Zeno

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Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation freelance writer
Location Earth, Southeast North America, United States
Introduction Writer,Artist, Cartoonist, Secular Humanist, Libertarian Socialist, Philosophical Taoist, Non-theist/Atheist currently working on a series of speculative/science fiction novels and graphic novels with suspense,horror,noir, fantasy,anarchistic, humanistic, and Taoist themes among others.I plan to expand into a larger site some day to put up my novels. "Follow where reason leads." Zeno of Citium
Interests Movies, books, comics/graphic novels, anime, science fiction, science fact, philosophy, politics, culture(including pop), nature and animals, disability rights, human rights, peace, movement building
Favorite Movies I break my favorites down by genre and director. Ghostbusters-Back to the Future-E, T. are my 80's trinity at top of favs.2001 Kubrick-A Space Odyssey, Dr, Strangelove, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Everything Spielberg up to/including Shindler's List, Butch and Sundance, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Blues Brothers, All Star Wars and most Star Trek, Blade Runner, Metropolis, Psycho, The Birds, Citizen Kane, Lost Horizon, The Day the Earth stood still, Godfathers 1&2, Goodfellas, Scarface, Roger Corman's Poe movies, Night of the living dead, Goonies, Big Trouble in Little China(most of John Carpenter's films), Gremlins 1&2, anything Terry Gilliam esp, Brazil, Monty Python, Most Tim Burton's work, Kevin Smith, anything Hitchock, anything Kurasawa, anything Hayao Miyazaki and/or produced by Studio Ghibli, Hammer Films, Sergio Leone, any noir
Favorite Music 70's/80's rock, Industrial, hip hop, funk, techno, heavy metal, rockabilly, acid house, new wave--- Korn, Tool, Public Enemy, the coup, PFunk, Disturbed, Godsmack, Rammstein, Rage angainst the machine, Lords of Acid, Peaches, Jurassic 5, Mos Def, Negativeland, Blue Oyster Cult, Tears for fears, new order, Ac-DC, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Metallica before they finked, Megadeth, KLF, Juno Reactor, The Cure, Prodigy, Rob Zombie, NIN, Marilyn Manson, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, REM, Bobby Darin, Wu-Tang Clan
Favorite Books Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, Arthur C.Clark's "2001" series, Star Wars "Thrawn Trilogy" by Timothy Zahn, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Star Trek and Babylon 5 spinoffs, several books/essays of Gore Vidal, "The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence" and "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Carl Sagan, Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order, Chomsky on Anarchism, Media Control, 9-11 by Noam Chomsky, "Jihad vs. McWorld" by Benjamin Barber, "One-Dimensional Man", "Repressive Tolerance", "Reason and Revolution" by Herbert Marcuse, several works of Alfred Adler, works of Emma Goldman, "Who Is Black?: One Nation's Definition" by F. James Davis, "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black" by Gregory Howard Williams, Mikhail Bakunin's "God and the State", "Macbeth" and "Hamlet" by The Bard, "The Illiad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, "The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?"by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, S. E. Hinton's novels "Moral Politics: "How Liberals and Conservatives Think" by George Lakoff. "The Wisdom of Insecurity", "What is Tao?" "Tao: The Watercourse Way", by Allan Watts, "Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans" and "The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century" by Farai Chideya works of Émile Durkheim