Capoeira - a Brazilian martial art which I have practiced for more than three yearsTravel - Home is undoubtedly where the heart is for me, but the excitement and sense of awe that travel gives me is invigorating.Music - Very eclectic taste in music and I definitely have a hard on for new bands and good music.Live Shows - Standup Comedy and Live Music are worth every penny the tickets cost.Cooking - What can I say? I'm a Portugese boy and I like tasty things. I have a very fast metabolism, or worms. Cooking is fun because you can explore tastes, textures, colors, venture into the exotic or the heart-warming, cook alone or with others (one of my favorite things to do is to throw the TV or a CD on, have a beer, and cook with the significant other).Animals - Owned dogs my entire life, I also train and swim with them. Currently learning to ride and care for horses, too, but I don't swim with them. Cats are fun, and you know when I've been playing with one because my eyes are puffy and my nose is runny.Good Friends - People like Devon Carver and Jeff L-Bishop make life awesome. Finding people in the world who just *click* with you can't be undervalued. The Mike Joliffe's, Nicole Medina's, who are warm-hearted and ever uplifting, I love em also. Megan Bergs and Craig (insert forgotten last name) who are insanely fun and witty and incurable drunks, make life fun.Like chocolate, without good friends, life wouldn't be worth living!
Mestre Acordeon! I've been trying but I keep missing him!Mestre Bimba (he's dead unfortunately).My Grandpa Frank. I never got to spend a lot of time with him since he died when I was so young. People hate when I rub my beard stubble on them --- I do it because I remember he had a beard like RAZORS and he used to smile this creepy, loving smile, and hug me with a good beard scratch.
Belle and Sebastian Bob Marley Bloc Party Blondie Bossa Nova type stuff + Spanish/Brazilian guitar, etc Buddha Bar Caetano Veloso Cat Stevens Dave Matthews Band David Bowie Dealership Django Rheinhardt Fila Brazilia Fleetwood Mac Frank Sinatra Franz Ferdinand Green Day Guster Hot Hot Heat Imogen Heap Iron and Wine Jack Johnson Jimi Hendrix John Stotter Juno Reactor Keane Louis Armstrong Metric Muse Nervous and the Kid Nirvana No Doubt Paul Oakenfold Pedro the Lion Psapp Robert Randolph Talking Heads Tenacious D The Beatles The Crystal Method The Cure The Doors The Faint The John Butler Trio The Killers The Neville Brothers Tim Reynolds Tristan Prettyman Queen
Adaptation Akira Amelie American History X Annie Hall Being John Malkovich Black Adder Blazing Saddles Boondock Saints Chasing Amy Cidade de Deus (City of God) Donnie Darko Emperor's Club Empire Records Family Guy Fawlty Towers Firefly Full Metal Jacket Futurama Dr. Strangelove Garden State Godfather Grosse Pointe Blank Half Baked Harold and Maude Hedwig an the Angry Inch High Fidelity Ice Pirates Lost in Translation Love Liza Mall Rats Manhattan Mona Lisa's Smile Monty Python Office Space Platoon Pulp Fiction Princess Mononoke Robot Jox Run Lola Run Sahara Scarface Serenity Stargate SG-1 The Big Lebowski The Breakfast Club The Lodoss War The Professional The Simpsons Train Spotting Zoolander
The most comfortable couch in my house is pointed at it for a reason.
The Forever War, by Joe HaldemanThe Parafaith War, by L.E. Modesitt Jr.Foundation, by Isaac AsimovAngela's Ashes, by Frank McCourtArte Capoeira, by Mestre DeputadoThe Little Book of Capoeira, by Nestor CapoeiraThe Fey, by Kristine RuschPastwatch, by Orson Scott CardAnything by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (global history intertwined in general)
Warmachine.He was *way* cooler than Iron Man. And if anybody gives me that "meh meh meh he didn't have super powers, he's just a guy in a suit" I'll bloody your lip.