Tom

General

Internet, Movies, Reading, Dancing, Karaoke, Baseball, Language, Culture, History of Communism, Philosophy, Singing/Writing Music, Running, Finding New Food, Weight Lifting, Hiking, WWI Aviation, Travel, Building alternate communities

Music

Bands: Beatles, Superdrag, Jackson 5, Weezer, [Love] Pistols, The Carpenters, Vain, Radiohead, Teenage Fanclub, Rocket from the Crypt, Pitchfork, Oasis, Rialto, Supergrass, Travis, The Doors, Cheap Trick, Simple Plan, Alice Cooper, KISS, A*TEENS, The Beach Boys, The Velvet Underground, Journey Solo Artists: Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis, Brendan Benson, David Bowie, Rick Springfield, Barry Manilow, Paul Stanley Solo Album, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart Singers: Michael Jackson (age 14 & under), Karen Carpenter, Whitney Houston (particularly The Bodyguard soundtrack), George Michael, Louie Louie, Coco Lee, Robin Zander, Frank Sinatra, Steve Perry, Gerard Way, Kelly Clarkson Albums: Appetite for Destruction - Guns & Roses; Life - The Cardigans; A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles; Dookie - Green Day; Blue - Weezer; One Mississippi - Brendan Benson; Two Steps from the Move - Hanoi Rocks; Led Zeppelin I, The Doors, In The Valley of Dying Stars - Superdrag; Survivor When Seconds Count - Rick Springfield, Working Class Dog Instruments: The Er Hu, Piano, certain guitar tones (Rocket from the Crypt, [Love] Pistols, Rolling Stones)

Movies

Films: Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Hur, Patton, Spartacus, Gandhi, The 10 Commandments, Apocalypse Now, Beauty & The Beast (the cartoon), Thin Red Line, Titanic, Gladiator, The Patriot, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Un Coeur en Hiver, To Live, Happy Times, The Road Home, Not One Less, Ju Dou, Red Sorghum, The Empire of the Sun, Gone With the Wind, The Godfather, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner, Deer Hunter, Mean Streets, Grease, Urban Cowboy, [1977 disco movie], The Sound of Music, Copland, Xiu Xiu, Dances With Wolves, Good Will Hunting, To Live, Red Sorghum, The Story of Qiu Ju, The Road Home, Not One Less, Happy Times Directors: Kubrick, Francis Copolla, Zhang Yimou, Anh Hung Tran, Steven Spielberg

Television

Tuned out. Except for SF Giants. I rented Band of Brothers and liked that.

Books

Nietzsche, George Orwell, Milan Kundera, Laurens van der Post

Heroes

George Orwell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Laurens van der Post, Frederick Dolan, and An of course