Pretty much everything! Spending time with family and friends, writing, reading, spending time online, my iPod, poetry (mostly writing), art, collecting books/DVDs, video games, RPGs, chess, science in general, philosophy (of religion mostly), intellectual conversations and debates, the movies, dining out, traveling, hiking, camping, the beach, playing acoustic guitar (I try to anyhow!), scuba diving (even though it's been several years since I last went!)...
MY DEAR SON TYLER
Final Fantasy Rocks!!!
"Chess is mental torture." Garry Kasparov
I love taking pictures of nature...
I'd like to meet:
Someone open-minded, intelligent and with a good sense of humor. Someone perpetually curious, whose hunger for knowledge is never satiated. Someone always seeking to improve both relationship with self and others. Someone who enjoys meaningful conversations and is emotionally perceptive. Someone with creativity, imagination and who shares similar interests as me. The most important thing, however, is that it’s someone with whom I can get along naturally and have fun. FUN, FUN, FUN! Spontaneity and creativity catalyze the fun component of love's myriad chemical reactions. And, being a chemist, I’m quite proficient in that respect, and, being cool (ummm…oh, yeah, that part comes from my name), I could quell the reaction—cool it down if it gets too hot and out of control! Was that cheesy? Yes. Creative? Perhaps. An effective pick-up line? No!
Right now, however, I'm trying to focus more on myself before I get into any sort of serious relationship.
DRAGONS ARE COOL!
Music:
Alternative/indie, techno, metal, hard rock, classic rock, reggae and jazz.
All-time favorite bands: ALKALINE TRIO, BLOODHOUND GANG, BLUE MAN GROUP, CAKE, THE CRYSTAL METHOD, DAFT PUNK, DEPECHE MODE, THE FAINT, FLEETWOOD MAC, FOO FIGHTERS, GREEN DAY, HEAVENS, INTERPOL, LED ZEPPELIN, MARILYN MANSON, METALLICA, NEW ORDER, NINE INCH NAILS, NIRVANA, PRODIGY, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, RUSH, SMASHING PUMPKINS, THE STROKES, SUBLIME, SYSTEM OF A DOWN
Other favorites: 80s music, AC/DC, Arctic Monkeys, B-52s, Beck, Blink-182, Bloc Party, Blur, Chemical Brothers, the Clash, Coldplay, the Cure, Cranberries, Death Cab for Cutie, Deftones, Dirty Pretty Things, Duran Duran, Erasure, Fatboy Slim, Fischerspooner, Frank Zappa, Franz Ferdinand, Goo Goo Dolls, Gorillaz, Guns ‘n Roses, Hellogoodbye, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani, Junkie XL, Keane, the Killers, Live, Meat Beat Manifesto, Moby, Modest Mouse, the Moog, Mylo, Nightmare of You, No Doubt, the Pale, Pink Floyd, POD, Queensryche, the Ramones, REM, Santana, She Wants Revenge, Sum 41, Tom Petty, the Vines, Weezer, the White Stripes, Wolfmother
Paranoiattack--THE FAINT
Movies:
Better Off Dead, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Moving Violations, Revenge of the Nerds, Top Secret, Tron, War Games, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Cheech 'n Chong, 40-year Old Virgin, The Princess Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Goonies, Star Wars series, Terminator series, Indiana Jones Trilogy, The Road Warrior/Mad Max sequels, Full Metal Jacket, Braveheart, Troy, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Prozac Nation, K-Pax, Finding Neverland, Sleepy Hollow, Pi, A Beautiful Mind, Monster, Girl Interrupted, Blow, The Shining, Carrie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist, Halloween, Amityville Horror, The Exorcist, The Notebook, The God Who Wasn’t There, Bowling for Columbine.
Favorite actors/actresses: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Kate Winslett and Jack Nicholson.
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Television:
Beavis and Butthead, Venture Brothers, the Simpsons, Land of the Lost, George Carlin, SNL, Comedy Central (Dave Chappelle show rocks!), Outrageous and Contagious Viral Videos, Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, the Learning, Discovery, History and Travel Channels, Cops and Fear Factor. On Sunday mornings, I usually watch Benny Hinn or some other televangelist. Triumph the Insult Dog from Conan O’Brien also rocks.
I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO!!!
Books:
Anything and everything: general science, organic and pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, biology, astronomy, geology, physics, history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, religion, languages, anthropology and, fiction, of course, just to name a few. Some favorites:
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Atheism: The Case Against God (George Smith), Cosmos (Carl Sagan), Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution (Douglas Futuyma), The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (Nathaniel Branden), The Art of Living Consciously (Nathaniel Branden), Feeling Good (David Burns), Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky), Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe), Island of the Blue Dolphins, Zia, The King’s Fifth (all by Scott O’dell), Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean Auel series), The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway), The Call of the Wild (Jack London), the Odyssey (Homer).
The spiral galaxy Messier 101
The tarantula nebula
Heroes:
My siblings, an old friend of mine from Junior High (you know who you are!), Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Mohandas Gandhi, Dan Barker, Richard Dawkins, Penn and Teller, Peter Leko, Judit Polgar, Frank Zappa, Marilyn Manson, Stevie Nicks, Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp, the ancient Egyptians and the Greeks, many of the great thinkers, artists and scientists of the Renaissance period…oh, I almost forgot: my mom and dad...NOT!.....and anyone of you who actually had the courage/perseverance to read all of this!
