Travel. Travel. Travel. But we're branching out into some other areas. I've been cooking a lot of French food lately. Mmmm. Yes. Global Warming is never far from my mind. Politics is becoming an obsession. Particularly American economic policy. I find it infuriating that our military budget exceeds the sum of the entire industrialized world AND major developing powers such as China and Brazil, but you know, darn it, we just can't afford health care, pensions, decent public education or transportation, and/or any other sensible uses of public money that the citizens of other civilized countries take for granted. I'm also teaching myself French. Lentement.
I'd like to meet:
I'm happy with who I know. A few people I wish I didn't know, but hey.
Music:
The more complicated the better. I started out with Radiohead and Bjork (whom I still love) but have since moved on to an obsession with jazz and fusion in general, Miles Davis in particular, classical music, most notably Brahms and Beethoven, techno, Lounge music like Thievery Corporation and electronica in all its forms. Animals on Wheels, while having an asinine name puts out superb music.
Movies:
Hmmm. 2001 definitely. The first half of The Ten Commandments is also some classic 50's pageantry and grandiosity which is a hell of a lot of fun to watch. American Beauty is great fun. Black Hawk Down is the first war movie that I really got. Saving Private Ryan is also a great. Oh god, how could I forget the Godfather movies? Anything by Martin Scorsese or Steven Soderbergh. Apocalypse Now. Wow. Hmmm. This list is a work in progress. There are many omissions, I'm sure.
Television:
Television is the opiate of the masses.
Books:
I love anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I have also read almost all of Nietzsche's major writings. I've been trying to make it through Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation for about a year now, but I never seem to get enough momentum. Gore Vidal. The Passion of the Western Mind, The Discoverers, Shakespeare. Contemporary Politics. History.
Heroes:
I don't really have any. I used to be quite fascinated with Friedrich Nietzsche but while I still have a great deal of respect for his courageous intellect and almost miraculous foresight, I hesitate to call him a "hero." Still, I guess he's the closest.
