Teaching; Reading; Writing; Music of all types, but mostly Rock; Biking; Gamecock sports; Dating; Braves baseball; Cooking (always looking for new, creative recipes); Billiards; Long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days; and making people smile/laugh.
Frylock and I are tizzight!
I'm a proud alumnus of LMS, but I don't remember ever taking this exam.
I teach English so that shit like this doesn't happen.
I've been saying this for years.
Whatever ball club did this, I'm their newest fan.
I'd like to meet:
Michel Foucault, but unfortunately he is dead. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, but unfortunately he is fictional. Quentin Compson, but unfortunately he is both fictional and dead.
Music:
Tool, Carbon Leaf, U2, Incubus, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, Travis, John Mayer, Led Zeppelin, CCR/Fogerty, Hank Williams Jr., Moby, BT, Crystal Method, Cowboy Mouth, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Louis Armstrong, Norah Jones, Ryan Adams, Alice in Chains, Aqualung, Chemical Brothers, Godsmack, Gustav Holst's 'Planets', Jump Little Children, Matchbox 20, Modest Mouse, Pachelbel's Canon in D, Phish, Propellerheads, Thornley.
I like to move it, move it!
Movies:
Shawshank Redemption; Super Troopers; The Usual Suspects (hence my profile name); Shrek; Casablanca; Cinema Paradiso; Star Wars, Episodes IV-VI; The Last Supper; Amelie; Austin Powers series; The Bourne series; Caddyshack; Citizen Kane; Clerks; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; The Emperor's Club; ET; Fargo; The Goonies; The Great Escape; The Italian Job; The Ladykillers; Lean On Me; Life is Beautiful; Office Space; Orange County; O Brother, Where Art Thou; Princess Bride; Raising Arizona; Spies Like Us; Stargate; Star Trek Series (especially First Contact); Wonder Boys.
Television:
I mostly watch News/Weather and Sports (ESPN). I love re-runs of M*A*S*H, CSI, and Star Trek. My new favorite show is Dexter, and I can't wait for the third season. I like Discovery Channel: Cash Cab, How It's Made, and Mythbusters. I like Lost; my favorite characters are Sawyer and Hurley.
Books:
Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury, Go Down Moses, and Light in August; Twain's Huck Finn; Dreiser's Sister Carrie; Wright's Native Son and Uncle Tom's Children; Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls; Kosinsky's Being There; Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, and Mother Night; Philip Roth's American Pastoral, The Counterlife, and The Human Stain; DeLillo's Underworld, Libra, and White Noise; Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49; Nabokov's Lolita, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and Pale Fire; Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying and A Gathering of Old Men; Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451; Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina; Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ishiguro's The Unconsoled; Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series; Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life; Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and The Underground Man; Ellison's Invisible Man; Heller's Catch-22; Smiley's A Thousand Acres; and Voltaire's Candide.
Favorite poets: Margaret Atwood, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, Wallace Stevens, Robert Penn Warren, James Wright, Li-Young Lee.
Heroes:
My sister, who faced the pain of the greatest loss one can endure and stood strong.
My parents. I know how rare it is to have parents as good as mine, and I don't take it for granted.
Here are a few people I admire for either their courage or ideas or both:
Martin Luther - Reformer
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights leader
William Faulkner - Writer
Dorothy Allison - Writer
Mark Twain - Writer/Satirist
Michel Foucault - Philosopher/Historian
Judith Butler - Philosopher/Historian
Yoda - Jedi Knight/Philosopher
Which Star Wars Character Are You?
Yoda
You are wise and a great leader. Just because you are small doesn't mean you don't have a lot of oomph behind it.
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