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Shayne

All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door

About Me



My Interests

Wit, wisdom, humor, creativity; intelligent conversation as well as sometimes meaningless conversation; current events; anything that makes me laugh or think; brainstorming; discovering new places; guitars and music in general; finding beauty in nature; reading; Relay for Life; art: creating it, looking at it; insomnia; baseball; St. Louis Cardinals and Springfield Cardinals; plants; XM radio; politics; McAlister's sweet tea; kindness and compassion in others; pondering life; photographs; thrift stores; animals; antiques; long walks; Starbucks; meeting interesting and intriguing people.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people..!

Music:

Nickel Creek, The Killers, Norah Jones, Better than Ezra, SRV, Bryan Sutton, Tony Rice, TOOL, Jamiroquai, Bob Dylan, John Scofield, Coltrane, The Eagles, Depeche Mode, Rage Against the Machine, Blue October, Snow Patrol, Jerry Reed, Journey, Cadillac Sky, Husker Du, Oingo Boingo, John Mayer, Clarence White, Sarah McLachlan, REM, Devo, Johnny Cash, Eric Johnson, Brian Setzer, Minutemen, AKUS, The Police, CCR, Acoustic Alchemy, Ricky Skaggs, Iron and Wine, The Fixx, Violent Femmes, William Shatner, New Order, Kansas, The Osborne Brothers, Talking Heads, David Grier, Psychedelic Furs, Dido, Rush

Movies:

Life as a house, Shawshank Redemption, Inherit the Wind, 25th Hour, We Were Soldiers, Animal House, Awakenings, Tommy Boy, Field of Dreams, Fight Club, American Beauty, Serendipity, The Notebook, What Dreams May Come, Glory, The Sandlot, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kung Fu Hustle, Repo Man, Erasurehead, American Wedding, Raising Arizona, Back to the Future, The Goonies, Stand by Me, Ferris Bueller, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Can't Buy Me Love, Vision Quest, Star Wars, Valley Girl, Fast times at Ridgemont High, A Bug's Life, Caddy Shack, Christmas Vacation, Major League, Airplane, Pulp Fiction, The Shining, Fletch, Fletch lives, Smokey and the Bandit, Walk the Line, An Inconvenient Truth

Television:

LOST, The Office, The Daily Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Seinfeld, Discovery Channel, Cardinals baseball, SNL, Survivor Man, Food Network

Books:

All-time favorites: A Wrinkle in Time, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Where the Red Fern Grows, Fahrenheit 451, The Grapes of Wrath. In more recent years I've read mostly non-fiction books, mostly political and current events.

Heroes:

My Dad...