FIRST AND FOREMOST, my dynamically talented and hyperintelligent 15-year-old son, Atom. Then.......Roller Derby!...Science, evolution, genetics, neurology, atheistic philosophy, cosmology, information technology, media production, egalitarian feminism, religion masquerading as science (‘Creation Science’ is an oxymoron) and the absurdity of the disastrous attempt by the religious right to underwrite this country's social structure with christian mores; the perception of beauty, natural selection, the nature vs. nurture debate (and ramifications of varied syntheses re same), and lots and lots of MUSIC. I have always had and still have a passion for punk rock music and ideology. I am an old-schooler who appreciates the progress of the scene but still never forgets her roots.
My alter ego is Demonicka Pocalypse, #666 of the Arch Rival Roller Girls, St. Louis. ARRG'S SECOND SEASON IS UNDERWAY!!! THE SMASHINISTAS TAKE ON THE M80s OCTOBER 27th!
I adore my derby sisters - I have never met a more awesome group of intelligent, creative, talented, beautiful, strong, independent women such as these. When put together, we are a powerful force to be reckoned with indeed.
Other geeks like me who feel like a dolphin in a goldfish pond. DO NOT want to meet anyone looking for a relationship, a good time, or a cute girl...or anyone religious, republican, racist, homophobic, patriarchal, uninformed, or "into partying". So don't bother asking me to add you if you are on a quest for chicks to slap up on your space; I WILL DENY YOU.
I created this space mainly to shamelessly plug the Arch Rival Roller Girls, our St. Louis All-Girl Flat-Track Roller Derby League. However, I love intelligent freethinking people and anybody who is strong enough not to give a damn what anyone else thinks of them.
Go to the Dwarves website! And while you're there, click on "Images" and see if you see anybody you know! The Dwarves (in the number 1 spot people), Bad Religion, Anti-Flag, Bauhaus, Circle Jerks, The Cure, Dag Nasty, Dayglo Abortions, Dead Kennedys, Demented Are Go!, Depeche Mode, Descendents, Duran Duran, Fugazi, The Eagles of Death Metal, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, Fugazi, Gogol Bordello, Gravity Kills, Gutter Demons, Hank III, Hot Water Music, Jane’s Addiction, the Jesus & Mary Chain, early Journey, Joy Division, L7, Lagwagon, Lords of Acid, Mad Caddies, Madness, early Madonna, Marilyn Manson, the Mars Volta, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, early Metallica, Millencolin, Ministry, Misfits, Motorhead, Motochrist, Mojo Nixon, Nekromantix, New Bomb Turks, New Order, early NIN, the Nips/the Nipple Erectors, Nirvana, Nitzer Ebb, NOFX, very early Offspring, Only Crime, Operation Ivy, Orgy, Pansy Division, Pennywise, early Prince, Propagandhi, Queens of the Stone Age, the Queers, early R.E.M., Reverend Horton Heat, The Ramones (of course!!), Rise Against, Rocket from the Crypt, Screeching Weasel, Screw 32, Sloppy Seconds, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Social Distortion, the Soviettes, Stiff Little Fingers, Static-X before they sold out, Strung Out, Styx, Suicidal Tendencies, Subhumans, Supersuckers, System of a Down, Tenacious D, Tones on Tail, Type O Negative, Ween’s country album, the Vandals, the White Stripes, A Wilhelm Scream, Yaz, and of course, the almighty TOOL.
Harrison Bergeron, Raising Arizona, Gattaca, Eddie Izzard Standup (any), High Fidelity, Baseketball, I Heart Huckabee's, Monty Python's anything, any Mel Brooks flick, Ichi the Killer, Stewie Griffin the Untold Story, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Neighbors, Harold & Maude, House of 1000 Corpses, The Birdcage, Good Will Hunting, This is Spinal Tap, Kentucky Fried Movie, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Happiness, May, Valley Girl, Sin City, What Dreams May Come, Death to Smoochy, War of the Roses, American History X, The Breakfast Club, Serial Mom, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, American Beauty
Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, South Park, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Weeds, Henry Rollins, Californication, most documentaries, and anything on the Science Channel.
Mostly nonfiction re the natural sciences, religion, philosophy, sociology, cosmology, the black arts and the occult, audio & media production/engineering, and biographies. I enjoy scientific periodicals and those dedicated to CFIDS & medical research re same. Also a lot of advocacy and investigative literature, usually left-wing oriented. I enjoy fiction in the form of tales of a negative Utopia (i.e., Bradbury, Orwell, etc.) but I also like tongue-in-cheek intellectual humorists such as Vonnegut. Occasionally I'll dip into a good cheesy horror book by Stephen King just for the hell of it. Oh and I am addicted to crossword puzzles.
Albert Einstein, Leonardo DaVinci, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Noam Chomsky, George Orwell, Larry Flynt, Ice-T, Michael Moore, Sylvia Massey, Andy Wallace, Sir George Martin, H.R. Giger, Lisa Lampanelli, Galileo Galilei, Frank Zappa, Helen Keller, Thomas Edison, Jello Biafra, Alan Sokol