Primarily: I spend a lot of my time with Metal & Stoner Rock, and I also read a lot of non-fiction (history, WWII, political science, philosophy), as well as fiction. I'm interested in certain elements of Plato, Lao Tzu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Native American sovereignty and civilization. Research and writing my books (1 fiction and 1 non-fiction) also take up a lot of time. I'm into collecting dvd's and have a large collection, I'm interested in animals and animal rights (though I'm not a vegetarian), tattoos (I have large upper arm pieces on both arms), chess (I like the chess style of Jose Capablanca 1888-1942), 60's/70's muscle cars, forests and mountains (especially at night). I love the night. I always have. I'm also very nocturnal. And, though I'm not a member of any so-called OMG, I do have an interest in the HAMC and support their right to be free.
Other people with similar interests and backgrounds, other Metalheads and Stoner Rock/Metalers, Writers, Musicians, Libertarians, Skeptics, Agnostics, Atheists, Taoists (people interested in yin/yang Philosophy but no Pacifists), HAMC supporters, NORML supporters, etc. I’m also interested in talking to other readers of the Skeptical Inquirer as well as readers of Skeptic Magazine and people who find The Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic as entertaining as I do.
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Politically: I'm neither conservative nor liberal, and there is a difference to me between what political direction I find to be a more practical and realistic option (Minarchist Libertarianism with agreement on some aspects of Neo-Libertarianism such as its interventionist foreign policy based on self-interest and national defense), and what political direction I find to be more ideal (something more along the lines of what Plato thought in his book, The Laws). Ultimately, the foundation of politics is found in nature. Nature is about Survival Of The Fittest. If the "practical" and "ideal" systems, the less governing and the more governing, could ever yin/yang together somehow it would be interesting. Basically, it would be "ideal" in structure, but "practical" in nature. However, I'm not holding my breath. What this amounts to is that my wife and I are Libertarians that don't care much for the existing U.S. political system as a means of implementing those principles (some things can be done within it despite the system). We would like to see limited, small Republics (Nation-States), each with the freedom to be either more conservative or more liberal, yet bound together in a more Switzerland like Confederacy, or Tribalism, etc., For more in-depth information, see my Blog on society and politics.
Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson (solo stuff) Dio (and Dio era Rainbow), Arch Enemy (Wages of Sin album to present), Opeth, The Doors, W.A.S.P., Black Sabbath, Ozzy (his music, not his tv crap or his evil bitch wife), Acid King, Eternal Elysium, Sonic Flower, Kyuss, Grand Magus, 18 Speed Tranny, Kula Shaker, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Tombstones, Causa Sui, Novadriver, Smoke, Fort, Sideburn, Space Probe Taurus, The Atomic Bitchwax, Siena Root, Monkey3, The Gates Of Slumber, Megadeth, Finntroll, Benedictum, Demons and Wizards, RUSH, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, and early Marillion back when Fish (Derek W. Dick) sang for them along with some of his solo stuff later.
I'm also into Kalmah, Samael (early years), Satyricon (recent years), Gorgoroth (some), Mortiis (some), CCR, Deep Purple, Stevie Ray Vaughan, early Genesis back when Peter Gabriel sang, Cinderella, Motley Crue (some), Guns N' Roses (some), Ratt (some). And to a lesser degree I like some New Age music, some Jazz, some Big Band stuff circa 1940's, and some Trance (without lyrics).
SCI-FI: Logan's Run, Escape From New York, John Carpenter's The Thing, Alien & Aliens, the original Battlestar Galactica, Silent Running, Blade Runner, Stargate (movie only), Deep Rising, Reign of Fire, The Cave FANTASY: The Adventures of Robin Hood (with Flynn), The Archer-Fugitive From The Empire, Conan the Barbarian, Hearts and Armour, The Lord of the Rings trilogy ACTION: Vanishing Point (1971), The Driver (1978), The Gumball Rally (1976), Lethal Weapon series, Die Hard series, The Warriors (1979), The Hunted (1995 Christopher Lambert), The Hunted (2003 Tommy Lee Jones), The Replacement Killers, Ronin ADVENTURE/DRAMA: Lost Horizon (1937), The Groundstar Conspiracy, Tag the Assassination Game, Never Cry Wolf, The Emerald Forest, River's Edge, Last of the Dogmen, The Last Samurai, Basic, Ocean's 11 & 12, Sneakers WESTERNS: Dances With Wolves, Ride With The Devil, Red Sun, The Train Robbers, The Wild Bunch, Jeremiah Johnson, Young Guns, Open Range WAR: Gettysburg, Hell is for Heroes, Kelly's Heroes, The Last Drop, The Bridge at Remagen, Catch 22, The Thin Red Line, Windtalkers, When Trumpets Fade, Farewell to the King, Men in War, Red Dawn, Apocalypse Now, Uncommon Valor, Rambo -First Blood, Platoon, Hamburger Hill, Tour of Duty series HORROR: Shock Waves, Phantasm, Terror Train, Dog Soldiers, Shaun of the Dead ANIME: Cowboy Bebop, Robotech COMEDY: Abbott & Costello, The President's Analyst, Support Your Local Sheriff, Goonies, Volunteers, Eastern Condors, The Burbs, Men at Work, Hudson Hawk, The Big Lebowski, Dazed & Confused, Office Space, Big Trouble, Idiocracy, Ice Pirates STAND-UP COMEDY: Lewis Black.
In my opinion, TV sucks. I don't even have cable anymore, I just collect dvd's. I get my news online and don't have to deal with the stupid B.S. of TV anymore. I do watch and collect South Park. TV shows I like from the past though are: Hogan's Heroes, Baa Baa Black Sheep, M*A*S*H, Battlestar Galactica (the original 1978 series), Tales of the Gold Monkey, B.J. and the Bear, and Tour of Duty. As a huge fan of the original Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979) series, I have collected the old novels that Glen A. Larson did, and the new ones that Richard Hatch has done, along with other print stuff related to that great 1978-1979 series.
I'm a voracious reader. You can learn more from reading than most anything else. A few recommendations are:
Inspiration:
Lost Horizon by James Hilton; Earth Abides by George R. Stewart; Yin & Yang by J.C. Cooper; Lao Tzu's Taoteching - With Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years by Red Pine; The Art of War - Samuel B. Griffith (Translator); Native American Testimony by Peter Nabokov; Native American History by Judith Nies; The Wisdom of the Native Americans edited by Kent Nerburn
Myths, Lies, etc: The Cult of Alien Gods – H.P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture by Jason Colavito; A Culture of Conspiracy by Michael Barkun; Imagining Atlantis by Richard Ellis; The Age Of Reason by Thomas Paine; The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert L. Wilken; The Born Again Skeptic's Guide to the Bible by Ruth H. Green; The Canon of the New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger; The Ancient Mysteries - A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts edited by Marvin W. Meyer; The Jesus Mysteries - Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God? by Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy; The Jesus Puzzle – Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ by Earl Doherty; Secret Origins of the Bible by Tim Callahan
History & Politics:
Secrets Of The Stone Age by Richard Rudgley; Death March - The Survivors of Bataan by Donald Knox; Prisoners of the Japanese by Gavan Daws; The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang; The Great Political Theories Volume 1 and 2 Edited by Michael Curtis; The Laws by Plato; The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Conventional Debates by Ralph Ketcham; The Anti-Federalist - An Abridgment of The Complete Anti-Federalist by Herbert J. Storing; What It Means to Be a Libertarian - by Charles Murray
Music & Band Bio's:
Run to the Hills - The Authorised Biography (Iron Maiden) by Mick Wall 3rd Edition; DIO - The Light Beyond the Black by Martin Popoff; Nick Drake - The Biography by Patrick Humphries; Lords of Chaos - The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind (new edition); The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal by Daniel Bukszpan (forward by Ronnie James Dio); The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal by Essi Berelian (forward by Bruce Dickinson)
Miscellaneous:
Marijuana Myths Marijuana Facts: A Review Of The Scientific Evidence by Lynn Etta Zimmer & John P. Morgan; Marijuana Law by Richard Glen Boire; Hashish! by Robert Connell Clarke; The Encyclopedia of War Movies by Robert Davenport; Hell's Angels by Sonny Barger; Freedom by Sonny Barger; The Brotherhoods by Arthur Veno; Chess Fundamentals -Algebraic Edition by Jose Capablanca. And lastly, certainly worth tracking down a used copy for a laugh, is a novel that came out in 1990 entitled: The ZORK Chronicles by George Alec Effinger.
I don’t really have any "heroes".