You can't have too many hobbies. Some of my favorites are:
watching movies,
making movies (though it has been a while since I've filmed anything),
thinking about movies (did I mention I love films? I really like older stuff, but I suppose there are some post 1980 films that are ok too...),
reading,
reading comics (only started a few years ago, but they are pretty cool),
Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales and other such things,
writing (more often now that I've discovered blogs),
playing games (eurogames, war games, rpgs, Magic, computer games... yeah, I realize there are a lot of (all of them?) damning admissions there),
ASL (Advanced Squad Leader), without a doubt the most complicated board game ever made.
folding origami,
weightlifting (Normally I'm into powerlifting, but I'm starting to get into olympic lifting. I think I was sold when I found out the core lifts were called Snatch and Jerk. I also like the idea of exercises that hit every muscle in your body rather than wasting my time with curls and calf raises),
wrestling,
submission wrestling (though I haven't been on a mat in a few years),
military history (despite not being "soldier material" (to put it lightly), tactics and world domination attempts are pretty interesting),
math theory (I'm no mathmetician, but math books for laymen can be very interesting too),
music (every now and then I get the urge to blow the dust off my guitar, piano, violin and recorder--none of which I play particularly well...remember the dust?),
hiking (never met a forest I didn't like...though Kansas is usually too hot and humid in the summer),
cooking (when my kitchen isn't too messy),
chaos
Music
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I have to admit my taste in music is pretty picky, but being sad/dark/epic/minor/sorrowful is a definite requirement...seriously, if it isn't in a minor key, I don't want to hear it. Some examples:
Baroque (*not* Classical),
Classical Eastern (*not* Eastern Pop),
Black/Death/Thrash Metal (*not* new school),
Joy Division (*not* New Order),
that girl from Dead Can Dance (*not* that guy from Dead Can Dance),
Hank Williams Sr. (*not* Hank Williams Jr.),
Paint it Black (*not* Satisfaction),
Tango Nuevo (*not* Tango...Viejo?),
Trance (*not* house),
etc.
As for specifics here are some of my favorite composers:
Burzum,
Darkthrone,
Morbid Angel,
Deicide,
Slayer,
Bach,
Vivaldi,
Astor Piazzolla,
Arvo Part,
Raison D'etre,
to name just a few
Movies
Tarkovsky's The Mirror is my all time favorite. But here are a few directors I like more than the others:
Eric Rohmer,
Andrei Tarkovsky,
Werner Herzog,
R.W. Fassbinder,
Jaques Tati,
Yasujiro Ozu,
Robert Bresson,
Carl Dreyer,
Ingmar Bergman,
Jacques Becker,
Jean-Pierre Melville
Sergio Leone,
Jules Dassin,
Woody Allen,
Harmony Korine (you got a problem with that??),
Robert Altman,
John Houston,
John Cassavettes,
John Ford,
Howard Hawks,
Preston Sturges,
Douglas Sirk,
G.W. Pabst,
F.W. Murnau,
Buster Keaton, and many many more...
Check out my current top twenty here: http://www.shompy.com/thrasymachus/l34415_ukuk.html
And my dvd collection here:
http://www.dvdspot.com/member=Thrasymachus
Television
TV might be "low art" but as long as you don't tell anyone, I have enjoyed the following shows:
The Honeymooners (possibly the best TV show of all time--aside from all the spousal abuse),
The Andy Griffith Show (not post Barney obviously),
The Office (both versions have their charms, and the American version is still the only show I watch weekly),
Buffy (a guilty pleasure...though I wonder how it would hold up to not being watched with an enthusiastic group as I watched it),
The Shield (yet another guilty pleasure...finally the bad guys are the heroes and get away with it--too bad they're cops),
The Wire (I'm really not a fan of cop dramas, but this one actually is rather "compelling" like the reviews say
Books
Aside from Lord of the Rings (which I've been rereading since the fourth grade), I like all kinds of stuff. Off the top of my head:
Nietzsche (brilliant writer, most enjoyable philosophy you'll ever read),
Snowcrash (THE cyberpunk book, badass and/or sweet pretty much sums up this book),
The Fountainhead (despite an appealing yet oversimplified philosophy, and despite feeling like my intelligence was insulted through much of the book, and despite Ayn Rand being one woman who I think it would be fair to call a "cunt", I have to admit that this was a pretty powerful book),
The Hobbit (second only to Lord of the Rings),
Goedel Escher Bach (Despite being about 500 pages too long, this was a very enlightning book on Artificial Intelligence),
The Silmarillion (Lord of the Rings written in bible speak? I am sooo there!),
Hemingway (great books Hemingway...just lighten up on the endings alright dude?),
Plato (something about Ancient philosophy that I find appealing...and it's cool how relevant all Plato's stuff still is even to this day),
and pretty much anything about few standing against many and plenty of epic heroic stuff (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Trevanian, Robert Howard etc...yeah I know they're pulp)
Heroes
Lots of people (fictional and otherwise) I admire, but some of my favorites are:
I make my own movies in my spare time. I'm still learning how to work with anyone else aside from the actors (whose value as collaborators I do realize). Anyway, I'll be posting my movies here as I finish them, check them out!
Hey Isley. Sorry I'm out of town for this month and didn't know the address i was going to. but once I figure it out, I'll let you know. I'll be back home the 30th of January. but i'll send you a message letting you know my address. How are you doing???
I have no idea what's going on in this picture. I do know that it is absolutely glorious. I gaze at this masterpiece and feel like I'm catching a glimpse of what heaven would be like. A prehistoric warzone. This is someone's Ninth Symphony.
haha i know what you ment but im just sayin there arnt many death metal bands these days. although they are more catagorized as hard core wich i hate most hardcore
Hmmmm. . . I'm worried that even for research purposes, the sounds of Ms. Aguilera will fester in your brain and turn you into a teeny-bopper. . . Better blare some Burzum to keep your perspective. :-p
