i used to play in bands: towel, tallow, bashed little monkey, men's recovery project. now, aside from the occassional drunken jam session, i usually play music with my 12 year-old nephew and 6 year-old niece (man, can those kids put away the mickey's) or write gentle country-folk guitar songs that noone will ever hear. i'm into photography. here's my flickr page:http://www.flickr.com/photos/sudden_applebottom/
science nerds, good conversationalists (cause i talk real good), people who like to be photographed, artsy-fartsy types, salt of the earth types, clever people, dull-witted clods with easily blown minds for ego-gratification purposes.
my all time favs are simon and garfunkel and judas priest. i like music. all kinds. except pop-punk.
some of my favs: gregory's girl, world according to garp, scorcese, jarmusch, kubrick, kurosawa, korean and french and japanese. stupid comedies, action movies, movies to pass the time, sci-fi, tear-jerkers, serenity, zardoz.
i don't watch much t.v these days but i love cooking shows. i prefer the ones on pbs, but i'll watch the food network if i've got cable. i usually just watch stuff online. daily show, meet the press. i could watch c-span for days. open mind, political wonk shit, nova, science shows. i loved bill nye, the science guy and i watched 3-2-1 contact well into my twenties. when i was a kid, back in the early eighties, channel 11, wpix in new york would run this call-in video game after school. a kid would call in and then a ufo would fly across the screen and intersect a static crosshairs in the center of the screen. you were supposed to say 'pix!' to shoot at the ufo. some kids were good, but more often than not, the kid would just endlessly repeat, in a mindless monotone, 'pix, pix, pix, pix, pix,' and not shoot a damn thing. it's one of my fondest t.v. memories.
mostly science stuff, cognitive sci mostly, but physics, math, tech, ai, and bio as well. i'm open to almost anything in print. old sci-fi, pynchon, delaney, dick, leguin, vonnegut, mitchell, wallace, asimov, dennet, churchland, searle, faulkner, short story anthologies, contemporary fiction, essays, pre-post, post, post-post and meta.
mom, gramma gussie