I'm Fernando.
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Playing bass, writing, playing guitar, reading, music, singing, Spanish, psychology, comedy, history, philosophy, astronomy/astrophysics, metaphors, really bad puns, hilarious incongruity, video/computer games, science fiction, fantasy, stoicism, honor, balance, benign misanthropy, chivalry, laconicism, quixoticism, witty banter, concerts, having an obscure quote or lyric ready for nearly any occasion, rain, poetry, plantlife, RPGs, transforming robots, hermits with mysterious pasts, offbeat shenanigans, UFO phenomena, breaking your soul (woh woh tonight), meaningful conversations, good spelling and grammar, kicking your *donkey* at Street Fighter, making the English language my *female dog*, and other miscellanea
I'd like to meet other writers, musicians, and creative/open-minded/intelligent/deep/witty people of all sorts with whom to converse and possibly establish what is referred to by humans as friendship.
Some of the bands/artists whose music I dig (in alphabetical order) include: 8stops7, AC/DC, Alice in Chains, Tori Amos, Anthrax, Apocalyptica, Audioslave, the Barenaked Ladies, Black Label Society, Breaking Benjamin, John Carey, Peter Cetera/Chicago, Phil Collins, the Cranberries, Disturbed, Dream Theater, Finger Eleven, Ben Folds (Five), Fozzy, Garbage, Hall & Oates, Stu Hamm, Buddy Holly, Iron Maiden, Waylon Jennings, Billy Joel, Elton John, Juanes, Live, Local H, Stephen Lynch, Sarah McLachlan, Meat Loaf, Metallica, Monster Magnet, Alanis Morissette, Muse, Nonpoint, the Offspring, Our Lady Peace, Pantera, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Seven Mary Three, Sevendust, Shadows Fall, Silverchair, Simon and Garfunkel, Soundgarden, Regina Spektor, Stone Temple Pilots, Stuck Mojo, Sum-41, System of a Down, Tenacious D, Third Eye Blind, Three Days Grace, Three Doors Down, Toad the Wet Sprocket, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Dar Williams, Within Temptation, Brian Vander Ark, the Verve Pipe, and "Weird" Al Yankovic. While the aforementioned lean heavily toward the rock end of the spectrum, I enjoy any music which moves me. I especially enjoy thoughtful and meaningful lyrics. Generally, I can't stand rap, techno, or anything that uses "sawtooth" as one of its primary "instruments."
Willow, Contact, the Princess Bride, the Harry Potter movies, The Addams Family, Great Expectations, Spanglish, Donnie Darko, Spaceballs, Bill & Ted 1+2, Transformers: the Movie, A League of Their Own, Army of Darkness, The Cutting Edge, Field of Dreams, A Walk to Remember, Airheads, Garden State, The Princess Diaries, Best of the Best, Batman, Spiderman 1+2, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Unbreakable, and tons of others I can't think of at the moment.
I don't watch very much television; when I do, it's usually limited to Star Trek: TNG/DS9 reruns, Jeopardy, or Science/Discovery Channel documentaries. I am also rather fond of Babylon 5.
"A Game of Thrones" (and its sequels) by George R. R. Martin, "The Age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurzweil, "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, "Rendezvous with Rama" (and its sequels) by Arthur C. Clarke, "Red Mars" (and its sequels) by Kim Stanley Robinson, "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" by Jack London, "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C. S. Lewis, "The Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan, the "Shannara" series by Terry Brooks, "American Gods, " "Anansi Boys, " and "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman, "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White, "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, "The Blue Sword" by Robin McKinley, "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, "Contact" by Carl Sagan, "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, and many others
My personal heroes include (in no particular order): Optimus Prime, Fast Eddie McLintock, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, La Parka, King Friday XIII, Boo Radley, Mick Foley, Tony Danza, Popeye, Mr. T, Chewbacca, Hank Scorpio, Deadpool, Papa Smurf, Bowser, Gargamel, Spiderman, Destro, Patches O'Houlihan, Frosty the Snowman, Frosty the Hitman, Mortimer Ichabod Marker, Shockwave, the Noble and Majestic Caribou, anyone with a Shoryuken and a fireball that travels across the screen, Littlebear (my stuffed animal), Sean Connery as portrayed on the SNL Celebrity Jeopardy skits, the Fonz, Bigfoot, Panthro, Super Dave, Yablo the Master of the Ocarina, Snuffleupagus, Oscar the Grouch, the Undead Hero, Gandalf, Allanon, Man-at-Arms, She-Ra (shut up), Jacques Cousteau, Bob Ross, Bill S. Preston (Esq.), Ted "Theodore" Logan, Rufus, Mel the cook on Alice, Geese Howard, Q, Robin Hood, King Arthur, Gilgamesh, the guy who did the deep and sexy voice for Iori Yagami in Kaze no Aregorii, Hunk from Voltron, Reepicheep the talking mouse, El Kabong, Storm Shadow, Station, the Swedish Chef, Ash from Evil Dead/Army of Darkness, Roy Fokker - Ace Veritech Pilot, Domo-Kun, Segata Sanshiro, Bananaman, Aragorn, Eeyore, Golbez, Rubicante, Casey Jones, the Count, David the Gnome, the Tick, Die Fledermaus, El Asso Wipo, Lambchop, Hercule/Mr. Satan, Danger Mouse, Baron Greenback, Steam Knight Guntz, Zylo the Werewolf, Kenji the mysterious and dangerous gymnastics teacher, Coyote, the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight, the entire populations of the Orz and Pkunk Empires, Calvin, Hobbes, Mr. Moviefone, Wonderboy, Young Nasty Man, Precious Roy, ZAPO, Stealth, Space Ghost, the Andorians, Darkwing Duck, Mr. Wizard, Black Mage, Red Mage, Devastator, Johnny 5, Gizmo, the Melnorme trader, Roger Wilco, Father Magruder, Conan the Barbarian, Count Duckula, that grumpy Care Bear with the raincloud tattooed on his front, Toonces the Cat Who Could Drive, Ronnie Cordova, Cochese, Yu Law (who's nobody's bitch), and Inigo Montoya.