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Outdoor grilling. Science at the molecular level. Entertaining friends with food and drink. Biotech. Connecting with new people. Karaoke.
Wacky funsters like yourself!
Lou Reed, Stan Ridgeway, Peter Gabriel, Sheryl Crow. More recently I've been introduced to alt-country/roots/Americana. Saw Johnny Cash perform live in West Berlin way back when.
Being John Malkovich, The Big Lebowski, Map of the Human Heart, Sin City, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Raising Arizona, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, and too many others to mention.
Deadwood, The L Word, Six Feet Under, Smallville (guilty pleasure).
Chuck Palahniuk "Lullabye", Carolyn Parkhurst "The Dogs of Babel", Donna Tartt "The Secret History", any and all Kurt Vonnegut especially "Breakfast of Champions". Nonfiction: Daniel Nettle "Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile", Shane Grotty "Ahead of the Curve - David Baltimore's Life in Science". Working on Jared Diamond's "Guns Germs & Steel" and Barak Obama's "Dreams from my Father".
Free thinkers: Arthur C. Clarke, Buckminster Fuller, Kerry Mullis (1/2 a Nobel Prize ain't bad), Craig Venter (Celera Genomics), Jim Kent (father of the UCSC Genome Browser), Crick (not so much Watson). Entertainers: John Cameron Mitchell (author/director/star of Hedwig & The Angry Inch), Quentin Tarantino, Howard Stern, and Ron Jeremy. Comedians: Jim Gaffigan ("yeah, right Sea Cow!"), Patton Oswalt, Emo Philips.