making music, creating sounds, unusual and unique musical instruments, effects pedals, gadgets and computers, Classical mythology, food, Chinese folk art, pirates, linguistics and etymology, architecture, comic books, fantasy and sci-fi, drawing, Renaissance costuming, leather accoutrements, arcade games (GALAGA!), MMORPGs, card games, religious history, anthropology and genetics, martial arts, tattoos, rocking out with various extremeties out.... phew.
Music
In absolutely no particular order: David Bowie, Arch Enemy, Queen, Behemoth, Mastodon, Pantera, the Police, Meshuggah, Peter Gabriel, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, Strapping Young Lad, Testament, Necrophagist, Guns 'n' Roses, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, In Flames, Genesis, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Radiohead, Judas Priest, Iggy Pop, Lamb of God, Opeth, Beethoven, Johnny Cash, Rachmaninov, Rush, Dvorak, Ella Fitzgerald, Bach, R. Strauss, Yes, Brahms, Elvis Costello, Prince, The Cure, Tool, BTBAM, Laurie Anderson, Public Enemy, and way too many more to list.
Movies
Brazil, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Princess Bride, Star Wars, History of the World Part. 1, The Ring, Secretary, Shaw Brothers' kung fu movies, anything Jackie Chan and Jet Li, Fantasia, City of Lost Children, Bound, Aliens, Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, Vertigo, The Birds, Silence of the Lambs, V for Vendetta
Television
I don't watch TV except on very rare occasions.
Books
An Exaltation of Larks, She Captains, the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, Candide, The Hours, Gray's Anatomy, Written on the Body, The Iliad, Naked, The Name of the Rose, Ender's Game, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Giving Tree, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
I am a murderer....I mean musician. Pay me and I will slaughter those near and dear to you. Um... I mean I will play pretty songs for you...yeah. Stabbing....err....ahem, PLAYING MUSIC is one of my favorite things to do....
You can keep an eye on me here, though my website is currently under construction:
Just stopping by to say that I hope you will spend your holidays surrounded by friends and family, happy conversation, great food, good memories for the future and of course great music to listen to and perform.
Best of Health and Success for You and Yours for You Lyris and HUNG.. for2009 and Beyond!
Sincerely, - Robert J. Ralph
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