I figure if you keep reading long enough, you'll figure something out about me from the things that I post here. Or not. In any case, don't expect me to post some ridiculous accounting of who or what I am. Just use your imagination, and be a little creative.
The acquisition of random knowledge, Reading (Check the books section), Writing, Politics, Law, History (Ancient, Mediterranean, Chinese), Cooking (regardless, my cooking is a sin against nature), World Domination, Travel (Need to go back to Europe soon!), Sleep (both engaging in, and using as a fall-back topic for neurophysiology term papers), Religion (especially cults), Nature, Trees, Chaos, Programming, contradictions and paradox
Genres: Industrial, Metal, Punk, Classical (Baroque period!). Specific Bands: The Ramones,Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, Rammstein, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Vivaldi, Bach, Stabbing Westward, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Evanescence
Dr. Strangelove, Fight Club, What Dreams May Come, Star Wars (Empire Strikes Back), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the old movie, though I do love Tim Burton films and Johhny Depp), The Princess Bride, Silence of the Lambs, Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction, The Godfather, Shrek, Sneakers, Donnie Darko, Ghostbusters
I don't watch much TV in general, but here's a sample: ST:DS9, B5, Family Guy, Futurama, The Simpsons, Southpark, various Anime, Law and Order (Over and over and over...), I've practically memorized every program on the History Channel, INVADER ZIM
Fantasy (Zelazny's Amber), Science Fiction (Dune), History, Philosophy (Epistemology, Logic), Science (Cognitive Science, Physics, Evolution and Complexity, Neuroscience), 19th Century Continental Literature (Dumas, Hugo, Goethe, Dostoevsky), Comics (Superman sucks, all hail Batman!), Poetry (Roethke, Frost, Poe), Plays/Drama
Actual People:
SRA (Late mentor);
Diogenes of Sinope (Just for being freakin' cool);
David Hume (Commit it to the flames, baby!);
Fictional:
Satan (Has nachos, better music, easier women);
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth;
IM ComradeKain