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Are there any more fascinating
souls than those with whom I am already acquainted? Perhaps, but we live what we know. It is for us, then, only to increase our knowledge: and the rest will follow.
Burl Ives, Bing Crosby, Gene Autry, The Kingston Trio, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Yardbirds, The Animals, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Richard Thompson, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, The Albion Band, Renaissance, Sandy Denny, John Fahey, John Lee Hooker, Mississippi John Hurt, Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson, Alan Lomax (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings), Woody Guthrie, The Weavers, Pete Seeger, The Chieftans, The Dubliners, Altan, Nordic Traditional, Tuvan, Native American, Indian, Phillip Glass, Vangelis, Max Steiner, Akira Ifukube, Basil Poledouris, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Cliff Eidelman, Enigma, Tori Amos, Natalie Merchant, Mazzy Star, Kristin Hersh, Miranda Sex Garden, Jocelyn Montgomery, Liz Knowles, Kraftwerk, Mike Oldfield, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Mamas & The Papas, Jim Croce, Harry Chapin, Don McLean, Simon and Garfunkel, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Cream, Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath
Intolerance, The Birth of a Nation, Wings, The Seventh Seal, Sunset Boulevard, Song of the South, The Testament of Orpheus, The Lost World, Things to Come, Fantastic Planet, Logan's Run, Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes (1968), THX-1138, The Quiet Earth, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, Apocalypse Now, Schindler's List, The Patriot, Gods and Generals, The Thin Red Line, We Were Soldiers, Nixon, Sophie's Choice, American Beauty, Big Fish, The Seven Samurai, Gojira (1954), Gigantis: The Fire Monster, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner), Aguirre, Conan the Barbarian, Time Bandits, Willow, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Harry Potter, What Dreams May Come, Life is Beautiful, 1984, The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
20/20, Primetime Live, Frontline, Antique Roadshow, Nova, Faerie Tale Theatre, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Brother Cadfael Mysteries, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9), Highlander: The Series, Xena: Warrior Princess, Charmed, The Simpsons, South Park, Wonderfalls, Boston Legal
Sagas of the Icelanders (Trad.), Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse), Either/Or (Kierkegaard), The Prophet (Gibran), The Book of Hours (Rilke), Leaves of Grass (Whitman), The Bell Jar (Plath), The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner), For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), Beowulf (Heaney Translation), The Language Instinct (Pinker), The Life of the Cosmos (Smolin), Founding Brothers (Ellis), Leviathan (Auster), The Doors of Perception (Huxley), 1984 (Orwell), Immortality (Kundera), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Greenberg), The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (Cuppy), Strangers From the Sky (Bonanno), Splinter of the Mind's Eye (Foster), The Sentinel (Clarke), The Silmarillion (Tolkien), The Foundation Series (Asimov), Weird Works of Robert E. Howard (Short Stories)
The Venerable Bede (Early English Historian), George Mason (United States Founding Father), Richard Nixon (Former U.S. President), Clarence Thomas (U.S. Supreme Court Justice), Condoleeza Rice (U.S. Secretary of State), John Stossel (Journalist), P.J. O'Rourke (Satirist), Walter Williams (Economist), William F. Buckley (Political Pundit), Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Arctic Explorer), Ernest Shackleton (Antarctic Explorer), Elsie Clews Parsons (Ethnographic Anthropologist), Willis O'Brien (Film Effects Pioneer), Orson Welles (Filmmaker), Ingmar Bergman (Filmmaker), George Burns (Entertainer), DeForrest Kelley (Actor), Andrea B. (Life Partner)
Fast Facts
1. Birthday: January 20, 1976
2. Origin: Albuquerque, NM
3. Current Location: Same
4. Eye Color: Blue
5. Hair Color: Dishwater
6. Height: 5'5" (Give or take)
7. Right or Left Handed: Sinister
8. Your Heritage: Heinz 57 (English, Irish, Scottish, German, French, Russian...)
9. The Shoes You Wore Today: Loafers
10. Your Weakness: An opportunity to watch rain and/or snow fall renders me useless!
11. Your Fears: That the world as we know it will one day be turned on its head.
12. Your Perfect Pizza: Mediterranean
13. Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: To divest myself of Debt.
14. Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Drat! Alas and alack, the Sun is out.
15. Thoughts On First Waking: "Now I'm oiled. Keep me from the rats..." -Pietro Aretino, Italian Satirist (1492-1556)