Hokeyboy

Playing guitar religiously, ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, travelling the world over - my favorite places include

Prague London Heidelberg, Germany the Cantabria province of Spain the Bahamas [specifically the Abacos] India (spent 2 weeks last July, it was amazing) Las Vegas (cliche I know, but what can you do? I've never gone there and NOT had the time of my life, except for one time I almost got SARS) Disney!!! Florence (and anywhere in Tuscany, really) Blue Ridge mountains of Tennessee New York City -- I was born there, it's in my blood

My tastes are pretty eclectic, from the hoity-toity intellectual to the basest of common yukkery. I love music, I'm a huge Beatles fan, play guitar and bass and some keyboards (a little weak on the last one there, it's been awhile), love reading anything from Joyce and Dostoyevsky to the latest issue of Green Lantern or Dork Tower, I'm a huge film buff (everything from Sergei Eisenstein's brilliant silent films from the 1930s to the majesty of Akira Kurosawa to the quiet dignity of Yasujiro Ozu to the surrealism of David Lynch, Jean Cocteau, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Luis Bunuel, to Disney animation and silly blockbusters) and could talk film all day long. I like running but I'm not *insane* about it, just trying to keep in shape. Karaoke, darts, drinks, and good friends could just about be the best way to spend an evening. I'm a gaming dork, mostly online MMORPG'ing but I enjoy the foray into the fantasy realm.I read Tarot... I don't "do" Tarot or "know" Tarot or "practice" it. I read it. And not with cards you can buy from a store in the mall, but the old school, old European kind. If I learned anything from them, it's NOT to push the spirit world too hard. And I can't tell you if you'll find the love of your life in 45 minutes or if you boyfriend is cheating on you, and I won't drop that "there's a strong woman in your life presenting conflict" bullshit either. Like I said, don't fuck with the spirits, unless you don't mind having waking fever dreams for 2 weeks, nightmares for a month, and cold shivers for no reason. I love writing -- I've got over 250 movie/DVD reviews published .., as well as dozens of songs, poems, fiction, and non-fiction pieces just lying around waiting for greatness, music, reading, sailing, running, gaming, drinking, Disney, movies, theater, fun shit, whatever.My big thing, I guess, is being your typical gadget geek -- your quintessential guy stuff. Home theater. Video games. iPods. Satellite radio. GADGETS. Best Buy is my freakin' mothership. I'll stop a movie if I can sense some cross-phase modulation in the surround-sound matrix. I'll through words around like "RF Modulator" and have people accuse me of making shit up.So gaming... I'm huge into games. Gaming. Simulations. Whatever. I was a geeky D&D'er as a kid, lived for video games (Atari, Colecovision, Sega Genesis), role-playing games, and used to be grossly addicted to my XBox. I'm also huge into board and card games, like Settlers of Catan, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Chez Geek, Munchkin, Lunch Money ("HUMILIATION! Jesus hates you and so do I!"), Spooks, Gloom, Cranium, Scene It, and of course the classics like Monopoly ("The Jew always wins this game, bitch!"), Life, Clue (Disney Haunted Mansion version), Battleship... all that fun stuff. I haven't been playing much XBox lately (and still haven't invested in an XBox 360, but give me time), but I was a sworn devotee to Whacked, Crimson Skies, Halo (but not Halo 2), Jade Empire, Knights of the Old Republic, and the Grand Theft Auto holy trinity. Hell I even enjoy a round of chess, although I massively suck at it. Nowadays you can find me .. playing City of Heroes, City of Villains, and Eve ... I love the .. gaming environment. I can give you the standard bullshit excuse that I appreciate it as a socio-cultural microcosm of 21st-Century adolescent wish-fulfillment, but nobody would be buying that. What else? If you see me on my jogging route through South Miami and Coral Gables please try not sideswipe me with your Escalade (north on 59th court, east on 74th street, Red Road north to Sunset, east on Sunset to Cocoplum Circle and then back up in reverse). I like watching cool shit on TV and loathe shitcoms and reality bullshit. Please feel free to gut me from throat to groin with a hunting knife if I ever give a shit about what's going on in "American Idol". Gilbert Gottfried is a fucking genius, my first crush was on Connie Chung, and I'm wonderfully crushing on the woman of my dreams. Other than that, I love Thai food, smart funny creative women, and grilled cheese sandwiches with bacon and tomatoes.And I'm not much into blondes but I'm bugfuck crazy over Christina Aguilera and Gwen Stefani... although I'd sooner do a big fat hairy stanky black guy than Paris Hilton.I'm also a massive, unapologetic DISNEY geek -- the films, the animation, the parks, everything. I go to the parks 3-4X a year, or at least go up to the Orlando area to have fun over at Universal/Islands of Adventure, Sea World, even Medieval freakin' Times (went for the first time recently, it was a cheesy hoot!). Good old Uncle Walt himself is a personal hero of mine, for his perseverance and creative vision that helped shape the popular culture of not just America but the world as a whole. Anti-Semite? Ahh bullcrap. Anyway, as a fan and lover of animation, my adoration of Disney and Pixar creations is seemingly limitless. Anyone want to talk the Disney thing, let me know. In the meantime, anyone who has ANY interest in Disney should check out the amazing INSIDE THE MAGIC podcast. This is one of the slickest and most informative podcasts around, and it's got tons of trivia and info for Disney geeks everywhere. ..