"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
Edgar Allen Poe
Music
Pink Floyd, The Alan Parsons Project, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi, Jethro Tull, Genesis (Seconds Out, Wind & the Wuthering, And Then There Were Three, Trick of the Tail)and Electric Light Orchestra
Movies
"Forrest Gump", "Lord of The Rings Trilogy", and "Crimson Tide".
Television
Most Haunted, Dogfights, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Naked Archeaologist, Real Time With Bill Maher, Engineering An Empire,
Books
Most of the books I read are technical text books. I used to read a lot of Tom Clancey novels. I especially liked, "The Sum of All Fears", "Patriot Games", and "Hunt for the Red October". An older book that I got a kick out of was "The Electric Koolaid Acid Test; by Ken Kesey.
Heroes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Every man who landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, June 4, 1944
Remember, remember the fifth of November. Don't worry about the "leadership" of the South Carolina Democrats. This is still a quasi-democracy, and you can still write Stephen in!
