FreeBSD, knives, swords, guns and other weaponry, travel, reading, foreign cultures & customs, language and expression, libertarian ideals, tetris, german shepherds, schutzhund, spirituality, history, ballet, the hidden or forbidden, qabalah, tarot, honest exploration of the self, outdoorsy activities, cooking, sewing, quilting, dancing, singing, painting and art of all sorts, community supported agriculture, heirloom gardening, birding, and having afternoon tea.
500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
People who want to leave the world a little better than they found it. Those who have retained their sense of wonder and a thirst for knowledge. Those whom I have lost along the way and would love to encounter again. :-)
"How soon we forget history... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -- George Washington
KNOWING IS NOT ENOUGH; WE MUST APPLY. WILLING IS NOT ENOUGH; WE MUST DO. ---GOETHE
pink floyd, led zeppelin, rammstein, anna netrebko, various classical, libera, loreena mckennit, hooverphonic, massive attack, golden palominos, type o negative, elis regina, rita lee, jeff buckley, in-grid, bjork, lamb, sneaker pimps, enigma, portishead, NIN, the carpenters, beatles, guns n roses, dead can dance, swing/big band, blues, dixieland jazz, zydeco, white zombie, duran duran, oakenfold, sarah mclachlan, adriana calcanhoto, banda eva, musica popular brasileira, poets of the fall, george strait, tim mcgraw, garth brooks, nickel creek, miranda lambert, alison krauss, emma christian, the clancy brothers, linda eder, etc.
microcosmos, amadeus, the wall, the red violin, donnie darko, pi, the godfather, the neverending story, lotr, the emerald forest, antonia's line, willow, gladiator, run lola run, the eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, meet joe black, the nightmare before christmas, songcatcher
The Discovery and Travel Channels. I am also a complete ADDICT of the Food Network. And........... Battlestar Galactica. Ugh. I'm such a nerd.
Most everything Dean Koontz, The DaVinci Code, Harry Potter series, various fiction/fantasy, LOTR of course, The Giving Tree, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, The Vampire Lestat, Stumbling Toward Enlightenment, My Life With the Spirits, So You Want to be a Wizard, The Changeover, Goodnight Moon, The Belgariad & Malloreon, Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet (thank you, Sam), The Mystical Qabalah, Being Peace, The Unix Philosophy, How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, Atlas Shrugged, TCP/IP Illustrated, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, The Alchemist, The Valkyries
People who are thoroughly honest, uncompromisingly idealistic, and those who still believe in honor and personal responsibility. And my uncle Dan McGuire, who was one of the most interesting people I've ever known.