| General | I'm into horses, science fiction of all kinds, reading, art (pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, oil, acrylics, pastels, etc), animals in general, archery, riflery, other weaponry, languages (Spanish, Welsh, Elvish, and Bislama at the moment, dabbling in several others), mythology (especially Celtic and Norse), hiking, camping, and other outdoorsy stuff, running, leather and bead work, weaving, lots and lots of websurfing and general computer geekiness and randomosity. | | Music | The 6ths, Aarktica, Aberdeen City, A.C. Newman, Actionslacks, Adiemus, Aimee Mann, Air, Alanis Morissette, Alexi Murdoch, Altan, Anagram, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Andrea Bocelli, Ani DiFranco, The Apples in Stereo, Aqualung, Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Argentina, Ash, Azure Ray, Badly Drawn Boy, The Bangles, Barenaked Ladies, Beat Happening, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Ben Kweller, The Beta Band, Beth Orton, Beulah, Big Country, Billy Joel, Bjork, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blind Melon, Bloc Party, Brendan Beson, Built to Spill, Camera Obscura, Capercaille, Carbon Leaf, The Cars, Cat Power, Cat Stevens, The Ceasars, Chad VanGaalen, Chantel Kreviazuk, Charlotte Martin, The Chieftains, Clannad, The Clash, Clem Snide, Clinic, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, Collective Soul, The Colour, The Concretes, The Cranberries, The Corrs, Covenant, The Cranberries, The Cure, Damien Rice, The Damnwells, Dashboard Confessional, The Darkness, Dar Williams, David Gray, Dead Can Dance, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Deerhoof, Del Amitri, Devendra Banhart, Doves, The Dresden Dolls, Earlimart, The Editors, The Eels, Eiffel 65, Eisley, Embrace, Emiliana Torrini, Enya, Era, E.S. Posthumus, Everclear, The Features, Feeder, The Feeling, Fiona Apple, The Fire Theft, Fisher, Flogging Molly, The Frames The French Kicks, Frou Frou, The Futureheads, The Go-Betweens, Grant Lee Buffalo, Grant-Lee Phillips, Helium, Hope of the States, Hot Hot Heat, Idlewild, Ima Robot, Imogen Heap, Interpol, The Irish Tenors, Iron and Wine, Ivy, Jeff Buckley, Jefferson Airplane, Jem, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Josh Groban, Juliana Hatfield, K’s Choice, The Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Kate Bush, K.D. Lang, Keane, Kent, The Killers, Kings of Convenience, The Kronos Quartet, Laura Veirs, Lifehouse, Lisa Germano, Lisa Gerrard, Live, Liz Phair, The London Suede, Longpigs, Loreena McKennitt, Mando Diao, The Mars Volta, Mates of State, Medieaval Baebes, Melissa Etheridge, Mew, Michael Penn, Mirah, Modest Mouse, Morrissey, Mum, Neko Case, Nick Drake, O.A.R., Oasis, Of Montreal, Peter Bjork and John, Peter Gabriel, Petula Clark, Phil Collins, Phish, The Pixies, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Poe, The Polyphonic Spree, The Postal Service, The Quick, Radiohead, The Ramones, Rasputina, Razorlight, Reamonn, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Regina Spektor, REM, Richard Ashcroft, Rusted Root, Sam Phillips, Sarah Brightman, Sarah McLachlan, Semisonic, Sheryl Crow, Shinedown, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Silverchair, Sinead O'Connor, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics, Suede, Sting, Supertramp, Switchfoot, Tears for Fears, Tegan and Sara, They Might Be Giants, Tom McRae, Tori Amos, Travis, Trespassers William, Tsunami Bomb, U2, VAST, Velvet Underground, The Verve, The Waterboys, Ween, The White Stripes, The Who, Wilco, Wolf Parade, XTC, Yanni, Yve Adam, The Zutons.
I'm well aware that a lot of those are too obscure for most people to know, while at the same time there are enough mainstream artists that hardcore indie rockers will hold me in disdain. Contradictions abound!
Oh, and there are also many composers, but I don't want to compile THAT list at the moment. | | Movies | Star Wars, Star Trek movies, Lord of the Rings, Signs, The Village, The Lady in the Water, An Affair to Remember, Fiddler on the Roof, The Emperor's New Groove, Jane Eyre, The Birds, the Muppet movies, The Fugitive, Independence Day, the Man From Snowy River movies, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Interpreter, King Kong, National Treasure, Serenity, Frequency. | | Television | I don't watch a lot of it, but when I do, it's mostly scifi: Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, all of the Star Treks, Firefly, X-Files, little bit of Andromeda and Farscape, etc. Also occasionally an old MacGyver episode. | | Books | Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, anything Tolkien (especially The Silmarillion), pretty near anything by Orson Scott Card (specifically the Ender's Game Saga), anything written by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, etc.), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, everything by Jane Austen, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, everything by Ray Bradbury, the Dune series by Frank Herbert, the Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester, the Attolia series by Megan Whalen Turner, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Watership Down by Richard Adams, everything by C.S. Lewis, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, the Fionavar Tapestry series by Guy Gavriel Kay, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider Haggard, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, A Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleine L'Engle, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the mysteries of Agatha Christie, Beau Geste series by P.C. Wren, Beowulf, the Icelandic sagas...etc. | | Heroes | Mostly-fictional people. |
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