A few of these may surprise you... Filmmaking(of course), acting, playing music on various instruments(mainly keyboards for me), Egyptology, Cyberpunk, D&D, Samurai(Bushido), Japan-Japanese(Hajimenmashite! Dozo yoroshiku onaegashimasu!), Game Developer, Graphics Artist, Animation(mostly Flash), anything with a creative vibe....
GREAT MINDS talk about ideas, AVERAGE MINDS talk about events, and SMALL MINDS talk about people.
I'd like to meet:
Anyone... but most of all, actors and fellow musicians and filmmakers in the Arizona area.
In gamer circles:
Richard Garriott
Gary Gygax
Anyone else, who wants to help me bring in the next generation of gaming that will merge passive movie watching with interactive RPG. I have a plan for the future of gaming.Visionaries -- Quest Seekers -- Artist -- Musicians -- and finally... those who live the dream.
Music:
LJR's Music @ MySpace.com
I write music myself but if I were to say Genre it would be: Techno, Trance, Ambient, Industrial, Gothic, Rave, HipHop, House, R&B, D&B, Reggae, Jazz, Classical, Folk, New Age and anything with a futuristic vibe to it.
Oribital, Rabbit In the Moon, Astral Projection, Richard Searles, Prodigy, Intelligentsia, Midnight Syndicate, Miklós Rózsa, Gardians Of The Earth, Morgan the Bard, Blackmore's Night
Movies:
Current favorite movie:
Blade Runner
Dragonlance Movie
Television:
Project Greenlight, Ghost Hunters, Random 1, On the Lot
Books:
Game Programming All in One
Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture From Geek to Chic
The Riverside Shakespeare 2nd ed.
How Not to Write a Screenplay
How to Write Science Finction & Fantasy - Orson Scott Card
Trippingly on the Tongue - Laura Crockett
Infoquake - David Louis Edelman
I read a lot of books, but these are a few that I'm currently reading/reviewing.
Heroes:
Bruce Lee , Richard Garriott , Leonardo da Vinci , Mozart , Ridley Scott , George Lucas , Steven Spielberg , Akira Kurosawa
