Stuff I enjoy: Japanese anime, baseball (Go Rangers!), NASCAR (Go Tony Stewart!) and watching sports in general. I listen to lots of music (see below) and watch some movies and television. I read a lot these days, but my fianceé dwarfs me in overall reading speed. :)
I'd like to meet:
Various former United States Secretaries of State. Perhaps John Marshall, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William Jennings Bryan, Frank B. Kellogg and so on. Oh sure, they're all currently dead, but I don't want to let that stop me.
Who I wouldn't like to meet
Mostly former United States Secretaries of the Treasury, like Alexander J. Dallas, Salmon P. Chase or John G. Carlisle. Such dreadful bores those Treasury folks.
Oh, and former New York Governor Samuel J. Tilden.
Music:
I listen to just about everything.
Air, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, The Ataris, Beastie Boys, Beat Crusaders, Bering Strait, Better Than Ezra, Big & Rich, Blackalicious, The Blues Brothers, Blues Traveler, Cake, Chicane, Coheed & Cambria, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Daft Punk, Dashboard Confessional, Deltron 3030, DJ Danger Mouse, The Donnas, Elvis Presley, Everclear, Fall Out Boy, Feist, Fiona Apple, Franz Ferdinand, Gin Blossoms, Gnarls Barkley, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Guns N' Roses, Hikaru Utada, Idlewild, Jimmy Eat World, John Williams, Johnny Cash, Jurassic 5, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Machinae Supremacy, MC Frontalot, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Michael Giacchino, The Minibosses, Newsboys, Nirvana, North Mississippi Allstars, Ozomatli, the pillows, Porno Graffiti, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, Sheryl Crow, Smashing Pumpkins, Son Volt, Stone Temple Pilots, They Might Be Giants, Thomas Newman, U2, Van Halen, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Yellowcard, Yoko Kanno, Yuki Kajiura, Zero 7
...and much, much more. Can't list them all.
Movies:
I am waaaay too lazy to list them all here. Suffice it to say, I like lots of movies.
Television:
Current:
American Chopper, Bleach, Dirty Jobs, Family Guy, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Heroes, Lost, My Name Is Earl, MythBusters, Naruto (Japanese version only), The Office, Psych, Robot Chicken, Samurai Champloo, The Simpsons, The Venture Bros., plus anything that might be found on the History Channel or Discovery Channel or the Military Channel, or all those assorted channels where you might learn something.
All-time:
Alias, Cowboy Bebop, Firefly, Fullmetal Alchemist, Futurama, His and Her Circumstances, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Books:
Reading:
iWoz by Steve Wozniak
Recently Read:
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
The Zion Chronicles series by Bodie Thoene
In the "To Read" Pile:
Ester's Child by Jean Sasson
Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove
Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
Interface by Stephen Bury/Neal Stephenson
(Plus many more, this is just a sampling.)
Favorite Authors:
Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Dave Barry, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, C.S. Lewis, Neal Stephenson, Jules Verne
Heroes:
...is a really good show!
