Longboarding, swing dancing, karate, manga, a good cup of black coffee, Asian Cinema, living history, baking pies, looking under the hoods of muscle cars, writing, Snow, cosplay, pin hole photography, pyrotechnics, green tea, brake dance fighting, Yoga, Renaissance Faire, drift car racing, rare books, indy music shows, Saturday morning cartoons, Roller Derby, magical second hand stores, pancakes for dinner and social commentary laced with wicked satire for breakfast.
Interesting people, all sorts. I'm low drama.
I have a varied and diverse taste in music. Especially fond of southland indy, trip hop, acid metal, bayou blues, folk, jazz you can dance to, trance you shouldn't dance to, hair band ballads, 80 one hits, classical, yacht rock, and old school punk rock.
Current top 5 are: Seven Samurai, Boondock Saints, Shaun of the Dead, Singing In the Rain, and Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera.
Top 5 are: Doctor Who, The Venture Brothers, Dexter, Burn Notice and Heroes.
It's easier to name Authors: Steven King, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Tom Clancy, Mark Twain, Michael Crickton, Edger Allen Poe, Douglas Adams, et al. Also a huge manga head. Blade of the Immortal, Bleach, Zombie Powder, Samurai Executioner, Gantz, and a few odds and ends to keep me distracted.
My Grandmother, Anthropologist Wade Davis, Humorist Mark Twain, Harry Houdini, Nikola Tesla, Bobbi Trout, Milton Hershey, Vivian Thomas, my aunt Phillis, Hedy Lamaar (brilliant and naked) and a handful of others who tried their damnedest to make a difference in the world just by being themselves.