Devotee
My blogs
| Introduction | When I realized that agnosticism wasn't exactly buoying me up through life, I decided to invent my own religion. I figure it worked for Buddha, and that guy was totally depressed even though he was some kind of prince or something. Anyway, it's had its ups and downs so far, but overall it's going pretty well. |
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| Interests | Religion, music, art, politics, love, the human form, the human mind, writing |
| Favorite Movies | The Empire Strikes Back, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Joe Versus the Volcano, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Star Wars: A New Hope, Delicatessen, Beauty and the Beast, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, just about anything by Pixar but especially The Incredibles and Wall-E, The Princess Bride, Attack of the Clones, (I insist that you are mistaken about thinking that it's a bad movie!), Star Trek 2-4, Enchanted, This Is Spinal Tap, Serenity, Casino Royale, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls |
| Favorite Music | The Beatles, (especially the White Album), Therion, Frank Black, The William Tell Overture, Amy Correia, Luca Turilli, David Bowie, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Blue Oyster Cult, Gustav Holst's The Planets, The Dead Milkmen, Steeleye Span, Blondie, Just about any disco song I can remember by name (I know it's wrong - but you don't ever get over being 13), John Barry James Bond music, The Dethalbum by Dethklok, Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 by Franz Liszt (yes it's also the Looney Tunes music), Leaves' Eyes, The Pixies, The Vapors, Queen, the original theme from Underdog, the rap remake of Underdog (one of four or five good rap songs in all of history - sorry to all rappers - that's another unbreakable predisposition from age 13), Turisas, Lumsk, The Orion Experience, Spinal Tap, Oingo Boingo, Suicidal Tendencies' first album, John Williams' Star Wars and Indiana Jones soundtracks, Alice Cooper when Alice Cooper was a band, Yes, Trace, Focus, Star Trek music from the original show and the first 4 movies, Ennio Morricone, and how could I leave off the Travelling Wilburys? |
| Favorite Books | anything by Iain M. Banks, 1984 by George Orwell, The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, The Golden by Lucius Shepherd, anything by J.D. Salinger, most of Jane Austen, most of Edgar Rice Burroughs, as an occasional guilty pleasure almost anything by Robert E. Howard, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson, Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea, Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg, anything by Alex Robinson, Our Dumb World by The Onion, and (because I'm not shy about appearing egotistical) my own latest three books |
You've got to make contact with the alien leader. How will you tell when the conversation is finished?
The alien leader will say, "I find your goddess very interesting. Go in peace, and may love be with you."