The Bible, Philosophy, Theology, Psychology, Japanese/Chinese culture and history, Writing (or, rather, creating stories. I rarely get the chance to actually write them all down) Linguistics, Martial Arts, Music (listening, playing, and doing both at the same time), Spontaneous Human Combustion, Funny pictures of cats, Females, Ninjas, and Swords.
Music
Yes.
I can pretty much define my musical tastes in this simple phrase: Excluding most country, rap, and emo, I like anything and everything written in the past several thousand years. I listen to just about anything and everything. Piano solo, smooth jazz, heavy metal, classic rock, opera, orchestral, blues, classical, techno, and every othe genre out there.
I have a few favorites that I prefer to listen to more than others. Colin Hay, Nobuo Uematsu, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Bach, Beethoven, Philip Glass, Greg Edmonson, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Ayumi Hamasaki, Utada Hikaru, oriental style music, any piano music, and a few others rank pretty high up there.
Movies
Serenity, The Matrix Trilogy, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The original Star Wars movies, The Butterfly Effect, old ninja/samurai movies, Transformers, Secondhand Lions, Superman: Doomsday, The End of Evangelion, The Illusionist, The Prestige, Rejected, Fifth Element, The Lion King, Gargoyles, Labyrinth, The Green Mile, Power Rangers: The Movie, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2. I like movies.
Television
I don't really watch much TV. I do enjoy Firefly, Heroes, Scrubs, Justice League/Justice League Unlimited, The Incredible Hulk (that great old one from the 80's), Kung Fu (with David Carradine), The Colbert Report, Lost, and Highlander.
Books
I love books almost as much as I love music. I'm pretty much a biblophobe. Amoung my favorites are: The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander, The Belgariad/Malorean by David Eddings, The Shannara series by Terry Brooks, The Xanth series by Peirs Anthony, The Chronicles of Amarid by David B. Coe, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Bible by God, anything dealing with philosophy, Checkbooks by The Bank, Phonebooks by The Phone People, and Books of Sheet Music by Lotsa People.
CURENTLY READING: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Fredrich Nietzche. Like the rest of his works it's riddled with plot holes and contradictions, but entertaining nonetheless. Doesn't believing in nihilism defeat the purpose of nihilism? More to the point, if everyone were to break the routine and overcome onesself like Nietzche suggests wouldn't we basically be at the exact same place as we were before? Wouldn't being overmen become the norm, thus defeating the purpose of the overman?
Heroes
Jesus, Paul, Miyamoto Musashi, Walter Beudwin, Justin Lidnsey, Rachel, David, and Daniel Mumbert, Joey Hoopengardener, Chris Mcurdy, Kaitlin Sickle, Butch Barton, Peggy Parish, Tony Jay (R.I.P.), Nobuo Uematsu, Hans Zimmer, Philip Glass, Plato, and the guy who draws the chalk outlines around corpses for the police force.
About me: I am a flower quickly fading
Here today, gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I AM YOURS.
I am a follower of Christ. I am a musician. I am a philosopher. I can say a bunch of flowery, trussed up things, but in the end that's what it boils down to.
Who I'd like to meet: I already know Jesus, so I won't put him here. He's a great guy by the way. Paul, Nobuo Uematsu, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Danny Elfman, Colin Hay, and my future wife.
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If I could go anywhere right now, and money were not an issue, I'd go back to Nashville to visit a trio of unlikely angels trapped in the cult of poverty. Three children I met while I was at college that have not enough money to buy shampoo to wash their hair. I'd visit with them for a whole week, or more, and do nothing but dote upon them. I'd wash McKenzie's hair and buy new dresses for Sadie and play basketball with Drew all day long.
I miss them so. They are the one reason I regret leaving Nashville.
