| General | Writing (www.authorjjhiggins.com), playing guitar, listening to music, fencing, watching movies, going to shows and clubs, meeting interesting people, academia, experiencing art in all of its forms, reaching my goals, running, making jokes.
| | Music | I like a wide variety of music but some of my favorite artists are Queensryche, Franz Joseph Haydn, Vast, Cradle of Filth, Domenico Scarlatti, Pennywise, any Balinese Gamelan music, The Living End, The Scanners, Antonin Dvorak, Type O Negative, Deadsy, Fear Factory, J.S. Bach, The Birthday Massacre, Dragonforce, Sir Edward Elgar, HIM, Ludwig van Beethoven, Dresden Dolls, Killing Joke, The 69 Eyes, Fleetwood Mac, Antonio Vivaldi, Rammstein, AFI, Elvis, My Dying Bride, Megadeth, Johannes Brahms, U2, Billy Idol, Jimi Hendrix, Napalm Death, Led Zeppelin, CKY, Dir en grey, Johnny Cash, Frederic Chopin, Rage Against the Machine, Dropkick Murphys, The Doors, Felix Mendelssohn, Filter, Moonspell, Sponge, Les Yeux Noirs, Slayer, Gustav Holst, Opeth, Alice In Chains, Graveyard, Stray Cats, Wizo, Sepultura(original line-up 1984-1996), Alison Krauss, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Rhapsody, Gogol Bordello, and so many others I haven't mentioned. | | Movies | Equilibrium, The Illusionist, Prozac Nation, The Merchant of Venice, Stranger than Fiction, Nosferatu, Pirates of the Caribbean (all), Gangs of New York, Dark City, Wicker Park, Dead Poets Society, Richard III, Memento, Blood and Chocolate, The Maltese Falcon, The Pianist, Road to Perdition, Across the Universe, Harakiri, The Prestige, Waking Life, Manchurian Candidate (old and new versions), Troy, Tombstone, any fantasy movie you can think of, The Crow, Resident Evil, Sin City, Danton, The Ring, The Island, The Last Samurai, Silent Hill, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Fracture, Arthur, Valkyrie, and more.
| | Television | Most crime dramas and late shows are good. | | Books | Treasure Island, The Three Musketeers, Cup of Gold, The Federalist Papers, Paine's Rights of Man, Beethoven the Creator, Eclipse of Reason, Reflections on the Revolution in France (I don't agree with Burke 90% of the time but man is he a good writer!), Rise of a Merchant Prince, History and Philosophy in general, God Bless you Dr. Kevorkian by Vonnegut (it's a fun read), you should see my book collection, It's huge! I'm typically buried in journal articles by the way which comes with the territory but they're interesting too.
| | Heroes | Progressive and forward looking people. |
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