I'm Benny.
I am Here for:
Good conversation, informed speculation.
Hobbies:
science, taiji, qigong, music, engineering, golf, daoism, video games, complexity
Favorite Movies:
GitS 2: Innocence, Blade Runner, Bicentennial Man, I..Robot, Gattaca, The Usual Suspects, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, SLAM, The Matrix 1, Star Trek, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, Minority Report, Mission Impossible 3, Stargate, The One, The Man Without a Face, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Sneakers, Yojimbo, Rashomon, Akira, Heat, The Saint, The Shadow, Gladiator, Solaris, Event Horizon, Sunshine, A Huey P. Newton Story, Carlito's Way, Batman Begins
Favorite TV Shows:
Nova, Survivor, Meet the Press, Hardball, The Situation Room, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien, The Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, The History Channel
Favorite Music:
Sam Cooke, Black Thought, Rakim, Lightnin' Hopkins, The Black Keys, Benny Blanco from the Burbs, Amadeus the Stampede, Al-Jabra, Toussaint Yeshua, Witty Wiz, Shogun Assassins, Slim Pickens
Favorite Books:
PKD, Jung, Cleary, HST, Kurzweil, Asimov, 'Foucault's Pendulum' by Umberto Eco, Dawkins, de Grey, 'The Dao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra
I Love:
everyone, everything, always, everywhere, every time.
I Hate:
no one, nobody, nothing, ever, anywhere, wherever, anytime.