The self-proclaimed architect of our virtual and physical environments...
If I'm not mistaken, the US and British OSS (precursors to the CIA and MI5) actually created the internet during WWII, in case anyone really wanted to know... PING!
My favorite Tom Hollander interview.
A moron interviewing another moron, while Tom must sit quietly and listen to another bootlicking-sycophant (with his sights set on Hollywood) yammer on.
If you listen carefully, you can almost hear Tom thinking to himself: 'Am I invisible? I think perhaps I am.' 'Hmmm...I think I should take a giant s**t on this interview right...about...now!' 'Note to my agent: What f****g list are they talking about and why have I not been on it?' 'Note to my agent: Scratch that. Make sure I am never on that f****g list.'
I am an equestrian, and I love the outdoors and all manner of activities out there, but I am a helpless bookworm, so I do not get outdoors as often as I should. I am passionate about Art, Architecture, Music, Politics and Religion, though I prefer to call it Spirituality. I object to the dogmatic, ritualized conscriptions of all organized religions in general, where personal spiritual growth is measured by one's ascription to ritual, (Where's the free will in that?!), rather than their internal personal relationship with a higher power.
My Cultural Tendancies...
As for Music, I love all kinds. I believe it is essential to the human thought life and all inspiration. So much so, I'll leave you with my favorite thought on music:
"When I was born, there was nothing
and at my passing, all the earth will cease to exist.
The past is but a memory;
The future, dreams,
and the present...is music!
That is all that matters,
so enjoy it to the fullest!
Because life, like these bubbles
that are always rising in my glass,
is always forming around me.
So drink of it much, and drink of it often,
because the best is yet to come!"
- A German Toast
A few of my favorite Movies...
In no particular order:
The Princess Bride
What Dreams May Come
Spaceballs
The Mosquito Coast
Explorers
High Plains Drifter (& the rest of the Spaghetti Westerns)
Cool Hand Luke
Butch & Sundance
The Great Waldo Pepper
The Long Hot Summer
The Three Faces of Eve
Gone With The Wind
LOTR
Waking Life
The Straight Story
Gosford Park
The Anniversary Party
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Odd Couple (Matthau & Lemmon)
Glengary Glen Ross
The Royal Tennenbaums
The Life Aquatic
Broken Flowers
Lost in Translation
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Pink Panther
The Party
The Sleeper
Zelig
Love and Death
Alfred Hitchcock
John Huston
Robert Altman
John Ford
Billy Wilder
Orson Welles
James Stewart
Bogie & Bacall
James Cagney
Peter Sellers
Woody Allen
Gene Wilder & Gilda Radner
Mel Brooks & Anne Bancroft
the Coen Bros.
the Wachowski Bros.
Currently on my reading table...
"TESLA: Man Out of Time"
"Wealth of Nations"
"The Making of Modern Economics"
"God and Man at Yale"
"Schroedinger's Kittens"
"Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back"
"Time Waits for No Mouse"
"Codes and Cyphers - a History of Espionage"
"Churchill and the Secret Service"
The Bible, with Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
"The Jewish-Christian Schism"
"How to Work for an Idiot"
The next book on my reading list:
"The No A$$**** Rule"
Who I'd like to meet: No Heroes, just folks I really admire...
Job, Adam Smith, Sir Isaac Newton, Voltaire AND Rousseau, John Adams, Patrick Henry, Napoleon Bonaparte (until he crowned himself 'Emperor of Rome.' WTF?!), Ludwig van Beethoven (he flipped out over that, too), George Washington Carver, Harold Edgerton (the real inventor of "bullet time"), Ayrton Senna, Helen Keller, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, Beatrix Potter, Bill Hicks, and many more...
