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Those who give a damn.And you should meet this fellow: Andreas Kapsaslis
I enjoy any style of music, if performed well. I love to help local bands, and I have a degree in music education.
Dr. Strangelove, Donny Darko, movies by/including members of Monty Python, Spinal Tap, The President's Analyst, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harold and Maude, Trainspotting, Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, The Notebook, What Dreams May Come, The Princess Bride, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Sting, Waterboys (Japaneese Film), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The House of Flying Daggers, Desperado & El Mariachi; Run, Lola, Run; Pi, Stigmata, Clerks films, Heathers, Breakfast Club, Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels, Conspiracy Theory, Vampire Hunter D, Ghost in the Shell, Pixar films, The Short List, The Usual Suspects, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, Momento, the Matrix, American Beauty, M Butterfly, Carmen, any Fosse film, Amadeus, Immortal Beloved, the Violin, the Piano, Tango, Fargo, Starwars, Indiana Jones, Ghost Busters, Any Mel Brooks, Invw with a Vampire, B.S. Dracula, Lynch movies, Claymation movies (except Mr. Bill and Gumbie-sorry folks)...the list goes on. I like a ton of cult, foreign, b and clever humor. If it's got a conspiracy, that's even better.
The Charlie Rose Show: best interviews on Television, Period.
OK, this is FAR worse than movies. Here goes: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Wrinkle in Time series, Farenheit 451, anything Kurt Vonnegut; Ender's Game, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanance, Atlas Shrugged, Stranger in a Strange Land, 4 Seasons Novella, Anything by Studs Terkel, The Discourses by Machiavelli (HE DIDN'T JUST WRITE THE PRINCE, DAMNIT,) 5 Rings, Art of War, Sun Tsu Was a Sissy, Power, Art of Seduction, any book Julian gives/lends me, Transmetropolitan (It's a graphic novel. I'm a geek. Biiiig Geek) A Wrinkle in Time series, Farenheit 451, Kurt Vonnegut whatever, A Clockwork Orange, The Difference Engine, Coyotee Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad; e: a Novel, Ann Rice novels (OH, SHUTUP.) Various philosophy, Some bio's, including Chuck Amuck which I am reading right now, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle books, anything by C.S. Lewis, books set in Chicago, Tom Wolfe books, The Divine Comedy, Carmina Catulli (I'm a naughty girl,) Dostoyevski if I'm depressed, One Hundred Years of Solitude is BEAUTIFUL, Faust, Shakespeare in general, A Tale of Two Cities, Gulliver's Travels, Catch 22, anything by Twain, A Thousand and One Nights, Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, The Monkey, Don Dellio books, Mists of Avalon, Arthurian legends and spin-offs, Asimov books, Big Trouble and other Dave Barry...oh, just sit me in a library. I'd be happy.
As of the moment, I have no heroes. It's just God, Me, and it's Anyone that's along for the ride.