I enjoy writing, reading, photography, cooking, gardening, karaoke, alcohol poisoning, benevolent world dictatorship, YouTube, harassing famous people, grrrls, candle lit dinners and moonlight walks... wait... that's not me, breaking UN arms embargos, gigolo to the rich and famous, trafficking humans, travel, smuggling drugs, overthrowing peaceful governments (HA! Fooled you. There ARE NO peaceful governments)
I am Here for:
Networking (Empire building)
Hobbies:
Recruiting Arab terrorists
Recruiting Jewish terrorists
Recruiting Christian terrorists
Terrorist recruitment in general...
Bringing about the end of this sick and dying society.
Favorite Movies:
Munich
Syriana
Apocalypse Now
Mary Poppins
Favorite TV Shows:
Don't watch TV.
Okay, that's a lie.
I watch The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, Bravo, A&E, CBC, CBCNewsWorld, BBC World Service, CNN, "How's That Made?", "Mythbusters", PBS, "Nova", "Meet The Press", "Capital Gang", CSPAN, CPAC, "Engineering an Empire", "The Daily Show", "Sharpe's Rifles", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "The Baron S. Cameron Show" on YouTube.com.
Favorite Music:
Anything but new country or new rap. Love Waylon Jennings and KRS-1; hate Kenny Chesney and 50 Cent.
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To mention a few:
The Yardbirds, The Clash, Bob Dylan, Canadian garage bands, classical music, opera, Arcade Fire, Mudhoney, Feist, Amy Winehouse, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Band, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, John Lennon, World music, Edith Piaf, The Cult, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Blues music, Jazz, the sound of My Chemical Romance screaming in pain as they die horribly...
Favorite Books:
Books and writing by and/or
The Beat writers
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Christopher Hitchens
Freud, Nietzsche, and Marx (The unHoly Trinity of Literary Criticism)
The Romantic Poets (Blake, Byron, et al)
Ernest Hemingway
Henry Miller
Contemporary Irish Literature
Modern and Ancient History
The Existentialists (Sartre, Camus, Beckett)
Classical Studies (philosophy, poetry, drama, ancient histories)
The O.E.D.
[Auto] Biographies
The Ruskies (Chekhov, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, etc. up to Solzhenitsyn and Yevtushenko)
Oreintal Poetry
Physics for Not-Quite-Dummies (Sagan, Hawking, Greene)
The Bible (a.k.a. Physics for fucking idiots)
Restoration Poetry and Drama
Shakespeare
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Rolling Stone Magazine
Vanity Fair Magazine
The Globe and Mail (online)
BBC World Service (online)
The Washington Post (online)
The New York Times (online)
I Love:
the smell of dried grass (hay, not the 'other' stuff)
I Hate:
avoidable ignorance