Starhopper

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Gender Male
Location United States
Interests Astronomy, Space Exploration, History, Music, Painting with Watercolor, Baseball, Backgammon, Growing and Cooking with Herbs
Favorite Movies FAVORITE MOVIES: Ivan the Terrible, The Apostle, The Thief of Bagdad (with Douglas Fairbanks), Sideways, Flight to Mars, True Grit (both versions), Eloge de l'amour (Jean Luc Godard), An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu), Still Walking, Ballad of a Soldier, Metropolis, Faust (Murnau), Ben Hur, Master and Commander, Smoke (with Harvey Keitel), The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Dark Star, Between Two Worlds, Summer Hours, Solaris (Tarkovsky), A Canterbury Tale, They Were Expendable, Black Narcissus, Shadowlands, The Way (with Martin Sheen), The Swimmer (with Burt Lancaster), Until the End of the World FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Adventures in Paradise, Star Trek (the original series), Homicide - Life on the Streets, Foyle's War, The Twilight Zone, Seinfeld, The Wild Wild West, Gilligan's Island, The Vicar of Dibley (1st season only), McHale's Navy, Miami Vice, Rocky and Bullwinkle
Favorite Music FAVORITE MUSIC: Gustav Mahler, Richard Wagner, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Howard Hanson, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Morten Lauridsen, Maurice Ravel, John Rutter, Anglican Hymns, Simon and Garfunkel, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Seals and Crofts, Van Morrison, The Incredible String Band, Jefferson Airplane, and (of course)... The Beatles
Favorite Books FAVORITE BOOKS: The Divine Comedy (Dante), The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Catholic Church), Le Morte D'Arthur (Malory), Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot), Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis), Perelandra (Lewis), That Hideous Strength (Lewis), Moby Dick (Melville), Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman), Taliessin Through Logres (Charles Williams), The Region of the Summer Stars (Williams), The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Daniel Berrigan), The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene), The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn), Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), The Skylark Series (E.E. Smith), The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), The Worm Ouroboros (Eddison), A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth), The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame), The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann), Kim (Rudyard Kipling), The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller), Time is the Simplest Thing (Clifford D. Simak), Voyager (Stephen Pyne), The Little Prince (Saint Exupery), Epic Moon (Sheehan and Dobbins), The Winds of War/War and Remembrance (Herman Wouk)