Esoteric Philosophy and Mathematics, Physics and Cosmology, Theatre, Extensive social networks filled with passionate people, winemaking, wine drinking, drinking in general, travel, Italo Calvino and Borges, momentary decisions and adventures my entourage try to dissuade me from.
Free spirits and poets
The Notwist, Postal Service, Linda Perry, Patty Larkin, Scissor Sisters, Snow Patrol, 13 and God, The Strokes, The Killers, The Pixies, The Shins, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Be Good Tanyas, Spoon, Peter Paul and Mary, Dar Williams, Shawn Colvin
Amelie, Goodbye Lenin, A Very Long Engagement, Magnolia, The Hudsucker Proxy, Everything is Illuminated, The Triplets of Belleville (which has the Einstein Equation on the splash screen, something about its all relative, I guess), The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, not that Demi Moore shit), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, LA Story, Mind the Gap
The idiot box must be destroyed. My research group at Rice once made a rail gun which, ignoring the drag force, could easily have hit some of the broadcast cable satellites but we never could account for the aim, even with access to the NASA tracking database. Maybe later....its a life goal.
If on a winters night a traveler, Italo Calvino; Complete Works of Fiction, Jorge Borges; The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi), Hermann Hesse; Letters Regarding the English Nation, Voltaire; Pnin and Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov; Essential Relativity, Wolfgang Rindler; General Relativity, Wald; La Comedia Divinia, Dante Algheiri; Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl; Analysis of Spacetime Singularities (Both informative and funny...believe it or not); The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Albert Einstein
Daniel Berrigan