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Alex

The lunatic is on the web.

About Me

I take things too seriously to be the joker I sometimes pass for. If I seem absent-minded it's because my mind went out to play. And that's me in a nutshell, which is where I belong.BTW, under "details" it automatically says that I'm an Aquarius, but due to the precession the Sun no longer goes into Aquarius in January; it does so in the middle of February. It was probably still in Capricorn when I was born. As if that made any difference.

My Interests

Music and dancing, cooking, reading, writing, history and politics, geography, SCA, science fiction and fantasy, word games, etc., etc., etc.

I'd like to meet:

I prefer to meet people who are both principled and broad-minded, both sober and kooky, both knowledgeable and ignorant. I'm not yet much into on-line social networking, though I am on MySpace (as you might have noticed). Most of my friends I meet in person, not on-line.As for famous people I might like to meet in person: Jesus, Shakespeare, Joanne Rowling, Bono . . .

Music:

Dancing

International folk dance, ballroom dance, contra and country dance, Renaissance dance, swing dance, etc.

Playing

I'm currently practicing the pennywhistle; I've also played with keyboards, guitar, doumbek, melodica, and a few other instruments.

Performers

Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Melissa Etheridge, Pink, the Who, U2, Santana, Shakira, Foo Fighters, TLC, Avril Lavigne, Frank Hayes, Weird Al Yankovic, and a bunch of Dr. Demento's usual suspects.

Composers

Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Wagner, the Strausses, and my all-time favorite composers: Anon and Trad.

Movies:

Star Wars (especially episodes 3-5), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Young Frankenstein, The Princess Bride, Back to the Future, This Is Spinal Tap, Bringing up Baby, Stage Door, the Fred and Ginger movies, The Lord of the Rings, et al.

Television:

Babylon 5, Deep Space 9, music videos, History Channel, Star Trek, Deperate Housewives, Seinfeld, et al.

Books:

LotR and The Hobbit, Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, The Wind in the Willows, the Enchanter series, Lest Darkness Fall, Howl's Moving Castle, Good Omens, the Discworld series, the Hitchhikers' "trilogy", Tea with the Black Dragon, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Forme of Cury, The English Dancing Master, Orchesographie

Heroes:

J. R. R. Tolkien, William Shakespeare, L. Sprague de Camp, Joanne Rowling, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, Katharine Hepburn, Jimi Hendrix, Steven Tyler, Bono, Jesus.