Artists: Jimi Hendrix, Fatboy Slim, Rob Zombie, Moby
Bands: Jimi Hendrix Experience; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Pink Floyd; Simon & Garfunkel; Four Tops, Planet P Project. Creedence Clearwater Revival, AC/DC, Blue Oyster Cult, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Deep Purple, ZZ Top, Fleetwood Mac, Grand Funk Railroad, Vanilla Fudge, The Zombies, etc. . .
Current Favorite Artists / Bands: The Zombie & the Fatboy, Dirty Vegas & Moby
Favorite Song: tossup between Beethoven's Seventh Symphony (second movement), Mike Oldfield's "Ommadawn", & Fatboy Slim's "Renegade Master"
Favorite Album: Aphrodite's Child: "666"
Favorite Music Video:
(professional)
tossup between Fatboy Slim's "Rockafeller Skank" & Rob Zombie's "Feel So Numb"
(amateur)
numerous adaptaions of past hits in different genres, but most predominantly the videos created by "Godzilla2themaxx" at YouTube.com
Current Favorite Artists / Bands:
anything by Akira Kurosawa (especially "Ran" & "Rashomon"; all the Godzilla movies (except for the American remake a few years back); anything with Sean Connery or Christopher Lambert
Favorite TV Shows
MSNBC's Hardball & Countdown, C-SPAN & C-SPAN 2, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report: watch each of these and you'll learn more about this nation (and the world) more than anywhere else
Favorite Books
This cannot be answered: I have too many favorites in too many genres, from the Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh" up to now: religious, philosophical, scientific, fantasy, science fiction, satrie, classical, etc.
Favorite Quote
"What is, is not; what is not, is." - The Hsinhsinming
"Attackers are working hard to take over the computers used to access Facebook and other social-networking sites. The dangerous Koobface worm is among the malware running on the site, and it attempts to turn users and friends into zombie botnets. A security analyst urged Facebook users to run antivirus software and being careful about links."
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