Console Games (Xbox: Baldur's Gate, Bloodrayne, Fable, Halo, Halo 2, Jade Empire, Lego Star Wars, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Sudeki, Super Monkeyball Deluxe, Thief. PS2: Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy XII, God of War).
Economics.
Emotive Learning.
Equities Trading.
The Helix Group.
Human Evolution.
Language (Ancient Greek, Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Maa, Mandarin, Spanish, Swahili).
Martial Arts (Aikido, Capoeira, Chinese Kempo Karate, Jiu-Jitsu, Kali, Muay Thai, Tai Chi, Wing Chun).
Poetry.
Social Engineering.
St. John's College.
Travel (Albania, Australia, England, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Taiwan, The United States of America, -so far).
Writing.
(list very much still in progress)
I like meeting people. I'm interested in meeting and learning about virtually anyone I encounter (there are exceptions). There are a number of people who I have met that simply exist somewhere in my social sphere but from whom I learn nothing and fail to interact with in any meaningful way. This kind of person doesn't really make it very far up my list of people I'd like to meet.
Additionally, I don't want to check out your webcam, I don't want to join your site, and chances are that if you haven't heard of most of the groups on my music list, I'm not going to like yours. It's not that I don't like to hear new music, but my inbox is not a promotional venue. Unless you have some idea of who I am or what I'd be interested in hearing (which you could reasonably get by taking a minute to look at this page), don't bother sending me links to your band's page or trying to friend me. If you are not interested in me but just want to add another to your ridiculous number of friends or make a quick buck, look elsewhere. If I don't know you or you can't be bothered to spend a minute looking at my page, I'm not going to make some huge effort to be your friend. Also, if you send me a message or a friend request, I'll likely send you a message right back. If I don't hear from you, I'm going to forget you ever existed.
Allow me just to say this once. I am not interested in 'friending' people who have no idea who I am and haven't taken the time to read my profile. So, if you want to 'friend' me, take the time to read this profile. Of course you are reading my profile aren't you? In that case, do me a favour and SEND ME A MESSAGE BEFORE YOU SEND ME A FRIEND REQUEST (capitalization used for people doing a cursory scan of my profile). I'd appreciate it. I get a little tired of writing "who are you?" messages to people who have merely sent me a friend request on its lonesome.
That said, I like meeting people. I'm especially fond of meeting people who are interesting and can afford the effort to be interested in and communicate with me. I have no desire merely to collect "friends". I wouldn't mind meeting someone with whom to go to the gym, for instance, or discuss current affairs or poetry. I have no desire, however, to be the seven thousandth friend of some girl in Nebraska who wants to be popular on Myspace but can't take the time to talk to or learn anything about me.
I am also interested in meeting people that might be in a position to become part of the Helix Group. Once again, it'll take a little while to sort out the appropriate propaganda, but if you have questions, just ask.
The 6ths.
A Perfect Circle.
Apoptygma Berzerk.
Assemblage 23.
Babylon Zoo.
Bauhaus.
Nicole Blackman.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
David Bowie.
BT.
The Burden Brothers.
C-Tec.
Camera Obscura.
Nick Cave.
Jay Chou.
Leonard Cohen.
Concrete Blonde.
Covenant.
The Cruxshadows.
The Cure.
The Dandy Warhols.
Dead Can Dance.
Death will be Digital.
The Decemberists.
Depeche Mode.
De/Vision.
The Drive By Truckers.
Electric Six.
Folk Implosion.
Foo Fighters.
Gay Pimp.
Goldfrapp.
The Good Life.
HelixNine.
Hungry Lucy.
Icon of Coil.
Injection DNA.
Joydrop.
Kobold.
Ladytron.
Jens Lekman.
Marilyn Manson.
Jah Mason.
Mastema.
Matchbox Twenty.
MDFMK.
Moby.
Nils Petter Molvaer.
Muse.
My Bloody Valentine.
David Newman.
Nine Inch Nails.
Gary Numan.
Prodigy.
Random Access Memory.
Recoil.
Savage Garden.
Paul Schieffer.
Shorty Long.
Sisters of Mercy.
Sixteen Horsepower.
Stars.
Stromkern.
Switchblade Symphony.
The Tea Party.
Theatre of Tragedy.
This Mortal Coil.
Tool.
VNV Nation.
Voltaire.
Tom Waits.
Wolfshiem.
Wumpscut.
(list in progress)
The Animatrix.
Batman Begins.
The Boondock Saints.
The Bourne Identity.
The Bourne Supremacy.
A Clockwork Orange.
The Court Jester.
Dangerous Liasons.
Fight Club.
Final Fantasy: Advent Children.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
Godfather I, II & III.
Hackers.
Hamlet.
Hero.
Labyrinth.
The Matrix.
MirrorMask.
Mononoke Hime.
The Notebook.
Pitch Black.
The Princess Bride.
Red Dragon.
Romeo + Juliet.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Rules of Attraction.
Serenity.
The Silence of the Lambs.
Swordfish.
The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Underworld.
Wicker Park.
(list in progress)
American Gothic.
Chobits.
Coupling.
Cowboy Bebop.
Dune.
Farscape.
Firefly.
Gungrave.
Hellsing.
Invader Zim.
Lexx.
Mad Money.
Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Neverwhere.
Red Dwarf.
Trigun.
Trinity Blood.
(list in progress)
[I've cut this list down to just works that are significant in my memory]
Aeschylus' Oresteia.
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound.
Dante Alighieri's Inferno.
Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio.
Dante Alighieri's Paradiso.
St. Anselm's Basic Writings.
St. Thomas Aquinas' Basic Writings.
Aristophanes' Clouds.
Aristotle's Complete Works.
St. Augustine's Confessions.
Jane Austin's Emma.
J.S. Bach's Matthaus-Passion.
Francis Bacon's New Organon.
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.
Caleb Carr's The Alienist.
Caleb Carr's The Angel of Darkness.
Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.
Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Nicolaus Copernicus' On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres.
Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.
Rene Descartes' A Discourse on Method.
Rene Descartes' Geometry.
Rene Descartes' Philisophical Essays.
Feodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.
Epictetus' The Discourses.
Euclid's Elements.
Euripides' Complete Works.
Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.
Neil Gaiman's Sandman Series.
Galileo Galilei's Two New Sciences.
William Gibson's Neuromancer.
Goethe's Faust.
William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
William Goldman's Princess Bride.
Grey's Anatomy.
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison's The Federalist.
William Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals.
Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson.
Martin Heidegger's Basic Writings.
Frank Herbert's Dune.
Herodotus' The Histories.
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan.
Homer's Iliad.
Homer's Odyssey.
David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.
David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature.
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.
Johannes Kepler's Epitome of Copernican Astronomy.
Johannes Kepler's Harmonies of the World.
Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.
Soren Kierkegaard's Repetition.
Antoine Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry.
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wind in the Door.
Madeleine L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
Jacob Klein's Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.
G. W. Leibniz' Philosophical Essays.
John Locke's Second Treatise of Government.
Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.
Martin Luther's On Christian Liberty.
Niccolo Machiavelli's Prince.
Niccolo Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy.
Karl Marx's Early Writings.
James Clerk Maxwell's An Elementary Treatise on Electricity.
James Clerk Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism.
James Clerk Maxwell's Theory of Heat.
John Milton's Complete Works.
Michel de Montaigne's Complete Essays.
W. A. Mozart's Die Zauberflote.
Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji.
The New Testament.
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy.
Friedrich Nietzsche's The Case of Wagner.
Friedrich Nietzsche's The Anti-christ.
Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols.
George Orwell's 1984.
George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Blaise Pascal's Pensees.
Plato's Complete Works.
Plotinus' Essential Writings.
Plutarch's Lives.
Ptolemy's Almagest.
Mario Puzo's The Godfather.
Francois Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Jean Racine's Phedre.
Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld's Maxims.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse of the Sciences and the Arts.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse of Political Economy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's On the Social Contract.
Donatien-Alphonse-Francois Sade's Collected Works.
William Shakespeare's Complete Works.
Hugh Hildreth Skilling's Fundamentals of Electric Waves.
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
Sophocles' Complete Plays.
Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise.
Sun Pin's Military Methods.
Sun Tzu's Art of War.
The Supreme Court of the United States' Marbury vs. Madison.
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Tacitus' Complete Works.
The Tanakh.
Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War.
Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.
Virgil's Aeneid.
Voltaire's Candide.
Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.
William Wordsworth's The Two Part Prelude of 1799.
William Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey.
Victor Zuckerkandl's The Sense of Music.
(list in progress)
Eamon Armstrong.
Michael Armstrong.
Rembrandt Stokhof de Jong.
David Hand.
(tenatively).