roller derby, reading, paintball, scuba, movies, music, guitar, singing, dancing, scifi/fantasy, computers/technology, et cetera. Jack of many trades, king of none
Music:
Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo .
There's not much I don't like besides what passes for country and top 40. Genres I dig are: classic rock, 80's, new wave, experimental, alternative, progressive, electronica, techno, dance, big band, goth, industrial, metal, hiphop, rap, bass, r and b, jazz, blues, bolero, mariachi, reggae, ska, punk, hardcore, opera, classical, western ballads, drinking songs, traditional Irish, covers and remixes. CDs I own: Alice In Chains, Tori Amos, Beastie Boys, Beck, David Bowie, Delerium, Depeche Mode, 808 State, Front 242, Garbage, Green Day, High Performance, Ice-T, Information Society, KLF, KMFDM, Kraftwerk, Live, Madonna, Man Or Astroman, Metallica, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Primus, Portishead, Prodigy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Marty Robbins, Sisters of Mercy, Smashing Pumpkins, Sublime, Tammerlin, They Might Be Giants, Type O Negative, Weird Al Yankovic, are just some of my favorites. I stopped collecting back in '96 or so when I quit working in music stores. Ah, how I miss alphabetizing.
Movies:
scifi, horror, fantasy, comedy, foreign, shambara (samurai), anime, action. DVDs: Apocalypse Now, Edward Scissorhands, Hackers, Heathers, Hudson Hawk, Princess Bride, Saving Private Ryan, Zatoichi, Planet of the Apes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Star Wars, The Crow, Ghostbusters, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, High Fidelity, American Beauty, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Serenity, to name but a few.
Television:
Star Trek, Doctor Who, Farscape, Firefly, Twilight Zone, Voyagers, Young Ones, Daily Show, Simpsons, South Park, Adult Swim, Family Guy, Deadwood, The 4400, So You Think You Can Dance, 24, Alias, Dead Like Me, WWE, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Mythbusters, Brainiac, Dirty Jobs, History Channel, Jeopardy, Win Ben Stein's Money, 'Millionaire,
Books:
Blink, The Four Agreements, Colossus, A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1984, Neuromancer, Anthem, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Time Enough for Love, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai, Steppenwolf
Heroes:
Wilbur and Orville Wright
Thomas Alva Edison
Herr Gerbhardt
William Shakespeare
Alexander Graham Bell
Spock
Albert Einstein
Nikola Tesla
Dudley 'Booger' Dawson
Bob Marley
Roald Amundsen
Dr. Glenn Seaborg
Zatoichi
Dr. Norman Borlaug
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
