Jesus Christ, my wife, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Music, Metal, beer, excessively hot food, art snobbery, the ocean, belief, trolls (I have one), paradigms, Motorsport (NASCAR, F1, and IRL), music software, MANOWAR, drinking horns, *nix, dead languages, mysticism, sushi, religion, WORDS OF POWER , learning languages (human or otherwise), writing music, Thai food, mellow bars, my house, hacking (Ada, Common Lisp/Scheme, and Smalltalk), wine, vikings, pirates, emacs, lazy days, good people with a sense of humor....
I'd like to meet:
I WILL NOT ADD YOU UNLESS I KNOW YOU OR YOU MESSAGE ME FIRST. I AM NOT INTERESTED ADDING PEOPLE WHO WANT TO COLLECT FRIENDS. IF I DO NOT KNOW YOU FROM REAL LIFE AND YOU HAVE NOT MESSAGED ME FIRST AND YOU TRY TO ADD ME, I WILL ASSUME YOU ARE COLLECTING FRIENDS AND DENY YOUR REQUEST.
Music:
Lots. Some other current and all time favorites: Abigor, Anthrax, Ayreon, Bathory, Bela Bartok, Blut Aus Nord, Bolt Thrower, Burzum, almost all Byzantine Chant, Celestia, Celtic Frost, Christian Death, Coil, Corpus Delicti, Cradle of Filth, Crash Worship, The Cult, Current 93, Darkthrone, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Emperor, Epica, Faith No More, Fields of the Nephilim, Finntroll, Gehenna, Gorgoroth, Hilary Duff, Horna, Ildjarn, Immortal, Iron Maiden, John Cage, John Tavener, Joy Division, Judas Iscariot, Judas Priest, Kawir, Kult Ov Azazel, Lacrimosa, Laibach, Legendary Pink Dots, Lou Reed, Manes, MANOWAR, Marty Robbins, Mayhem, Morbid Angel, Mozart, My Dying Bride, Negura Bunget, Nile, Nokturnal Mortum, Opeth, Pain of Salvation, Pink Floyd, Pogues, Queen, Rasputina, Riverside, Rotting Christ, Satyricon, Shadow Project, The Sisters of Mercy, Strapping Young Lad, Summoning, Swans, Symphony X, System of a Down, Taake, Thy Infernal, Varathron, Velvet Cacoon, Velvet Underground, Vlad Tepes, Warrior Soul, Weltmacht, Xasthur.
Movies:
Mostly comedies and dramas (war movies = good) along with the occasional stupid action movie (I'm a guy). The Big Lebowski, Brain Candy, any Monty Python movie, any Mel Brooks, Bruce Lee flicks, To End All Wars, Captin Ron, Full Metal Jacket, Underworld, X-Men, Apocalypse Now, Team America, The Royal Tenenbaums, 13th Warrior, Lord of the Rings, etc.
Television:
Actually, we don't have TV TATM, so not much of anything. But when I did, ever since the Hitler, I mean History Channel started showing less Hitler, I watched less and less. Besides documentaries (favorites are anything WW2, Roman, or ancient/biblical), the usuals, Simpsons, King of the Hill, Survivor, Arrested Development, Speed channel, South Park, Venture Brothers, Hercules, Xena, Buffy, Angel....
Books:
I read a lot and far too much of my money goes to support Amazon.com. If it's non-fiction and paradigm related I'll probably read it. I mostly read religious books from every faith (still need to get to Sikhism). I'm a liturgical whore and obsessed with ritual, mystic, and liturgical practices so I tend to read a lot of "technical manuals." Regardless, some all time favorites from all over the place in no particular order are the Douay-Rheims, KJV, and RSV Bible, Psybermagick, Liber Null and Psychonaut, Liber Kaos, The Bhagavad Gita, 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley, Being Nobody Going Nowhere, Who is My Self?, The Majjhima Nikaya, Abhidhammattha Sangaha, Visuddhimagga, The Psalter According to the Seventy, The Great Horologion, The Rule of St. Benedict, The Monastic Diurnal, Monastic Breviary Matins, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, anything by Victor Hugo and William Gibson, anything by Jaroslav Pelikan (memory eternal!), the Philokalia, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, The Desert Fathers, everything by my patron St. Dionysius the Areopagite, The Way of the Pilgrim, The Golden Dawn, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, The Orthodox Way, Nagarjuna's Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, Words of My Perfect Teacher, The Practice of Dzogchen, True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits, What the Buddha Taught, Tantric Practice in Nyingma, The Qur'an, Programming in Ada 2005, ANSI Common Lisp, On Lisp, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming : Case Studies in Common Lisp, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, The Little Schemer, The Seasoned Schemer, The Scheme Programming Language, How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing....
Heroes:
Besides the usual ,
my patron (above), St. Benedict, Prophet King David, the Dude, and Steve Holt.
