Optimus Primate
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Alabama, United States |
| Interests | Biology, physics, meteorology, cosmology, politics, mythology, religion, gaming, comics (J.M. Linsner, Strangers in Paradise, Liberty Meadows), and to a certain degree, philosophy -- but only that which is based on reality. |
| Favorite Movies | The Star Wars Saga, Contact, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, V for Vendetta, Almost Famous, Apollo 13, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Dish, Lion King, Lilo and Stitch, I ♥ Huckabees, Lost in Translation, The Blues Brothers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, As Good as it Gets, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, Moulin Rouge, Iron Giant, The Incredibles, The Astronaut Farmer, My Dog Skip, Monsters Inc., To Kill a Mockingbird, Kill Bill 1 and 2... and way too many others that I'm certainly going to kick myself later for forgetting. |
| Favorite Music | In no particular order): Lyle Lovett, Bob Marley, Joanna Newsom, George Harrison, The Polyphonic Spree, Paul Simon, Björk, Rolling Stones, The Beastie Boys, Elton John, George Michael (don't laugh), Rolling Stones, The Bastard Fairies, The Average White Band, Be Your Own Pet, The Talking Heads, Dwight Yoakam, The Band, The Clash, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Velvet Underground, They Might Be Giants, The Pixies, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Bob Dylan, Dire Straits, Steely Dan, Blue Man Group, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Nirvana, Tool, Sly and the Family Stone, Cream, Blind Faith, The Traveling Wilburys, Traffic, Jimi Hendrix, The Gathering, Wings, The White Stripes, Joe Satriani, Cake, The Fugees, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Dr. John, Jools Holland, Electric Light Orchestra, Beck, Venus Hum, Four Star Mary, Three Dog Night, Ray Charles, The Doors, Miles Davis, Joe Cocker, Elvis, Elvis Costello, Arcade Fire, Jon Brion, The Who, The Flaming Lips... |
| Favorite Books | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon, The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff, The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, Everything Tom Robbins has ever written, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Anything by Stephen Jay Gould (especially The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, The Panda's Thumb, The Flamingo's Smile, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, Bully for Brontosaurus, and I Have Landed), Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan, Anything by Richard Dawkins (especially The Ancestor's Tale, The Blind Watchmaker:Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design, and Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder), Anything by Richard Feynman, Anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Hunter S. Thompson's brilliant ramblings, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond |