I am married, straight, M.O.T., 5'11'', person of non-color. I have an amazing wife and a toddler girl who owns me. Life is good. And I dig wine, in case you couldn't tell.
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Interests include: Family, friends, and pugs first. Then, other interests: wines; reading; hitting the gym; cyberlaw; Social Project/Flux/TagWorld; my nano; UCLA; ethnic sweets; renewable energy policies; retro stuff; First Motion Picture Unit; Halloween; the end of the 2008 Presidential election cycle.
Eclectic is the word: Queen; G&R; Devo; Tenacious D; 2-Pac; Bowie; George Harrison and those other 3 guys; Thin Lizzy; Curtis Mayfield; Billy Preston; America; Jon Brion; Boingo; Lalo Schifrin; Carpenters; Misfits; Wondermints; Brian Wilson; Paul Williams; The Doors; MacDermot, Rado, and Ragni; Ohio Players; Howard Shore; X; Foo Fighters; U2; The Police; '60s and '70s pop; Velvet Underground/early Lou Reed; Shatner; Arlo Guthrie; Joni Mitchell; Metallica; Rodrigo; Segovia; Dr. Dre; some Eminem; early Ice-T; Ice Cube; Cheap Trick; George Carlin; Steve Martin; Richard Pryor; Cheech & Chong; Sam Kinison; Rodney Dangerfield; Sex Pistols; Suicidal Tendencies; Taj Mahal; Scatman Crothers; Cab Calloway; Sinatra; Donovan; Steely Dan/Donald Fagen; Natalie Merchant/10,000 Maniacs; Madness; The Shins; Mozart; Jane's Addiction; Beastie Boys (esp. Paul's Boutique); Genesis/Collins/ Gabriel; Schoolhouse Rock; Seu Jorge; Johnny Cash; Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters.
Almost anything by (not in order of preference): Tarantino; Paul Thomas Anderson; Mel Brooks; Woody Allen; Blake Edwards; Jerry Lewis; John Landis; Harold Ramis; Spike Jonze; George A. Romero and other zombie movies; Clint Eastwood; John Carpenter; Spielberg; Ridley Scott; Michael Mann; Cameron; Martha Coolidge; Walt Disney; Richard Donner; Terry Gilliam; Francis, Sofia, and Roman Coppola; Demme; Martin Scorsese; Coen Bros; Milos Forman; Wim Wenders; Kubrick; Zemeckis; Peter Jackson; M. Night Shyamalan; Robert Wise; Rod Serling; Oliver Stone; Jim Henson; Chuck Jones; Tex Avery; Ub Iwerks; Max Fleischer and Winsor McCay. Also: The Discovery Channel; The Science Channel; Food Network. Classic movies starring: Bruce Lee; Don Knotts; Vincent Price; Godzilla; Christopher Lee; Gene Hackman; and more. Star Trek; The Marx Brothers; Superman; 80's brat pack; HBO (Sopranos, Entourage (LHIOB), Six Feet Under, From the Earth to the Moon); 24; cable news...
And Happy Hannukah, Merry Christmas, and a Happy Pinot Noir!
Changing the wine world.
A Man on the Moon (Chaikin); anything else about space exploration and cosmology, especially Carl Sagan; Fighting Terrorism (Netanyahu); 2001: filming the future (Bizony); Stephen King; Leon Uris; Stephen Baxter; Robert Frost; Ray Bradbury; Stephen Ambrose; Philip K. Dick; Frank Herbert; Dr. Theodor Geisel; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Charles Bukowski; Roald Dahl; Michael Chabon; Art Today (Faulkner & Ziegfeld); Forrest J. Ackerman; Grand Royal (all 6 issues); EC Comics; WIRED; Fast Company; Skeptical Inquirer; Don't Eat This Book (Spurlock); Zagat; nutrition labels; street signs; fine-print boilerplate; album liner notes; CNET; Drudge; Federal and State codes; Westlaw; Lexis.
Anybody who gets up each day, does their job well, raises their family with love, believes in their country, and moves through the world with integrity. It's not about being an astronaut, athlete, teacher, first responder, movie star (although it can be). It's about character.