E-Prime,
Writing and performing comedy, frame analysis, Saxophone, piccollo, mridangam, the French language, evolutionary psychology, epistemology
Music
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Fiona Apple, the Mridangam, Zappa, Kenny Garrett
Movies
RECENTLY SEEN:
Low City, Strangers with Candy, Wordplay, An Inconvenient Truth, Patton, Guiliani Time, Art School Confidential, The Cult of the Suicide Bomber, Amitabh Bacchan's greatest hits, Half Nelson, Little Miss Sunshine, The US vs. John Lennon, Borat, The Last King of Scotland, Shortbus, Pan's Labyrinth, The Life of Brian, The Holy Mountain, Salo, Jesus de Montreal, Letters from Iwo Jima, Volver, Soul Vaccination, Showgirls, Logan's Run, Lives of Others, Black Book, Goodbye Lenin, Knocked Up, Jonestown, Diggers, Jesus Camp, El Topo, Distortion, The Holy Mountain, Juno, Persepolis
Television
Six Feet Under, Ali G, Mr. Show, Real Time with Bill Maher
Books
RECENTLY READ:
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins,
Incedision, by Benjamin Kunkel,
The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene,
Means of Ascent (Part II of LBJ biography),
Small Unit Leadership,
Ki: A road that anyone can walk,
Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
The Word and the Bomb, by Hanif Kureishi
Breaking the Spell, by Daniel Dennett,
True Story, by Bill Maher
Nonviolence, by Mark Kurlansky,
The Blank Slate, by Stephen Pinker,
The Discomfort Zone, Jonathan Franzen,
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Heroes
Arthur Koestler, Richard Dawkins, Gurani Anjali, Milan Kundera, David Cross, Vaclav Havel, Rahsaan Roland Kirk