I love to read, everything from fantasy and science fiction to mystery, horror, and "the classics" (on which everyone's opinions may vary). I love to play games, especially roleplaying games (D&D), but also card, board, and video/computer games. I like football and hockey live, but never met a baseball game I didn't love. Recently I've disovered that I love to cook, and have had a blast trying all kinds of new recipes. I love movies and television. Like to fish but never get to do it -- and have wanted to try ice fishing since I moved to Wisconsin. I love to travel to new places, but even more to return to places I've already been.
Anyone genuine. Offer me a good conversation, something to think about, or a laugh and we'll get along just fine. Plus, I wouldn't mind, say...
My tastes vary and are pretty broad, though I like Rock more than any other category, and I only like certain Country and Hip Hop. I find myself getting all cheesy and nostalgic for 80s music! My favorite performer in the world is Tori Amos, whose music I fell in love with when I was 16 years old and hasn't let up since. My iPod playlist is eclectic and probably weird, but it gets me through my work day!
Serenity!!!! Maybe this shouldn't count, since I wrote the roleplaying game licensed from the movie, but this film managed to grab me even after I had the screenplay practically memorized and had seen "rough cuts" of the film more than once. It was an amazing piece of filmmaking, and my hat is off to Joss Whedon as a writer and director. My taste in film is also all over the place, as I love independent and art films, like Girl With a Pearl Earring and The Machinist, like completely offbeat movies like Bubba Ho-Tep and Napolean Dynamite, but also love things like Raiders of the Lost Ark and old Arnold Schwarzzenegger movies. I like musicals old and new, from Phantom of the Opera to White Christmas -- and pretty much anything born of the theater, including Philadelphia Story and The Lion in Winter. I'm all over the place, and am kind of a film geek. I like reading screen and teleplays and listening to the commentary tracks on DVDs.
I watched Veronica Mars from the very first episode even when my wife and friends made fun of me -- who are now watching it every week. I love Lost, House, and have fun with crime shows like CSI, NCIS, and other acronyms. My appreciation for legal dramas comes and goes, but I've started watching Close to Home every now and again. I seem to like watching shows where mystery is an element one way or another. Everyone tells me I should watch Bones. I love things on Discovery, TLC, and the History channel. I also confess a complete addiction to the show Good Eats on food network, as Alton Brown is a geek who revels in his geekiness (something to which I relate), creating a cooking show for someone like me. I've been batting a thousand with his recipes, too.
Recently I've gotten the DVD sets for Deadwood (first two seasons) and Rome. Amazing stuff! And of course it's too good for television, since both are doomed.
Tell me a good story, and I'm there. I like everything from a Stephen King page-turner to weird old books like Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
The first hero I remember looking up to was Christopher Reeve, who will never truly be replaced as Superman in my eyes. I didn't have to know anything about him to know I admired him, and after watching him face overwhelming difficulties with unwavering hope, faith, and confidence all the way to his death, he is still one of my greatest heroes.Some might accuse me of brown-nosing, but it wouldn't be honest to leave my boss and favorite author, Margaret Weis, out of this. Her life story is an inspiration to me, because she kept at her dream and succeeded through major adversity and did things her way. She has faced difficult times in her health, family life, and more and got through it all with a kind of grace I could only one day hope to achieve. I work with her almost every day of the year, yet I probably respect and admire her more now than I did before I met her. I hope to be like her when I grow up.