I enjoy, and practice when possible, live-steel sword fighting, bare-knuckle and NHB events, Karate kumite and kobudo, marksmanship and combat pistolcraft, strongman events, primitive living skills, and traditional as well as stick-bow (primitive) archery. I also write poetry, draw and 'paint' with pastels, practice caligraphy, make papier mache sculptures and masks, and play abit with embroidery. I'm currently practicing with crayons to develop a technique of fine art with that medium. I am a student of human nature. I am an avid seeker and scholar of human sexuality both in text and in practice. I make love every day and have sex just as often. I'm a devotee of making love with my mouth. And there is nothing like slow, tender, lovemaking. Never the less, a good hard fuck with some slaps and hair pulling can be delicious. A gift from the Divine that touches on the Divine. It is all good. In the same physicality, I also really dig fisticuffs. I'll throw down with anyone, anywhere, anytime. A good fist-fight is fun for all. For my intellectual masturbation I read at least two hours a day, everyday. It is not enough. Fiction and non-fiction - natural history, texts on cosmology, and varous works on intellectual history are fodder for my cerebral pyre. Likes: Anarchy. Utopia. The color black. Sex, sexuality, and sexual tension. My hot wife. Being sweaty. Cool sheets. My children's smiles. Salvidor Dali and Pablo Picasso. Hot tea. Butterfly Kisses from My Little Girls. Pirates and Piracy. Being a Pirate. Egyptian, Sumer-Babylonian, Tuetonic, Celtic, and Indo-European Mythology. Voyeurism. Biting. Being alone, and wide awake, at 4 am. Thunder and lightning. Sex in the morning. Salty Margaritas on the Rocks. Repose in silence. Texas Chili. Cheese Glorious Cheese. Reptiles and Spiders. Nocturnal Life. Tats. Tobasco's and Hot Sauces. Piercings On Pink Parts. Corsets. Short Skirts. Pale Skin. A Strip Tease. Herbal people. Noam Chomsky essays. Datura flowers. The smell of rain. Confirmation of a hypothesis. Kinkiness. All things Asian. Buckminster Fuller. Flying While Sleeping. Innuendo. NY Style Pizza. Origami and Papier Mache. A good fist-fight. Omar Khayam. Tennessee Whiskey & Bourbon, George Dickel. Libraries and Book Stores. Lucid Dreaming. A sharp witted opponent. Monty Python. Intelligent People. The Internet. Eggplant Parmigiana. Ice Cold Beer. The Beauty of Women.
Enoch, The Princess Pharoah Hatshepsut, Hammurabi, Moses, Sargon I, Cyrus the Great, Solon, Alexander the Great, Aesop, Hippocrates, Xenophon, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Siddhartha Buddha, Confucius, Octavius Augustus Caesar, Cicero, Caius Julius Caesar, Jesus, Pliny The Elder, Pedacious Dioscordes, Plutarch, Diogenes, Armenius, Jerome, St. Augustine, Agricola, Queen Boedacia, Cleopatra, Sun Tzu, The Venerable Bede, Saint Francis of Assisi, Abu Ali a-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina (Avicenna - Wrote 'The Canon of Medicine'), Genghis Kahn, Tamerlane, The Prophet Muhammad, John of Salisbury, Roger Bacon, Leonardo Di Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton, St. Thomos Aquinas, Leif Erikson, Sir John Cabot, Christopher Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh, Queen Elizabeth, Powhatan, Thomas Jefferson, Captains Lewis & Clarke, Sacajewea, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, George Washington, Timothy Murphy, Daniel Boone, Andrew Jackson, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Deaf Smith, Jim Bowie, The Privateer Lafitte, Arthur Rackham, Blackbeard, Bonnie Read, Davy Crocket, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Tecumseh Sherman, Sitting Bull, Seneca, Santanta, Cochise, Liver Eating Johnson, Daidoji Yuzan, Miyamoto Musashi, Chojun Miyagi, Gichen Funakoshi, Sword Master Tesshu, Mas Oyama, Captain Cook, Frederick Neitschze, Thor Heyerdahl, Ghandi, Mother Theresa, Dr. Martin Luther King, Che Gueverra, Fidel Castro, Hemmingway, and MOST CERTAINLY Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton.
All of it. None of it. I prefer silence with my thoughts.
Philadelphia, Kagemusha, Sling Blade, Farewell My Concubine, Pulp Fiction, Billy Elliot, Moulin Rouge, Groundhog Day, Pleasantville, Amistad, Blade Runner, Dead Man Walking, Romeo + Juliet, Flawless, The Mission, Night of the Iguana, Last of the Mohicans, The Elephant Man, A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Fight Club, A Dry White Season, Biko, Little Shop of Horrors, Cool Hand Luke, Princess Bride, The Swimmer, The Matrix, 8 1/2, The Commitments, Dawn of the Dead, The English Patient, To Kill a Mockingbird, Eraserhead, Immortal Beloved, Little Big Man, Lonesome Dove, The Shawshank Redemption, Michael Collins, The Pawnbroker, Lord of the Rings, The Road Warrior, Spiderman, Unbreakable, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Mr. Roberts, Young Frankenstein, The Fourth Protocol, Mr. Holland's Opus, Shine, Going My Way, Master & Commander, Becket, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Some Like it Hot, Alien, Das Boot, Raising Arizona, Amadeus, The Pillow Book, Napoleon Dynamite, Magnolia, Jesus Christ Superstar
I've never been a TV watcher. I threw the television out over a decade ago. I can't stand its corporate stink or the mind-numbing drivel; cultural detritus.
My library is a modest representation of my tastes. Reference, Mythology and Religion, Folklore, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Archaeology, Anthropology, Sociology, Gender Studies, Sexuality and Erotology, General History, Ancient Near-East History, Egyptology, Classical Studies, Byzantium History, The Medieval Period, The Reformation and Renaissance, Exploration and Discovery, Area Studies of Britain, Ireland, Latin America, China, Asia, The Balkans, Russia, Germany, France, and Spain. General American History, American Colonial History, The American Revolution, American Expansionism, Mountain Men and Pioneers, Gunfighters and The Old West, The Civil War and Reconstruction, 20th Century America, Presidential Biographies, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Science and Technology, Biology, Evolutionary Studies, Natural History, Entomology, Classic Literature, Nobel Prize Winning Authors, Pulitzer Prize Winning Authors, Academy Francais Authors, Prix Goncourt Winners, Booker Prize Winners, Whitbread Prize Winners, Nebulae Award Winners, and Poe Award Winners.
Those who stand for justice against oppression. Those rare individuals who follow their own drummer. Those who live their life with courage and reason. Jesus, Martin Luther, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Jefferson, Wolfe Tone, Jean Lafitte, Andrew Jackson, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, Ghandi, Michael Collins, Martin Neihmoller, Deitrich Bonhoffer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Martin Luther King, Thor Heyerdahl, Edward Abbey.