I read a lot...A LOT (see below).... Aside from that I like to go to the movies--comedies are my favorite, followed by action; I'm not a big fan of horror flicks.... I'm a frequent patron of the Improvs in Irvine, Brea and Ontario. Drinking with friends is always fun, too.... I spend a lot of my free time with my family (because there are so many of them).
I'd like to meet:
People who can make me laugh, or at least people I can make fun of......
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Music:
Aerosmith, Audioslave, Bach, Bad Religion, Billy Joel, Blink 182, Buddy Holly, Cake, Celia Cruz, Chopin, Chuck Berry, Dean Martin, Dropkick Murphys, Elvis Presley, Fall Out Boy, Flogging Molly, Frank Sinatra, Gipsy Kings, Green Day, Inspector, Jelly Roll Morton, Juanes, Johnny Cash, La Sonora Dinamite, Led Zeppelin, Linkin Park, Mana, Marty Robbins, Mozart, Nirvana, No Doubt, Offspring, Oingo Boingo, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen, Sam Cooke, Santana, Social Distortion, Steppenwolf, Sublime, Tchaikovsky, Thalia, They Might Be Giants, Tito Puente, Vivaldi, Weird Al Yankovic, ZZ Top
Movies:
Billy Madison, Born in East L.A., Clue, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, the Corpse Bride, Dodgeball, Dogma, Enemy Mine, Escape From the Planet of the Apes, Happy Gilmore, Garden State, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Jurassic Park, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Nightmare Before Christmas, Pirates of the Caribbean, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Planet of the Apes (1968), Rat Race, Renaissance Man, Return of the Jedi, Short Circuit (1 and 2), Spaceballs, Stardust, Summer School, the Three Musketeers, Tommy Boy, True Lies, V for Vendetta, Wedding Crashers, Young Frankenstein
Television:
The Apprentice, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Avatar: the Last Airbender, Desperate Housewives, ER, Family Guy, Farscape, Fawlty Towers, Futurama, the George Lopez Show, House, Monty Python's Flying Circus, My Name is Earl, the Office, Samurai Jack, Scrubs, Seinfeld, the Simpsons, South Park, Survivor, Waiting for God
Books:
I read so many freakin' books it's hard to pick my favorites.... I tend to read a lot of philosophy, history and political books....100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, 1984, Animal Farm, Beyond Good and Evil, the Count of Monte Cristo, Finding Darwin's God, the Handbook, the Hannibal Trilogy (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal), the Island of Dr. Moreau, King Lear, Les Miserables, Macbeth, the Moral Animal, Nichomachean Ethics, the Prince, One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Origin of Species, the Sword of Truth Series, the Universe is a Single Atom, Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Heroes:
I have a few...my paternal grandparents, for starters. They're in their seventies and they have a more active social life than I do! They don't seem like old people! I hope to be as vital and active as they are when I reach that age. My other hero was my high school honors Chemistry teacher, Dr. Steven Ebert, a brilliant and funny man in the latter stages of Parkinson's Disease. He taught me a lot of things, particularly the importance of persistence in the face of adversity.
