Rory Cripps
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | New Port Richey, Florida, United States |
| Introduction | I'm about fifty percent of the following (plus or minus three percent): an autodidact; a reactionary; a relic from a different age; a Republican; a mean-spirited and insensitive lout; a good shot; a poster-boy for common mistakes in life; a funny guy; literate; articulate; a person that's read every book in his book collection. . . . . In other words, I'm no different from half of you (plus or minus three percent) . . . . As far as the other fifty percent of you go (plus or minus three percent), you're either pretty smart or pretty dumb. I suspect, however, that more of you are dumber than smarter, HA! The one thing that I'm very good at is pissing people off, without even trying. Perhaps I acquired that questionable talent from listening to talk-radio every day throughout the past twenty years. Currently, my favorite talk-radio host is Michael Savage. My fondness for Savage probably has to do with the fact that he grew up in Queens New York just a few miles from where I grew up "when the chrome was thick (and shiny too) and the women were straight." |
| Interests | Reading, writing, talk-radio, polemics, playing the guitar, composing, arranging and producing music, cooking, economics, demographics, sociology, politics, statistical analysis, mechanical engineering. |
| Favorite movies | A Bronx Tale, Apocalypse Now, As Good As It Gets, Bad Day At Black Rock, Dead Poets Society, Dirty Dancing, Forest Gump, Good Fellows, High Noon, It's A Wonderful Life, Mr. Holland's Opus, Mrs. Doubtfire, Once Upon A Time In America, Pale Rider, Saving Private Ryan, Road House, Shane, That Thing You Do, The Deer Hunter, The Godfather Part I and II, The Karate Kid, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Prince Of Tides, The Searchers, Uncommon Valor, Unforgiven. |
| Favorite music | AC/DC, AJA (the entire album by Steely Dan), Andres Segovia,Bach(Goldberg Variations, Glen Gould version), Badfinger, BB King,Beachboys, Beatles, Beethoven (piano sonatas),Blink-182,Eric Clapton,Four Seasons, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, John Williams (classical guitarist), John Coltrane, Larry Carlton, Linkin Park, Martina McBride, Miles Davis, Phil Spector, Ronettes, Roy Buchannan, Sarah Evans, Shania Twain, The Rascals, The Rolling Stones, Toby Keith, Tom Petty, Tommy Tedesco (session guitarist). |
| Favorite books | A Confederacy Of Dunces, A History of the American people, A History of the Jews, A Man In Full,A Stillness at Appomattox,Bible,Democracy In America, Don Quixote,Federalist Papers, For Whom The Bell Tolls,Gotti: Rise And Fall, Hannibal,Heart Of Darkness,Hitler And Stalin: Parallel Lives, Jane Eyre,Lonesome Dove, Main Street, Moby Dick, Modern Times: The World From The Twenties To The Nineties,Moon Of Bitter Cold, Secrets Of The Temple: How The Federal Reserve Runs The Country,Silent Coup,Streets Of Laredo, Three Soldiers, The Bonfire Of The Vanities, The Blue Book Of The John Birch Society,The Bureau: The Secret History Of The FBI, The Cider House Rules,The Hotel New Hampshire, The Intellectuals, The Last Mafioso, The Old Man and the Sea, The Red Badge of Courage,The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich,The Silence of the Lambs,The World According to Garp,To Kill A Mockingbird,Uncle Tom's Cabin, Until I Find You,You Can't Go Home Again. |