I'd like to meet:
Michael Yon: an amazing journalist
Southern Culture on the Skids
and you too!
Music:
Ska, rockabilly, swing, exotica, surf, punk, 80s, jazz, hillbilly, mod, bluegrass, celtic, mariachi, Hawaiian, sea shanties, etc.
Now Playing
Movies:
Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, LOTR, Lock Stock, 300, Shawshank, Swingers, Team America, Office Space, Lost in Translation, No Country for Old Men, Knocked Up, Hot Fuzz, Japanese Monster Movies (esp Gamera and Godzilla), Apocalypto, There Will Be Blood, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Blues Brothers, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Valley Girl, Napoleon Dynamite, anything by M. Night Shyamalan, Love Actually, Cinema Paradiso (I cry every time!), Quadrophenia, Shaun of the Dead, Starship Troopers, Sin City, Ran, LA Confidential...
Office Space
Television:
Diff'rent Strokes, Facts of Life, What's Happening, Battlestar Gallactica, Land of the Lost, A-Team, Airwolf, CHiPs, Magnum PI, Knight Ryder, Simon & Simon, The Fall Guy, Benson, Family Ties, Three's Company, Night Court, Silver Spoons, One Day at a Time and reruns of the Match Game.
Books:
Liberal Fascism (Jonah Goldberg), Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Christopher Hitchens), Middleton's Allergy: Principles & Practice (Adkinson, et al), The Future and Its Enemies (Virginia Postrel), Infidel (Ayaan Hirsi Ali), Dream Palace of the Arabs (Fuoud Ajami), Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand), The Youngest Science (Lewis Thomas), Two Years Before the Mast (Richard Henry Dana Jr), One Bullet Away (Nate Fick), Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), The Panda's Thumb (Stephen J. Gould), poems by TS Eliot, Imagist poems. Mags: Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, The Economist. Blogs: Michael Yon, Little Green Footballs, Michael J Totten, Instapundit, Build Up That Wall.
I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
Heroes:
Margaret Q Adams (first woman deputy sheriff in US, Los Angeles County Sheriffs Dept 1912, and my great-grandmother)
Duke Kahanamoku
Mark Daily & all who serve
Lewis Thomas
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Christopher Hitchens
This Guy