Photography, Art, music, cooking, ancient weaponry. Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu, Ninjutsu. S.C.U.B.A. diving, knife, axe and shuriken throwing. Sword arts, collecting.
I'd like to meet:
Enlightened humans, open minded free - thinking types. Those with a taste and flair for the arts. Practitioners of the arts of Budo, Bujutsu, Ninpo and those that recognize that the ways of battle and combat can be turned inward to produce a better human being. Takamatsu Sensei said "Life begins at fifty". I now better understand Sensei's wisdom. I have never had more joy in my life before. I have more friends, and have finally learned to enjoy my life.
Music:
The Personals , The Donnas , Oingo Boingo / Danny Elfman, DEVO, Crystal Method, The Shamen, Wall of Voodoo / Junior Brown / Stan Ridgeway, XTC, The Cars, Front 242, April March / Voodo Dali / Tanz Waffen, Pink, 2 Unlimited, Depeche Mode, The Eurythmics / Annie Lennox, Garbage, Heart, Lene Lovich, The Judys, Nitzer Ebb, Evanescence, The Dresden Dolls, Alan Parsons Project, Pet Shop Boys, Judas Priest, Rob Zombie, KMFDM, Pink, 10cc, Alpha Team, Enya, Blue Man Group,
Pat Benatar, Queen, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Elvis Prestley, David Bowie, Kelly Osbourne, Kitaro, Die Krupps, Yello, Smile and Nod, B-52's, Tears For Fears, Patrick D. Martin, Slow Children, Suburban Lawns, Alannah Myles, The Bobs, Stan Nuevo, Cyberacktiv, The Kinks, Blondie, Joe Jackson, 4 Out of 5 Doctors, Tracy Bonham, Soft Cell, Venus Hum, Grace Jones, K.D. Lang, La Bouche, Peter Gabriel. House, Trance and Techno Dance.Classical:
John Williams, Wolfgang Mozart, Jacques Offenbach, Johann Strauss, Richard Wagner, Gioacchino Rossini, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludvig Van Beethoven, Gustav Holst, Modest Mussorgsky, John Phillip Sousa, and Sergei Prokofiev.
Movies:
I love movies, so it would take too much space to mention them all. Some of my favorites are: Alien, Aliens, Batman Begins, Dr. Strangelove, Highlander, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Scent of a Woman, Spiderman, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Legend, Them!, The Lathe of Heaven, The Last Time I Saw Archie, Hot Shots! - Part Deux, The Bliss of Mrs. Blossum, Bedazzled (the original), Zardoz, Excalibur, Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch, Designing Woman, Adams' Rib, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, From Russia With Love, True Lies, Theatre of Blood, The Seven Samurai, Zatoitchi, Yojimbo, The Long Riders, Akira, L. A. Story, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Merlin, Arabian Nights, The Man Who Would Be King, The Dogs of War, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Big Trouble In Little China, The Thing (both versions), Predator, Beauty and the Beast, A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail, Top Secret!, Blade, Blind Fury, Terminator, Terminator 2, The Quiet Man, The Princess Bride, Second Hand Lions, Hook, Fright Night, The Three Muskateers ( Gene Kelly and Oliver Platt versions), The Mark of Zorro, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Scaramouche, The Last of the Mohicans, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rob Roy, Conan, Deathtrap, Sleuth, Army of Darkness, Pirates of the Caribbean, Roxanne, Ladyhawke, Maverick, City Slickers, Galaxy Quest, Tombstone, Silverado, Star Trek: First Contact, Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), Shoalin Master Killer, Groundhog Day.
Television:
Smallville, Monarch of the Glen, Mythbusters, Mail Call, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, National Geographic Channel, Robot Chicken, Harvey Birdman, The Brak Show, Futurama, Adult Swim, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Aeon Flux, Winter Steele. Anything Monty Python. Wild Wild West (the original). The Munsters and The Addams Family.
Books:
I am a bibliophile! I like H.P. Lovecraft and "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" - Balthasar Gracian. I recommend anything by Vernon Howard. I am a big fan of any published work by Dr. Maasaki Hatsumi Sensei. I am a devotee of Sun Tzu.Shambhala: The Path of the Warrior - Chogyam Trungpa.I am currently reading the great works of Robert E. Howard."What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs---I was a man before I was a King" - Robert E. Howard
Heroes:
Harry Houdini (Eric Weiss), Penn and Teller, Benjamin Franklin, Teddy Roosevelt, Vernon Howard, Dr. Maasaki Hatsumi Sensei, Chuck Yeager, Annie Oakley, Bruce Lee, pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen, 332nd Fighter Pursuit Group, United States Army (1944). My students.
