Writing, music, movies, nature, animals, photography, drumming/guitar/MIDI, podcasting, filmmaking, philosophy, politics, cultures, ecology, astronomy, geography, and travel. Preserving gorillas, dolphins, seals, whales and other great species. Preserving the Earth and other great planets.
I'd like to meet:
Extraordinary people with moral courage and passion, who are truly alive. People who give a damn, and who prove it with action. Vagabonds and Bohemians who understand that without freedom, you are already dead. People who appreciate the natural world, and who try to preserve the habitat that sustains their own life. People who know what real beauty is, and are awestruck by it. People who are part of the solution, not part of the problem. People who eschew the profit-motivated corporate media, and voraciously seek out knowledge from reliable sources instead. People who earn my respect, rather than expecting or demanding it.
People--especially religious people--who truly appreciate what Carl Sagan was saying when he described the life of Johannes Kepler: "When he found that his long-cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions."
Learn the FACTS about "Second-Hand" Smoke
Who Will Repay Our National Debt?
Who Would Jesus Torture?
Music:
Mozart, Beethoven, Woody Guthrie, Sammy Davis Jr., The Beatles, Yardbirds, Love, Love, Spirit, The Hollies, The Electric Prunes, Moby Grape, Vanilla Fudge, The Zombies, Ten Years After, Moody Blues, Neil Young, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Jim Croce, Partridge Family, Chicago, Kansas, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Barry White, KC & The Sunshine Band, Bay City Rollers, Supertramp, Roxy Music, Styx, Meat Loaf, Cheap Trick, Dead Kennedys, Journey, Asia, Blues Brothers, Men at Work, The Police, Rikki Lee Jones, A Flock of Seagulls, Go-Go's, Spinal Tap, Sade, Raspberry Jam, Sometime Sunday, Daniel Amos, Sausage, Sheila E, Refused, Megadeth, Testament, Phish, Suicidal Tendencies, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Slayer, Dream Theater, Ice Cube/NWA, MC Hawking, Alice in Chains, Melvins, Incubus, , Postal Service, Stereolab, Muse, The Soundtrack of our Lives, Secret Machines, Porcupine Tree, Great Big Sea, Squiddo, Christopher Cash, Chris Bearden, Drum and Bugle Corps.
Movies:
Groundhog Day, The Blues Brothers, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, There's Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Kingpin, Get Over It, One Night at McCools, The Gods Must Be Crazy, The Full Monty, A Fish Called Wanda, Real Genius, Spinal Tap, Harry & The Hendersons, Intolerable Cruelty, Spaced Invaders, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Beat the Devil, His Girl Friday, Toy Story 1 & 2, Cacoon, Continental Divide, Return To Me, Iron & Silk, Dr. Strangelove, Becket, Casablanca, Starship Troopers, Terminator I/II/III, Star Wars IV/V/VI, The Matrix, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Oceans 11 (new and original versions), Dances With Wolves, Contact, The Shawshank Redemption, COSMOS and a whole bunch of other documentaries.
Television:
I prefer consciousness over television.
Books:
"Odyssey" (Homer), "The Republic" (Plato), "Declaration of Independence" (Jefferson), "Constitution of the United States of America", "Life Without Principle" (Thoreau), "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" (Le Bon), "The Grapes of Wrath" (Steinbeck), Ishmael (Daniel Quinn), "Rendevouz With Rama" (Arthur C. Clarke), "Zen in the Martial Arts" (Hyams), "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (Adams), "COSMOS" (Carl Sagan), "With Justice For None" (Gerry Spence), "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" (Jerry Mander), anything by Neil Postman, anything by Jacob Needleman. So many more....
Heroes:
Socrates, Alexander of Macedon, William Shakespeare, Johannes Kepler, The Founding Fathers (Jefferson, Paine, Hancock, Madison, Adams, Washington, Henry et al.), Henry David Thoreau, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Sammy Davis Jr., Bill Gaines (founder of MAD Magazine), Richard Feynman, Jane Goodall, Penny Patterson, Noam Chomsky, Bill Hicks, Neil Postman, Jacob Needleman, Stephen Rowe, Rush (the band), The Rude Guy , anyone who exposes junk science, and anyone who RESISTS!
R.I.P Michael, 1973-2000
