Reading, writing, working out, racquetball, aikido, anime, home improvement (unwillingly), architecture, anthropology, politics...
I'd like to meet:
Aliens of any kind, I'm not picky....Henry Rollins,
Bill Clinton -- the best president by far in my lifetime, and STILL working toward ending poverty and curing disease through the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).
Music:
Godsmack, Sting, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, (very old) Genesis, Iggy Pop, Frank Zappa, Niel Young, David Sylvian, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, TSOL, Brahms, Bartok, Miles Davis, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Perry Ferrell, Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros, The Cult, Screaming Trees, Bob Marley, RHCP, Primus, Gorillaz, the RZA, Adrian Belew, Henry Rollins, King Crimson, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains, Lou Reed, Janis Joplin, The 3-D Invisibles, Laurie Anderson, Pink Floyd, Faith No More, Ennio Morricone, Fields of the Nephilim, Soundgarden, Biff Naked, Rollins Band,
Movies:
Bladerunner, Brazil, Raising Arizona, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Black Robe, Dr. Strangelove, Alien, Aliens, Star Wars, all Bruce Lee, all Jet Li, all Quentin Tarantino, 5 Deadly Venoms, The Lathe of Heaven, Red Sun, Dark Star, Educating Rita, The Quick and the Dead, all Sergio Leone, most Oliver Stone, Forbidden Planet, Return of the Deadly Alien Spawn, Return of the Living Dead (more brains!), The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Coming to America, The Shawshank Redemption, V for Vendetta, Pan's Labyrinth, 300,
Television:
I'm addicted to Naruto, One Piece, The Daily Show (best show in the world!), The Henry Rollins Show (also the best show in the world), The Colbert Report and Frontline. I used to be way into "24". My friends love "Lost" but it sounds like it would drive me crazy!I was also way into The Prisoner, Red Dwarf, and Dr. Who.
Books:
Science Fiction: Prayers to Broken Stones, Dune, Hyperion, The Lensmen Series, The Foundation Trilogy, The Lathe of Heaven, all Dan Simmons, all Ursula Leguin, all Gene Wolfe, Bruce Sterling and Michael Swanwick.
Political: Deterring Democracy, World Orders Old and New, The Assassins' Gate, Who Will Tell the People
Misc: Out of Control, Jihad vs. McWorld, Art & Science
Science: Natural Life, The Flamingoe's Smile
Heroes:
An interesting excersize is to build your very own Mt. Rushmore in your mind. Who would you have on it?I'm thinking, Carl Sagan, for one. Cosmos was an awesome program that really communicated how incredible the world and our universe really is. I maintain there's more God in one episode of Cosmos than in all the houses of worship in the world. You can't understand God, but you can grasp parts of the world He (perhaps) created.Another would be MLK. That sounds cheesy, but really, anyone who can bring the world forward philosophically has done something practically impossible given mankind's generally contentious and greedy nature. So yeah, MLK.I'm still working on the others. But that's a start ^^
