| General | Blissed out that our beautiful little girl Ellie has arrived safe and sound into our lives. We are incredibly blessed. Now back your regularly scheduled program.... Also, I dig Trains, Righteously good food, Connecting with people, High quality and durable things made of wood, Cool antiques and oddities, The universe of my sleeping brain, Making music, Musical instruments of all kinds and the people who play them well, Unfathomable cosmic distances and geologic scales of time, Appreciating details, France, Scooters, Space ships, Learning stuff, Driving a tractor when the opportunity presents itself, Seti@Home, people smarter than me, and of course... sounding like a pompous twit who thinks he's deep. ;-) | | Music | Top 42: AC/DC, Ali Farka Toure, Baaba Maal, The Bad Plus, The Beatles, Bedhead, Beck, CCR, The Chameleons U.K., The Cure, Dead Can Dance, Devo, Dinosaur Jr., Dreamend, El Ten Eleven, Explosions in the Sky, The Fall, Fugazi, GY!BE, Hammel on Trial, Hum, Iron and Wine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Joy Division, Men At Work, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mono, Nusrat Fetah Ali Khan, Pavement, Pinback, The Police, Rein Sanction, Robyn Hitchcock, Scenic, Stereolab, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Wall Of Voodoo, Yo La Tango.
More... | | Movies | Top 21: Amelie, Apocolypse Now, Barton Fink, Blade Runner, Brazil, Brimstone and Tickle, Darjeeling Limited, The Donner Party, Down By Law, Garden State, The Jerk, Koyaanisqatsi, Le Ballon Rouge, The Life Aquadic, Polyester, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand and Deliver, Star Wars: Episode 5, The Station Agent, Time Bandits.
More... | | Television | Top 10: The Family Guy, Firefly, H.R. Pufnstuf, Homicide: Life on the Street, Mork and Mindy, The Muppet Show, The Simpsons, Taxi, Trailer Park Boys, Twin Peaks.
More... | | Books | Top 20: A Clockwork Orange, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Ages of Gaia, Blue Highways, The Chronicles of Narnia, Desert Solitare, The End of Nature, Fahrenheit 451, The Giving Tree, The Hobbit, Le Petit Prince, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Next, The Panda's Thumb, The Phantom Tollbooth, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Stark, The Stranger, Tao Te Ching, Watership Down, The Way to Love.
More... | | Heroes | My wife, our daughter Ellie, my brother, my parents, their parents, my great uncle--the inventor, my other great uncle--the dream scientist, my Ancestors and my Friends. Also Bill Moyers, Barack Obama, Albert Camus, Tavis Smiley, Stuart McLean, Keith Olbermann, John Hodgman, Ed Hammel, Joss Whedon, Christopher Walken, Anthony de Mello, Dr. Cornel West, David Best, Lily Tomlin, Tina Fey, Stewart Brand, and Jon Stewart. But wait, there's more... Anyone who believes as I do that the Earth could last we humans until the Sun gets too hot or we fall victim to some great comet smack down and that "Armageddon" is avoidable, unnecessary and not part of God's plan. Okay, sure, comets are part of God's plan, but you know what I mean. |
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