music and the arts, literature, fitness and exercise, travel in the u.s. (especially gettysburg, socal (especially l.a.), boston and the cape, the deep south, and new orleans), hiking and canoeing, spiritual and psychological issues, fine dining, sports (particularly the cleveland browns, boston red sox and celtics, the midshipman of navy and the alabama crimson tide), and anything my children are doing.Finally, there are many worthy humanitarian causes to support, here's one: THE NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS RELIEF FUND . . . give generously, as they have to us.
any and all of the people and places that can be found on this page.
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.. You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.
Cultural Creative
Fundamentalist
Romanticist
Existentialist
Modernist
Postmodernist
Idealist
Materialist
Divine Command
Existentialism
Justice (Fairness)
Hedonism
Utilitarianism
Kantianism
Strong Egoism
Apathy
Nihilism
the beatles, the beach boys, the band, frank sinatra, the pat metheny group, sara evans, aaron copland, antonio carlos jobim . . . a variety of pop-rock (jangle, psychedelic, folk, power, and classic), country, americana-roots, assorted jazz and classical artists, and the many talented and generous musicians of myspace. the following quote from a fine musician sums up nicely my affection for american music in particular:"Italy could never have given the world Johnny Cash. It’s the great contradictions of America that interest us, the wealth and poverty, the generosity and greed, the naivety and brutality, the optimism and superstition. So much music in the world that could only have happened in America! Our jazz and blues musicians, our songwriters, black gospel, bluegrass and soul – American music – this is some of the best, most enduring stuff we’ve given the world as a nation, period."
--Linford Detweiler, Over The Rhine
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to kill a mockingbird, lord of the rings, braveheart, chinatown, and the many more that are listed below. in 2006 only one film stood out as both memorable and consequential (though i've yet to see eastwood's promising iwo jima films), the harrowing "united 93" . . . little wonder it performed poorly at the box office . . this time the terror was real.
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band of brothers, the civil war and baseball (ken burns documentaries), the andy griffith show, all in the family, seinfeld, law and order, the americans, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, brideshead revisited, lonesome dove, and dallas (a guilty but genuine pleasure in its day).
to kill a mockingbird, lord of the rings, a mass for the dead (wm. gibson), a place on earth (wendell berry), blue calhoun (reynolds price), the civil war (shelby foote), the deptford trilogy (robertson davies), the black flower (howard bahr), the "space trilogy" and christian apologetics of c.s. lewis, the albany cycle (wm. kennedy); the crime/detective novels of james ellroy, james lee burke, dennis lehane, and james crumley; the science fiction of arthur c. clarke, ray bradbury, issac asimov, and robert heinlein.
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jesus, st. paul . . . .
robt. e. lee, lincoln, reagan, churchill . . .
the beatles . . .
emily dickinson, marcel proust, maria ranier rilke, harper lee . . .
wm. f. buckley, norman podhoretz, george will . . .
ted williams, larry bird . . .
and all the servicemembers and first responders in america and throughout the free world.
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