Favorite Forms of Entertainment, hobbies, and general interests: the art of conversation; teaching; occasional clubbing; watching movies either in theater, from Netflix or my collection; asking questions that belong without an answer, such as: “What happens when a tigger drinks gummi berry juice?â€; cigar/cigarette/pipe smoking; coffee; keeping up with friends and celebrities on the internet as well as making new ones; MySpace; collecting: money, power, allies, treasure, esoteric wisdom, military secrets, computer parts, and miscellaneous titles; tinkering with my computer; aviation; astronomy; astrology; architecture; engineering; nuclear physics; history; the military; fireworks; martial arts; digital photography; snow; boating; hiking and camping; education; showering; survival; magick and spirituality; zoos; web surfing; building my web pages and AD&D campaigns; playing my favorite games; being a DL; shopping/people watching at the mall; theme parks; museums; daydreaming; food; HO railroading; drinking at least three cups of coffee at a diner; listening to music; reading; winning; and yanking my fucking chain.
I'd like to meet:
Anybody who wants to speak with me of high-minded matters. Please knock before you walk into my dream and leave your dogma and ego at the door on the rack provided, and if you're going to drink I'll take your keys as well. If you leave your baggage by the door, and Caravaggio will be by to pick it up.
Music:
Favorite Musicians (The ones whom I like just about all of their stuff): Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Police, Gordon Bok (with or without Ed Trickett and Ann Mayo Muir), Silly Wizard, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Old Blind Dogs, Ta lki n ghe ads, RUSH, Enigma, The Beatles, Front Line Assembly, The Offspring, Blackmore’s Night, Adiemus, and Chumbawamba.
Second Favorites (Ones that have a few good songs): The Rolling Stones, Enya (Oronoco Flow), Dire Straits, Kansas (Dust in the Wind), Ozzy Ozborne/Black Sabbath, Charlie Daniel’s Band (Devil Went Down to Georgia), The Moody Blues (Days of Future Passed), Supertramp, Warren Zevon (Werewolves of London), The Who, Yes, Zbigniew Preisner, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Marty Simon, Thomas Newman (Lemony Snicket's A Unfortunate Series of Events soundtrack: Drive Away), James Horner, Michael Kaman, Nerf Herder (Buffy intro), Don Henley, Dan Folgelburg (Longer), Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, U2, Blues Traveler, Homegrown, REM, Heart, Blondie, Steeler’s Wheel (Here I am, Stuck in the Middle With You), ZZ Top, AC~DC, Kiss, Guns N’ Roses, The Doors, Pearl Jam, Bob Marley, Elvis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Carly Simon, STP, Leonard Skynard, Phil Collins/Genesis, Styx, ELO, CCR, CSN[w/wo Y], Bare Naked Ladies, Fatboy Slim, America, Deep Purple, Mungo Jerry (In the Summertime), Shaggy, Will Smith, Boys to Men, Blue Oyster Cult, Arlo Guthrie & Pat Quinn (Alice’s Restaurant), Dread Zepplin (Christmas in Las Vegas), Doobie Brothers, B-52’s, Madonna, Kim Carnes (Bette Davis Eyes), Def Leppard, Grateful Dead, Men Without Hats or At Work, Dead or Alive (You Spin Me Round), Duran Duran, Georgia Satellites (Keep Your Hands to Yourself), Nena (99 Red Balloons), Suzan Vega (Tom’s Dinner), Taco (Puttin on the Ritz), Bob Seager, The Cure, Eddy Grant (Electric Avenue), Steve Miller Band (Fly Like an Eagle), Bobby McFerrin, Alanis Morissette, “Weird Al†Yankovic, Dr. Demento, The Monty Python Troup, Every song from the Pure Moods I collection and from the Civilization II game, Diamond Doug’s Musical Ministry, Dave Mathews Band, No Doubt, Moby, Freezepop (Plastic Stars), Bangles, Paul Simon (You Can Call me Al), Proclaimers (I will walk 500 miles), Tony Bennett (The Best is Yet to Come), Steely Dan, Bad Company (Feel Like Making Love), Alexa Vega (Isle of Dreams), Dexies Midnight Runners (Come on Eileen), Eurythmics (Sweet Dreams), Fine Young Cannibals (She Drives me Crazy), Foghat (Slow Ride), Sting, Four Non-Blondes (What’s Going On), George Thuroughgood, Frank Zappa, Jimmy Buffet, The Clash (Rock the Casaba), Love Spit Love (How Soon is Now), Dead Milkmen, Norman Greenbaum (Spirit in the Sky), Mandy Moore (Stupid Cupid), Alien Ant Farm (Smooth Criminal), Aqua (Barbie Girl), Avalanches (Frontier Psychiatry), Tina Turner, Queen, The Hooters, Tom Petti, Aerosmith, Indigo Girls (Closer I am to Fine), Rusted Root (Hold My Hand), Smash Mouth, Blur (Blur Song), DaRude (Sandstorm), Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (Cool Yule), Seal (Kiss From a Rose), Gary Jules (Mad World), Cat Stevens (Peace Train), Lustra (Scotty Doesn’t Know), They Might Be Giants (Istanbul), Modest Mouse, Manheim Steamroller, Kevin Bloody Wilson (Ho Ho Fucking Ho), Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Peter Paul & Mary (A Soalin’), The Cruxshadows, FLatRich, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Carl Orff, Inkubus Sukubus, Danny Gomez, John Huckleberry, Lindsay Lohan, Big Kenny, Bear McCreary, Andy Stewart, Panic! At the Disco, Jonnie Hardie, Deaf Shepherd, Porno For Pyros (Pets), Hong Kong Cavaliers, Bob Rivers (All You Need is Elves), Voltaire, and Passion Killers (Feel like I’m Fixin’ to Die).
Movies:
Favorite Movies: All of the Star Wars movies (particularly the odd numbered ones); The Terminator series; Jurassic Park; The Secret Garden (1993 w Kate Maberly); The Professional; The first five Harry Potter films; the X-Men Series; Popcorn; The Good Son; Aliens; Alien: Resurrection; Poltergeist, Pirates of the Caribbean series; Gladiator; Patton; Braveheart; Titanic; Goonies; Highlander; Jacobs Ladder; Paper House; Neverending Story; The Princess Bride; Labyrinth; Willow; The War; The Sixth Sense; Scream; Blair Witch Project and its sequel; The Ring; Ghost Ship; Contact; The Lethal Weapon series; Crocodile Dundee series; The Indiana Jones series; Romancing the Stone; Usual Suspects, Time Bandits; Spirited Away; From Dusk to Dawn; Dune; The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; Transformers: The Movie; The Matrix series; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Monty Python’s The Meaning of life; Office Space; Little Nicky; Mr. Deeds; Dave; Jersey Girl; Pay it Forward; Jakob the Liar; The Mummy series; Dogma; Shrek; The Count of Monte Cristo (1999 w Gérard Depardieu); Friendship’s Field, Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter’s End; Hideous Kinky; 28 Days or Weeks Later; Shaun of the Dead; In America; American Beauty, Ice Princess, Life as a House; Band of Brothers; Spanglish; The Princess Diaries Series; Air Force One; Boondock Saints; Starship Troopers; The Safety of Objects; The Lion in Winter; Lost in Translation; The Quiet; War of the Worlds; Stardust; Closer and any film shown on an omnimax screen.
Second Favorites (Stuff that’s just good): Just about anything by James Cameron, Bryan Singer, Joss Whedon, Stephen Spielberg, Roger Deakins, or George Lucas as well as Finding Neverland, Mothertime, Deep Impact; Beverly Hills Cop series, Road Warrior series, Home Alone series, Tremors series, The Chronicles of Riddick series, The Bourne series, The First Daughter, My Date with Drew, The Peacemaker, The Devil’s Advocate, Mean Girls, Maverick, Heat, Die Hard series, Kill Bill vol. 2, Apocalypse Now, Shawshank Redemption, Lawrence of Arabia, Levity, When Harry Met Sally, The Parent Trap (w Lindsay Lohan), True Lies, Amistad, Master and Commander, The Lost Boys, Saving Private Ryan, The Day After Tomorrow, Being John Malkovich, Final Countdown, Excalibur, The Fifth Element, Superman series, Evil Dead series, House I & II, IT, Good Morning Vietnam, Crazy Beautiful, Ghost World, Mean Girls, What Women Want, Now and Then, My Girl, Alaska, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, The Hunt for Red October, Ghost Busters, Wes Craven’s Final Nightmare, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Brewster’s Millions, Down Periscope, Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Hannibal, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Lord of the Rings series, Spy Kids series, Aladdin, How the Emperor Got his Grove, Twister, Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon, Bad Santa, Clash of the Titans, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Beetlejuice, The Santa Clause: The Movie, Story Telling Giant, Panic Room, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Red Dawn, Volcano, Big Trouble in Little China, History of the World Part 1, Ocean’s 11, Behind Enemy Lines, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Heavy Metal, Secondhand Lions, Meet Joe Black, Phonebooth, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Signs, The Hole, Timeline, Paper Moon, The Children of Dune, Kingdom of Heaven, Prozac Nation, Invisible Circus, Banger Sisters, The Dark Side of Oz, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Wrinkle in Time, Cheaper by the Dozen, It’s a Beautiful Life, Billboard Dad, Chumscrubber, Candian Bacon, Hotel Rwanda, Thank you for Smoking, Pups, The Transporter series, We Were Soldiers, The Last Mimzy, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Man of the Year, All ten Star Trek movies (particularly the even numbered ones), and just about any old war movie or foreign movie that makes it to over here.
Television:
Favorite Television shows that are all still running (I wish, not that I watch tv that I can’t download anymore): Star Trek: all of them; Starhunter; Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles; Heros; Andromeda; Stargate SG:1; Stargate: Atlantis; As Time Goes By; Hack; Angel; Age of Warriors; Joan of Arcadia; The West Wing; Judging Amy; Tremors; The Simpsons; Futurama; Family Guy; Seventh Heaven; The Dead Zone; The Surreal Life; The OC; Everwood; The Osborne’s; The Invisible Man; The Odyssey; Farscape; Buffy: the Vampire Slayer; Dracula: The Series; Forever Knight; M*A*S*H*; A-Team; Airwolf; Seven Days; VR.5; Misfits of Science; Babylon 5; Red Dwarf; Black Adder; Battlestar Galactica (both); Roseanne; Tour of Duty; Loony Tunes; Night Court; Thin Blue Line; Who’s line is it Anyway?; LEXX; Major Dad; Mr. Belvedere; Kelly Kelly; Boy Meets World; Phoneme; Thunder Ally; The Fresh Prince of Bel Air; Home Improvement; Tool Time; Cheers; Northern Exposure; Sliders; Mr. Bean; Dawn of the Empire; Monty Python’s Flying Circus; The Muppet Show; Trigun; Pirates of Darkwater; Thundarr the Barbarian, The Mysterious Cities of Gold; Danger Mouse; Count Duckula; You Can’t do that on Television; The Olympics; Quantum Leap; Kung Fu, and The Legend Continues; X-Men (the first cartoon); Fantasy Island (the later one); Politically Incorrect; The Three Stooges; Letterman; The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder; Just Shoot Me; Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous; Two of a Kind; So Little Time; Inside the Actor’s Studio; Ballykissangel; Father Dowling; Women’s Gymnastics; BBC world news; NOVA; National Geographic Explorer; Scientific American Frontiers; and just about any documentary or British comedy.
Television shows that I used to love but grew out of: The Mummers Parade; Charmed; Time Trax; Sea Quest and Sea Quest: DSV; Thunder in Paradise; Renegade; Beauty and the Beast; Hogan’s Heroes; V; Buck Rogers; Night Rider; Star Trek; Baywatch; Transformers; G.I. Joe; Scooby Doo; Inspector Gadget; The Cartoon Express which included Space Ghost, Grape Ape, Hurculoids, etc.; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Highlander: The Series, and the Raven; Head of the Class; Full House; Perfect Strangers; Just the Ten of Us; Family Matters; The Cosby Show; Wings; Grand; Double Dare; In Living Color; Saturday Night Live; Love Boat; Stephen Spielberg Presents: Amazing Stories; Friday the 13th: the series; Monsters; Fraser; Newhart; Happy Days; Mr. Ed; Lassie; Dennis the Menace; I Dream of Genie; Bewitched; Batman and Robin; The Brady Bunch; Gilligan’s Island; My Favorite Martian; The Wonder Years; Doogie Howser, M.D.; Matlock; Little House on the Prairie; Private Benjamin; Punky Brewster; Married: With Children; Family Ties; Growing Pains; Silver Spoons; Dukes of Hazard; Three’s Company; Alice; One Day at a Time; The Jefferson’s; All in the Family; Who’s the Boss?; Kate and Ally; The Hogan Family; ALF; James at 16; One by One; Out of Control; Muppet Babies; Jumanji; Crissyfur; Gummi Bears; Winnie the Pooh; Starblazers; Dungeons and Dragons; Anamanicacs; Tiny Toons; Duck Tales; Tale Spin; Land of the Lost (both of them); Josie and the Pussycats; The Superfriends; The Jetsons; The Flintstones; Mighty Mouse; The Pink Panther; Tom and Jerry; Thundercats; Heathcliff; Casper; Richie Rich; Popeye; The Real Ghostbusters; Courageous Cat; Snorks; Shirt Tails; Captain Caveman; Space Ace; The Great Space Coaster; Sesame Street; and Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood.
Books:
Favorite literature: The Deathgate series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman; The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling; A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin; The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss; Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card; Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle; Journey to the Center of the Earth and War of the Worlds by Jules Verne; The Stand by Stephen King; The Disk World series by Terry Pratchett; Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London; most of the Star Wars series, especially the Rouge Squadron books; Some of the Star Trek books by various authors especially Dreadnought! And Battlestations! By Diane Carey; Final Flight by Stephen Coonts; The Experiment by John Darnton; Dune by Frank Herbert; The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien; The Peanuts comics by Charles Schulz; Tobin’s Spirit Guide; Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine; 777 by Aleister Crowley; Dragonworld by Bryon Preiss and Michael Reaves; Cinderella Hassenpfeffer by Dave Morrah; a few poems by T. S. Eliot; short stories by Ambrose Bierce, and especially The Devil’s Dictionary; When I was younger I greatly enjoyed the Ramona Quimby series and other books by Beverly Cleary; Psych 101 by Jack A. Cohen, Ph.D.; and Modern Magick Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts by Donald Michael Kraig.
Heroes:
People or characters who have had the greatest impact on my present personality and perspective: The music of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull; Allison “Jazzy†Parker; My Grandpa (Evans); My Mother; Magus Perdé; a high priest of Egypt; ‘Uncle’ Rick; Dave; Mike Yammer/Bob; Mr. Rublinger; Dr. Jack Cohen; Doug Brookins; Michael Corbett; Jennifer Victoria Smith; The Enterprise NCC 1701 (pre A, A, and D); Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn; Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Cos Palpatine; Kelly Spina; Jackie; Sir.
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