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Sex, politics, art, religion, science, history, museums, movies, watching football (Vols, Titans, Colts), playing basketball and volleyball, chess, reading, cooking (esp. Cajun-Creole), hiking, walking, dancing, plays, concerts, symphonies, comedy shows, writing (mainly poetry, some prose), doing open mikes, republican socialism, anti-war activism, counterculture

I enjoy Islay single malts (esp. Laphroaig), Old Crow bourbon, Murphy's Stout, San Miguel Pale Pilsen, Dundee's Honey Brown braggot, Leabanese syrrah, and gin & tonic. I love to eat (and cook) a wide variety of foods, especially new ones; some of my fav's are Cajun-Creole, Filipino, Vietnamese, Soul Food, Southern BBQ, Indian, and Thai.

Perfect snack: Chips Ahoy!, sour cream & onion potato chips, beer; perfect dinner: PBJ sandwich, BBQ potato chips, beer; perfect breakfast: cold pizza, warm beer... hmmm, there seems to be a pattern emerging here, especially since I also enjoy the occasional beer float (bottle of stout and a scoop of vanilla ice cream).

My other favorite breakfast: chili dogs, French fries, chocolate milk.

And how could I forget peanut butter & jelly sandwiches dipped in Kraft House Italian dressing?

My favorite constellation is Orion, The Hunter

I have ties of some kind to and/or a special interest in the Philippines, Scotland, Ireland, Northeast Ulster, Iran, England, France, Palestine, Lebanon, Viet Nam, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Japan, and Burma, as well as the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Six Nations Confederacy, and the Euchee Nation.

Genre: Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Dixieland, Bebop, Rhythm 'n' Blues, Southern Rock, Acid Rock, Classical, Outlaw Country, Soul, Rockabilly, Zydeco, Scottish and Irish traditional and modern, Folk, Bluegrass, Tex-Mex, some Gospel, Persian traditional, some Rap/Hip-Hop

Artists: Grateful Dead, Nicole Hart, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Black Keys, Jennifer Daniels, Tom Waits, Fats Domino, Tupac Shakur, Jethro Tull, Thelonius Monk, John P. Coltraine, Ella Fitzgerald, Procul Harum, Manic Street Preachers, Meatloaf, Dick Gaughan, Flogging Molly, Real Mckenzies, Dropkick Murphys, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Sophie B. Hawkins, Sarah McLachlan, Solas, Jim Croce, Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Queen, Janis Joplin, Asia Night Beat Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Joe Cocker, Bella Fleck and the Flecktones, Freddie Aguilar, Dead Kennedys, John Trudell, Black 47, Bob Marley, Deva Premal, Ry Cooder, Depeche Mode, Grand Master Flash, Niggers With Attitude, Public Enemy, Ice-T, Iggy Pop, Nirvana, Chuck Berry, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Tina Turner, Rolling Stones, Paul Robeson, Ramones, Ray Charles, The Smiths, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The The, Santana, Pink Floyd, Thirteen Senses, Tricky, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Simon & Garfunkel, Immortal Technique, Muse Gypsy

My favorite song of all time is "All Along the Watchtower" (yes, my spine flows red during sex). I also highly recommend the soundtracks to Braveheart and Last of the Mohicans

My favorite movie of all time is Last of the Mohicans (original release version). My favorite date movies is Before Sunrise.

Other fav movies: Farewell to the King, Legends of the Fall, Braveheart, Before Sunset, Silverado, Long Riders, M*A*S*H, The Big Chill, Notting Hill, About A Boy, Ferris Bueller, Star Wars, Star Trek II-IV, Billy Jack, Highlander (Director's Cut), Rob Roy, Evelyn, Michael Collins, Magdalene Sisters, Some Mother's Son, Enemy of the State, Dogma and the rest of the Jay & Silent Bob series, Apocalypse Now Redux, A History of Violence, Longtime Companion, Mystic River, Unforgiven, Wind That Shakes the Barley, Lord of the Rings, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Matrix, The Alamo (2004), Walk The Line, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Gandhi, High Noon, Trainspotting, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Das Boot, Devil's Own, The Wall, Torch Song Trilogy, Shawshank Redemption, Platoon, Harlem Nights, The Crow, King Arthur, Closer, Sneakers, Lethal Weapon I-IV, Willow, Wizards, Tequila Sunrise, Point Break, Best Seller, Leaving Las Vegas, Blow, Up In Smoke, No Way Out, Enemy Within, Crying Game, 84 Charlie Mopic, Mad About Mambo, Diary of a Hitman, V for Vendetta, Easy Rider, Casualties of War, Independence Day, Cannery Row, Heathers, Casablanca, Vietnam War Story, Fight Club, Butterfly Effect, Everlasting Piece, Eating Raoul, CHUD II, Maximum Overdrive, The Handmaid's Tale, Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings, Black Snake Moan, Kingdom of Heaven, Cool Hand Luke, Chocolat, 48 Hours, Reds, Running Scared (2006), Dark Brothers films, Opening Up of Misty Beethoven (and its outtakes), the work of Sasha Grey, Fast Food Nation, Deception, Basic, Hurricane, Mouse Trap, Dead Again, Breakfast Club, Sin City, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Grindhouse, The Lost Boys, Last Tango in Paris, In the Heat of the Night, A Time To Kill, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Rock & Roll High School, Fahrenheit 911, SICKO, Dad, Year of Living Dangerously, Next of Kin, Absence of Malice, The Lovers, Taps, Top Gun, The Hustler, Color of Money, The Sting, Joe's Apartment, Interview With A Vampire, anything with Julie Delpy

Chuck, House MD, Bones, CSI, Heroes, Mythbusters, Family Guy, Burn Notice, Eureka, NUMB3RS, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, Damages, Reaper, Sarah Conner Chronicles, Saving Grace, Sons of Anarchy, In Plain Sight, True Blood, The Mentalist, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Futurama, That '70's Show, Homicide: Life on the Street, M*A*S*H, Leverage, Robot Chicken, Dollhouse, True Blood

Boston Legal, RIP.: Gone but not forgotten.

BSG, RIP; gone but not forgotten.

Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kessler, Warped Passages, Last Days of Christ the Vampire, How I Paid For College: A Novel of Theft Friendship and Musical Theater, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, Being and Nothingness, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Good Ol' Archibald, Age of Reason, Rights of Man, Mark Twain, 1916, Masters of Solitude, Tain Bo Cualigne, Autobiography of Malcolm X, El Filibusterismo, Tolkien, Harry Potter series, Star Wars Expanded Universe, Star Trek DS9 relaunch, Stranger in a Strange Land, Grapes of Wrath, Das Kapital, The Other America, Job: A Comedy of Justice, Parthian Shot, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road Kill Him!, Illusions, Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare, Anarchist's Cookbook, John LeCarre, Children of the Arbat, Crime and Punishment, Lord of Light, The Jungle, The Iron Heel, People of the Abyss, Trinity, The Prophet, Looking Backward, Dispatches, Less Than Zero, Ten Days That Shook The World, The Ugly American, Satanic Verses, Persian Letters, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, The Razor's Edge, 13th Valley, The Hajj, Vietnam Spook Show, Gardens of Stone, Charlie Mike, Mekong, Ho Chi Minh on Revolution, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Handmaid's Tale, W. B. Yeats, Rabbie Burns, Edgar Allen Poe, Ulysses, Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle, Her Darkest Materials, Robin Cook, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Hard Candy, writings of the Iranian poet Sa'adi, Hells Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Fear Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, And the Band Played On, On Bullshit

Yes, I read comics: Season 8, Angel Season 6, Star Wars Expanded Universe

Thomas Paine, if I had to name anyone, but I already left the Buddha dead in the middle of the road.

By the way, I picked my profile song because of the scene in which it appears during an episode of "Bones".