art, bonsai, books, burning man, cats, contact juggling, confused lesbians, cyberpunk, dancing, electronic music, essays, ethics, euthanasia, exploding whales, fire, firedancing, firefetish, firestaff, firewhip, freemasonry, girls, go, human remains, law, macintosh laptops, martial arts, metasynth, monty python, motorcycles, nightlife, pdx, photography, physician assisted suicide, politics, portland, raves, research, ritual, science fiction, sharp objects, social justice, sparring, tea, whips, will, writing, zen.
Mostly, I use networking sites to keep up with existing flesh-and-blood friends -- for me at least, this is not a virtual popularity contest
However, I am always down to meet smart interesting people who can keep up their end of a conversation.
So, Feel free to message me, but if I don't know you, please don't send me a friend request without having ever communicated with me -- if you do you will be ignored. If you do know me and I have ignored your request, send me a message -- sometimes I can't tell who people are from their elaborate profile. If you send me a friend request and your profile is set to private, and I can't tell whether I know you from the picture you will be ignored. If you are lame, uninteresting, a poser, a sycophant, or someone looking for hookups and a ride on my coat tails you will be ignored. For that matter, I don't want to be your band's friend. And finally, if you have over 1000 friends you will probably be ignored. I feel no obligation to even be virtual friends with complete strangers, and these are my rules. Sorry kids.
Artists submitting art for consideration by Vorpal Space should send messages to the Vorpal Space profile, not my personal profile.
I guess this is where I list stuff I like... so in no particuluar order: Boards of Canada, Duke Ellington, John Cage [mostly for his theoretical perspectice], Aphex Twin, Fischerspooner, Autechre, Gescom, Front 242, Ladytron, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Beanfield, Telepopmusic, Stockhausen, Mr. Scruff, Ministry, adult, Merzbow, Portishead, Laibach, Spring Heel Jack, Infected Mushroom, Gregorian Chant, KMFDM, Bach, Astral Projection, Miss Kittin, Groove Salad on Soma FM
I see the occasional movie. As for favorites -- I like BladeRunner, Brazil, The Dark Crystal, A Clockwork Orange, anything directed by Orson Wells, [but especially Citizen Kane and A Touch of Evil], old Jet Lee and Jackie Chan, Peter Jackson's take on the Lord of the Rings was good. Hero is my favorite of the recent batch of Chinese wire-work flicks.
Television? That's the glowing thing that looks like an old computer mointor, right? It doesn't even have an internet connection. . . what possible use could it be?
Too many to list fully. Here are some authors: A.E. Waite, A.G. Mackey, Manley P. Hall, J. Swift, William Gibson, Neil Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, Philip K. Dick, Edward Gorey, Iain Banks, China Miéville, Sun Tzu
Hermes Trismegistus, Miyamoto Musashi, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Manly Hall, Arthur Edward Waite, Sun Tzu, Adam Weishaupt.