, Snow Dogs, Easy E, Was Not Was, Mitch Rider & The Detroit Wheels , DMX, Red Sovine, Usher, Black Crows, Marvin Gaye, Erykah Badu, The Kinks, Elvis, Seven Mary Three, Moby, Godsmack, Randy Newman, Bubba Sparxxx, Temptations, Kilo (just for 'White Horse' alone - quite possibly the greatest song in the history of music), Neil Diamond, Changing Faces, Linkin Park, ICP, Cowboy Mouth, Wayne Newton, Sophie B. Hawkins, Devinyls ('I Touch Myself' is one of the coolest songs of all time), Soul Casket, Twiztd, New Radicals, Van Halen, Sarah McLachlan, Tears for Fears, Fatboy Slim, Offspring, Rappy McRapperson (his lyrics will change your life), Everlast, Public Enemy, Danny Elfman, Cypress Hill, Nellie, Glenn Miller, The Beatles, John Coltrane, Cheap Trick, Wings, Jet, When In Rome, James, Tears For Fears, XTC, Shinedown, Stereo MCs, Siouxsie and The Banshees, PM Dawn, Nickelback (but not that craptastic song 'Photograph' or really any of their slow shit), Hot Action Cop, and the Boston Pops.
Movies:
Once again, no real rhyme or reason to what movies I like... but, here is a very small list of some favorites: Office Space , Ocean's 11 and 13 (12 sucked), Roger and Me, Jaws, X-Men (1 and 2), Pharlap , The Untouchables, Rounders, Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, High Fidelity, Bowling for Columbine, Saving Private Ryan, Se7en, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Snatch, Made, The Frighteners, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, Glory, Breakfast Club, A Few Good Men, Shawshank Redemption, Ghostbusters, Superbad , Lifetime movies that suck me in on weekends (especially ones that have an after-school special quality to them), Deadman on Campus, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Best of Times, The Boxer, JFK, Casey's Shadow, The Big Lebowski, Field of Dreams, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, anything with Christy Canyon or Victoria Del Rio in it, One Crazy Summer, Silent Fall, Jade, The Last Boyscout, The Sandlot, O Brother Where Art Thou, Cast A Deadly Spell (Fred Ward as H.P. Lovecraft as a noir PI in 1940s LA with magic and gangsters - heck yeah!), The Goonies, Bad Boys 1... and 2, I admit it, Swingers , The Rainmaker, Evil Dead 1 and 2 and Army of Darkness, El Diablo, My Fellow Americans, Lord of the G-Strings , Bull Durham, Let It Ride, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Silverado, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Fahrenheit 9/11, The New Guy, Batman Forever, Transformers, The French Connection, House on Haunted Hill, The Ghost and the Darkness, Princess Bride, Cruel Intentions (for the painfully obvious reasons), Hoosiers, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Gettysburg, Empire Records, Borat, The Great Escape, the Harry Potter movies, Dave, American Splendor, Supersize Me, We Are... Marshall , Wedding Crashers, Dawn of the Dead (the remake), The 40-Year-Old Virgin , Saw I, Saw II (I predicted the twist ending just from the commercial, but I have a thing for Shawnee Smith - see above), Saw III, Waiting, The Eulogy, One Crazy Summer, Knocked Up , Grandma's Boy, Hot Fuzz (amazingly good), Dodgeball, and to sound classy - Satan's Cheerleaders .
Television:
Hey, I know... why don't I just list a bunch of things in this slot too? Here are some of my favorite shows, in no particular order: The Simpsons, The West Wing, CSI (the original - although Miami is cool too), Aqua Teen Hunger Force , The Chapelle Show, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Family Guy, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Press Your Luck (No Whammies! No Whammies! Big Money... STOP!), The Daily Show, What Not To Wear, X-Play , Meet the Press, Frasier, The Rockford Files, Hogan's Heroes, Reno 911, Wile E. Coyote cartoons, Insomniac, Moonlighting (kickass show, and not just because my wife and I lived it early in our courtship process, without the PI work), MST3K, Dragnet, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Real Time with Bill Maher, Celebrity Poker, Angel (Charisma Carpenter's in it, and Eliza Dushku guest-stars? I'm down), Mission Hill, Hack, Monk, Malcolm in the Middle, Arthur, Leave it to Beaver, almost any of the countdown or montage shows on VH1 - particularly Best Week Ever, My Name Is Earl , The Late Show with David Letterman, Lucky (thanks for taking it off the air F/X - you suck!), Two and a Half Men, Night Court , The Andy Griffith Show, Quantum Leap, Scooby Doo, The Drew Carrey Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Buffy (seasons 1-3, and maybe 4... but I watch them all), Venture Brothers, Scrubs, Strangers with Candy, Dexter, Cathouse, The Boondocks, Robot Chicken, the To Catch a Predator Dateline/NBC specials, The Tick, Chain Reaction (I loved that game show when I was a kid, so thank you to The Game Show Network for bringing it back), Frisky Dingo, Carpoolers (my new favorite show), and a whole bunch of others...
Books:
Let me just stick with the trend and list a bunch of stuff on here too... The Bible , 'Hamlet', 'Fast Food Nation', 'Fingerprints of the Gods' (really makes you think about ancient civilizations, Ice Ages, and a whole lot more), 'Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them' (now that's research), any Robert B. Parker 'Spenser' book, 'Secretariat: Making of a Champion' , 'Merchant of Venice', M.R. James' short stories about ghosts, 'Haunted Heartland', 'A Time to Kill', 'The Rainmaker' , 'Homestretch', the Harry Potter books, Game Informer magazine (the greatest game mag ever), 'Weapons of Mass Distraction', 'Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot', 'Race Matters' (Cornell West is brilliant), 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' (have a soft spot for Ichabod Crane), almost all Michael Crichton novels, 'Wealth of Nations', 'Seabiscuit', the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the entire run of Nomad comics, each and every book or story I write, 'The Baron of Beacon Hill' (about my namesake and uncle from way back), 'Plain English for Lawyers', 'On the Road', 'Asher Lev', the writings of Frederick Douglas, 'To Kill A Mockingbird', Hans Holzer's parapsychology books, the Daily Racing Form, 'What's the Matter with Kansas?', 'The Exporting of America', 'The Truth - with Jokes', the new Booster Gold series of comics, 'Dumbing Down', 'John Hancock: Patriot and Merchant King' (another book about my kick ass ancestor), 'American Theocracy', '52', Midnighter, and anything that grabs my attention.
Heroes:
Jesus - whether you believe in Him or not, He had some great ideas... forgiveness, love, treat others like you would want to be treated, non-violence, and He was willing to die for a cause. Gotta respect all of those things. My mom - she has been through so much in her life and she never quits and she always has a kind word or a good deed ready to go... plus she kicked breast cancer's ass back in the day when that meant a quick death. My dad - he hasn't always been the easiest guy to get along with, but he knows what he believes in and he never forgets who he loves, and he would do anything to take care of those people and beliefs. He was a firefighter too, so that adds to the heroic nature. Some others I look up to are Tecumseh, Rosa Parks, and the original John Hancock. Oh, and Secretariat. So what he is a horse? I relate to him. Sheri is my Myspace Hero. She taught me how to do all this tricked-out HTML stuff on here and, more importantly, she taught me to never stop chasing my Myspace dreams (and now Dane Cook is among my Myspace friends). Shanah begat Sheri's HTML skills and Sheri begat mine, so (as Shanah pointed out) Shanah is one of my Myspace Heroes too. Big Boy has always been my hero... but that dude is everybody's hero, duh. Plus, Jack Monroe (if any woman knows who he is - I already love you). Oh, and Man-Thing and Shelley's and my son, Booster Gold.
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Above see a picture of 4 of my heroes: Sheri, Big Boy, Shanah, and Jesus (Jesus is present in the "God is everywhere" kind of way).
