PEACE, kindness, humility - understanding human behavior, ego, emotions, and relationships...
...and my son, Christopher :-)
...and Barack Obama for President!!!
...and the Cape Hatteras lighthouse (building an accurate 1/48 scale model, to be specific)
...and wood and woodworking
...and building things
...Habitat for Humanity! An amazing organization!
...and museums!
...and art, and artists, and graphic design, and designers
...and architecture
...and puzzles! Crossword puzzles and word games; some board games, and good riddles
...Cahokia... and other NORTH American people and cities before the 1400s (600-1400 AD)
...and medicine circles throughout the Americas
...and etymology (that's words). And also entymology (that's bugs)!
...and all things mechanical, and TOOLS! How things work!
...and model-making
...and politics -- liberal, of course :-)
...and computers, and software, and technology, and the Internets(thanks, Al!)
...and books and reading
...and spirituality, and comparative religions
...and nature, and science, and anatomy and physiology
...and EVOLUTION!
...and geneology
...and traveling and meeting other people
...and other cultures
Music
Dixieland jazz; Duke Ellington; Louis Armstrong; Ella Fitzgerald; Benny Goodman; Bix Biederbeck; Bob Scobey; Jelly Roll Morton; Miles Davis; Zydeco; Shirley Bassey; George Gershwin; Cole Porter; any of John Williams' themes; Willie Nelson; many, many, many Broadway musical numbers (Camelot, Man of La Mancha, Music Man, the King & I, Chorus Line, Cats, and of course, Aida!, are my favorites, but also Hair, Oklahoma, Jesus Christ Superstar); most classical; Gibert & Sullivan, folk-rock - James Taylor, Carly Simon, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, John Denver; anything Beatles; Enya; Simon & Garfunkel; Mason Williams; Barbra Streisand; Bonnie Tyler; some/most Big Band; ALL Tom Lehrer --look him up :-); Sinatra; some/most 50s-60s Rock & Roll; Four Seasons; ABBA; Rhythm & Blues, Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, yada, yada...
Movies
I absolutely LOVE watching movies... Casablanca*, Young Frankenstein*, Notting Hill* (my favorite romantic comedy), Shawshank Redemption, Ferris Bueller's Day Off*, As Good As It Gets*, The Blues Brothers* AND The Blues Brothers 2000*(Oooooo Erykah Badu!), Ghostbusters*, Ruthless People, Contact, Blankman*, Office Space*, The Coneheads*, Clue, Breakfast of Champions, Galaxy Quest*, Chocolat, Rat Race*, DeathTrap, The Shining, Camelot (1967), 2001:A Space Odyssey, Pay it Forward, Shrek I & II*, Superman*-1978 (my all-time favorite romantic scene/song: "Can you Read My Mind"), Spiderman I & II, Harry Potter (ALL!), The Whole Nine Yards*, Men in Black, A Fish Named Wanda*, Star Wars (the first, original three!), American Graffiti, Earth Girls are Easy, Oh Brother Where Art Thou*, Mystery Men*, The Producers*, I Love You to Death, The Bridges of Madison County, Fierce Creatures, Popeye, Animal House*, 9 to 5, Good Will Hunting, Mousehunt, Big Trouble, Narrow Margin, Repossessed, Dogma, Memento, Home Alone I & II, Beetlejuice*, The Princess Bride*, The Graduate (plastics), The Wizard of Oz, Jurassic Park, Amadeus, The World According to Garp, American Beauty, The Addams Family*, The Matrix (1999), The Usual Suspects, Deep Impact, Indiana Jones (all), The Fly (1986), Fargo, The Sixth Sense, Batman (1989)& Batman Returns (1992), Jaws, Pacific Heights, Chasing Amy, Multiplicity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Wild Hogs, The Sound of Music (1965), See No Evil-Hear No Evil, Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), anything Monty Python, Hudson Hawk, California Suite, The Bear, anything Marx Brothers, My Fair Lady (1964), Joe versus the Volcano* :-), The Golden Compass, Ironman (* = Great Quotes!!)
Television
Very little, but -- The Daily Show, House, Two and a Half Men, Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson!!!!, sometimes Monk and Malcolm in the Middle... (older - Seinfeld, Star Trek, WKRP in Cincinnati, Newhart, Barney Miller, M.A.S.H., Wild Wild West, Rockford Files, Taxi, Monty Python, the original SNL, Pee Wee's Playhouse, and, oh yeah, Sesame Street!!)
Books
I also LOVE books... Anything by Poe (stories and sonnets), all Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle), anything by Mark Twain, Shakespeare, How the Mind Works (Stephen Pinker)amaaazing book-read it!!, The Rama series (Arthur C. Clark), HARRY POTTER series - ALL! (JK Rowling), Conversations with God (Neale Donald Walsch), The Dark Matter Series [Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass](Philip Pullman) fabulous!!, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey), A Brief History of Time (Hawking), The DaVinci Code, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Conan series (Robert E. Howard), all Ray Bradbury, all H.P. Lovecraft, all Isaac Asimov, lots of other science fiction, Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818), good suspense mysteries -- CHILDREN'S BOOKS! The Secret Garden, Eloise-ALL, Happy Winter, The Cat in the Hat, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz, Green Eggs and Ham, Strega Nona, Where the Wild Things Are, Alice and Wonderland, Stone Soup, In the Night Kitchen, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Pooh-ALL, Polar Express, Charlotte's Web....
Heroes
Dr. Albert Hugh Tewfik Doss, an amazing and inspirational human being, that I had the honor and pleasure of knowing for a mere 19 months before his transition, Jimmy (and Rosalynn) Carter, Vaclav Havel, Viktor Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning), Dean Kamen (inventor of the Segway and other amazing ideas!), Christopher Reeve, and his wife Dana Reeve, were and are both inspirations, Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and my wonderful, loving, and amazing wife, Aida Doss Havel, and my best friend, Crystal Lynn Willett...(no, I'm not kidding)
NOW, PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE to visit my wife, AIDA's, website at www.havellaw.com. You can also check out her new MySpace page - she's the first photo link below in "My Friends."
ALSO, I've just posted a new portfolio (album ) of some of my artwork, some very old AND some very new, on my FLICKR webpage at www.flickr.com/photos/justhman. I will continue to caption, comment, and add pieces in the coming weeks. Take a look and tell me what you think, and thanks!
ONE MORE THING... If you need a new website, or if you have an old website that REALLY needs some professional help, please follow the link below to my friends' (Jessica & Kevin) website, WRENOVATE.com.
THANKS!
Okay, now here's a few photos from my picture album...
PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE to watch this great music video...
Who I'd like to meet:
I have finally met (July 2007 and July 2008) almost ALL of my seven long-lost cousins (and their spouses)!, the Krehel family, whom I had not seen in 25-plus years, that was a real treat!... I still have a few first and second cousins once-removed to meet!!
I would like to meet the poet/President Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic. I understand that currently he is quite ill, and then there is the small issue of an ocean, but that would truly be an honor.
I would really like to meet Jimmy Carter once again. I actually met him once, very briefly for a booksigning, but there was not a real opportunity to greet him properly. I would love to meet him, to look him in the eye, and to thank him for his amazing life, service, and inspiration.
Two other people I would be honored to meet would be J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, and also Bill Watterson, former artist and writer of the "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip. I truly believe they both have amazing insight into life and the human condition.
Oh, how cute the birthday card is! At least I'm only a month and a half behind in reading this. Thanks for remembering.
By the way, I can picture myself like you on a camel, with the caption reading, "This camel started out as a dromedary, but now has two humps instead of one!" Can't remember what they call the double-hump camels, but I know the single-hump camels are called dromedaries. Why do I know anything about camels anyway?!
You have come to be one of the greatest friends I've ever had. I love and admire you very much. I hope we manage to cross paths often in the future. My best to you and Aida always.
Johnny Boy I appreciate your friendship and being part of my life. I believe that every single person who enters our life is there for a reason and everybody has a gift to give. Life to me is a remembering process and it is about sharing that remembrance. I write blogs for that purpose and I would like to share with you the gift of my remembrance: please view my blog by going here http://blog.myspace.com/135620083 and please subscribe if you consider it something of value.
We all remember different things so if you have a blog you would like to share please invite me; I would be grateful for the present indeed.
“Having a desire that is not achievable is like having a hunger that you cannot feed. As if seeing the food that will satisfy hunger and unable to attain it.” ~Nicholas Powell
