| General | Archaeology: Ancient seafaring cultures, pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contacts, the theory of pre-Siberian American Aborigines, origins of the Canary Islanders, ancient cities now underwater, migrations during the last glacial maximum
Travel: Been to Europe (14 countries), Costa Rica 2X, Panama, Peru, Ecuador 3X, Galapagos Islands 2X, Brazil 2X. Want to go to Italy (again), Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia, Anywhere in SE or Central Asia, former Eastern Bloc.
Music: Playing with my organs [FARFISA (x2), VOX, Roland], electric pianos (WURLITZER, RHODES, PIANET, HARPSICHORD, CLAVINET), collecting records, Incredibly Strange album art, learning the blues scales, also see below. When I have have friends over, I like to play really obscure avanty-gardy music to drum in the fact that I'm so cutting edge, or Bill Kelly, Rex and Dave the Spazz when I have a party.
Art: Lowbrow, American Primitive (Outsider / thrift store art), Classical, Renaissance, modern
Language: German and its variants, Low German (Plattdeutsch), Dutch, Nordic languages, Spanish and its variants, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, Mandarin Chinese, English and its variants, dialectology, etymology, doublespeak, ridiculous businesspeak, triple entendres, anagrams, chuckling at, but not pointing out abuse's of apostrophe's and "overused" quotation marks.
Politics: I'm a libertarian. Libertarians are consistent believers in individual rights; they are fiscally conservative and socially tolerant. I don't advocate big government in any form, including foreign policy. Libertarians are a diverse group, but they all agree that the State should stay out of your wallet and out of your bedroom. Naturally, I supported RON PAUL for President and will likely be voting Libertarian in the general election. Recommended links:
The Cato Institute
reason magazine
Other: VEGETARIAN / healthy food (I've had no meat since January 2006), learning CHINESE, defying the minions of the State, fixing my house STILL (I've been keeping up with the Munsters, not the Joneses), antique and historic firearms (I have a C96 Broomhandle and SVT40, but would die for an StG44), exuberant meals, fine wines, ocean drives, Saucy Susan Duck Sauce, cooking with cumin, curry and basil | | Music | Angry Samoans, The Animals, The Archies, Antiseen, Hasil Adkins, ARIES (Germany), Banana Splits, Billy Boloby, Blowfly, Boyce & Hart, The Blue Oyster Cult, Cambodian Rocks, The Chants R & B (NZ), Chocolate Watchband, The Claude Pepper Blues Explosion, THE COASTERS, King Coleman, The Cramps, Credence Clearwater Revival, The Creepy T's, The Delusionaires, Dengue Fever, The Deviants, Duplex Planet, Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, The Electric Prunes, The Evidents, F, The Fall, Flamin' Groovies, The Fleshtones, THE GRIS GRIS, The Hatebombs, The Heatseekers, Knights of the New Crusade, Laramie Dean, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Mavi Isiklar, The Kinks, Los Manganzoides, The MC5, The Modern Lovers, Thee Monarchy Men, The Monkees, The Monks, The Move, Mr. Airplane Man, Os Mutantes, The Orange Alabaster Mushroom, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Pink Floyd, Perez Prado, Roach Motel, Los Saicos, Shocking Blue, Ohio Express, Orlando Julius, The Ramones (who doesn't?), The Seeds, Shadows of Knight, Shin Jung Hyun & Yup Juns, Small Faces, The Sonics, Southern Culture on the Skids, Southern Flaw, The Stooges, The Turtles, The Troggs, The Undertones, T. Valentine, The Velvet Underground, We the People, Andre Williams, The Woggles, The Yardbirds, old blues, red hot lo-fi rockabilly, songs about chickens, mod, soul, bubblegum, proto-punk, psych, Easy Tempo compilations, soundtracks, weirdness, audio experimentation/mixing, Mondo garage punk, WFMU.org | | Movies | Amelie, The Blues Brothers, Bubba Ho-tep, Deliverance, Gone with the Wind, Ray, Roman Holiday, A Bout de Souffle, Yellow Submarine, The Dirty Dozen, Lost in Translation, R & R High School, On the Waterfront, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Pulp Fiction, Seven Samurai, Team America: World Police, zombie movies, films featuring Mantan Moreland, King of the Zombies, movies by: H.G. Lewis, Ed Wood, Fellini, Mario Bava, French New Wave from the likes of Truffaut and Godard, Mondo Macabro movies, Santo movies, and international horror films from the '60s and '70s with bad dubbing & spooky baroque music. | | Television | Amos 'n' Andy, Stargate SG-1, the Prisoner, Bewitched, GHOUL A GO-GO, Hogan's Heroes, H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, Mr. Show, Misterjaw, Ren & Stimpy, Space Ghost, Jonny Quest, Grape Ape, Partridge Family 2200 A.D., Rome, Simpsons, Futurama, the Munsters, old Scooby Doo (pre-Scrappy), Sanford and Son, Laugh-In, CNN, C-Span | | Books | The Fountainhead, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Book of the Fallacy, Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth (I contributed a chapter in it!), The Da Vincky Coinkydinky, In Search of the Indo-Europeans, The Mother Tongue, The Difference Engine, Hoaxes and Scams, Human Action, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, Tao Te Ching, The Tao of Computing, Tragedy and Hope, The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, The Enterprise of Law, Teach Yourself Books Dutch Dictionary, Piano For Dummies, System Mauser - A Pictorial History of the Model 1896 Self-Loading Pistol, books by: Lester Bangs, James Bovard, Ludwig von Mises, Robert Anton Wilson, Hunter S. Thompson, H.L. Mencken, Robert Heinlein, ah, too many good ones to list | | Heroes | Tom Palmer, Graham Hancock, Thor Heyerdahl, Thomas Jefferson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo, Francisco D'Anconia, Ron Paul, Willie P. Richardson, NANCYMAE MAGANDA
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