Her philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in her famous phrase, "You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink." (Terry Pratchett).
Hollow laughs. French kisses. Red Wine. Lurking. Ink. So much more than black or white.
Be bothered by my ART .
Science. Medicine. Art. Architecture. Music. Dancing. Japanese knives. Waves. Refined Alcohol. Asian Food. Technology. Humans. Food. Snow. Books. Movies. Writing. Painting. Animal Rights. Teaching.
Staying sane. Just so. But I like to visit the border and wave.
I occasionally daydream about massacring the obnoxious folks that won't just fuck off and leave me alone. I like to bite. I also like the word "Fuck". A lot.
Further interests include Naginata, traditional archery and Shaolin Kung Fu.
Yoda and The League of Gentlemen. Not necessarily at once.
Uh. Starts somewhere in the 9th century with the works in the Magnus Liber, graces Renaissance music (Divides the Real Guitarists from the Quiche Eaters...), Baroque, Classic, Blablabla, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Punk, Electronica of all sorts, Weird, Worldmusic. You'll easily find Mozart Masses stacked between Herbie Hancock and the Backyard Babies, garnished by OSTs, sprinkled with some Beatles and Stones bootlegs, a good helping of Johnny Cash and Townes van Zandt, all buried between layers of so-called indie music. Whatever that is supposed to mean.Get my drift?Or go and look here:
Yes.
Always on the verge of making one. Haha.
I find Lost in La Mancha particularly enlightening.
Exploded. Really! So I have none at the moment. Which forces me to watch shows I have on dvd: Lost (Who doesn't?), House MD (Exactly when started Hugh Laurie to be sexy?!), The Young Ones (Cult!), Jeeves&Wooster ("Very good, sir." Not. At. All. ), Little Britain, League of Gentlemen ( Made for horror fans by horror fans. No, you can't help me at all.), Desperate Housewives (The guilty pleasure thing), The Office (UK), Futurama, Six Feet Under (Darkness!), Simpsons (Yes, but he is still Mr. Groening to me!), ER (Continuing medical education, at least the first few series), Family Guy and I am still waiting for Chewin' The Fat to make it to my collection...
Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman (yeah, the British Geek Crowd); Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker, R.A. Lafferty, Luther Blisset, Neal Stephenson, Garth Nix, Philip Pullman, Spike Milligan, Charles Addams, R.M. Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Lawrence Sterne, Robert Anton Wilson, Theodore Sturgeon, Anais Nin, Robert Burns, Khalil Gibran, Eun Heekyung, Rudyard Kipling, Michael Moore, Stephen Fry, Salman Rushdie, Georges Batailles, Richard Feynman, Peter S. Beagle, Richard Dawkins, David Sedaris, Ambrose Bierce, Irvine Welsh, Dylan Thomas, Dante Alighieri, John Updike, Arthur C. Clarke, Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Martin Millar, Matt Ruff... and I could probably go on for ever.
My Mom. Archimedes, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Richard Feynman, Louise Bourgeois, Douglas Adams, Peggy Guggenheim, Brian Haberlin.
Frau Meinhof: when desperate intellect loses control.