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| Hobbies | I have a passion for all forms of graphic design and own and operate Studio 930 Intermedia, specializing in design: website design & development, branding, identity, marketing, advertising, promotional products & apparel and other goodies. In service of design, I accept all inquiries and will provide free quotes. You may contact me directly at 940-368-3626. I also have a companion fervor for filmmaking. I recently completed my first film, the Gothic western drama "Shroud" and am currently working on other material for a second production. A dedicated gym fixture, I love working out (3x week usually) and have practiced various forms of martial arts since I was 8, most recently Seven Star Praying Mantis Kung-Fu under Sifu Steve Cottrell in Fort Worth, Texas. I am currently seeking a progressive Sayoc Kali knife fighting training in D/FW. I love art, poetry, design, illustration, sparring, travel, learning, music, debate, philosophy, romance, hiking and mountain climbing, swimming and hopefully someday scuba diving. |
| Favorite Books | A read a lot of books, but these are the ones I re-read as I find their value extreme: This is another very long list but it includes: Paradiso: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Essential Shakespeare Handbook (Leslie Dunton-Downer & Alan Riding), the King James Bible, Moby Dick (Herman Melville), The Rogets Thesaurus (Berkley), A Dictionary of Superstitions (Opie & Tatem), The Cambridge Factfinder – 3rd Edition & Forward (Cambridge), Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic (James West Davidson, William E. Gienapp, Christine Leigh Heyrman, Mark H. Lytle and Michael B. Stoff), The Highly Selective Dictionary & Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate (Eugene Ehrlich), The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Karl Sabbagh), Signs, Symbols & Omens (Raymond Buckland), The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Arthurian Legends (Ronan Coghlan), The Comprehensive Applications of Chin Na (Dr. Yang), The Collected Works of Anne Bradstreet, The City of God [also De Civitate Dei] (Augustine of Hippo), The New Atlantis (Sir Francis Bacon), The Education of the Human Race (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing — MAJOR influence on my life), The Critique of Pure Reason, Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces, and The Strife of the Faculties 1798 (all three by Immanuel Kant), The Iliad & The Odyseey (Homer), The Æneid (Virgil), Paradise Lost (John Milton), The Collected Works of William Blake, Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), 1) Genesis and the Big Bang, 2) The Science of God & 3) God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along (all three by Gerald L. Schroeder), National Review, The Federalist Papers (Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, principally), George Washington's diary & journal (Amazing!), A Collection of Puritan Prayers (2008), Guide for the Perplexed (Maimonides), Collected Works of Nahmanides & Commentary (2008), The Talmud, Greek-Hebrew Interliinear Bible, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Charles Seife), The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero (Robert Kaplan & Ellen Kaplan), The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework (Hervey Garrett Smith), Nuclear Radiation Physics, 2nd Edition (R. E Lapp & H. L. Andrews), The Order of Things (Barbara Ann Kipfer), The Biochemical Basis for Neuropharmacology (Jack R. Cooper, Floyd E. Bloom, Robert H. Roth ��" one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read), The World of Mathematics, Vol. 1 (Simon & Schuster), Little Nemo (Winsor McKay), The Philosophy of the 16th & 17th Centuries (Richard H. Pupkin), The Portable Blake (Alfred Kazin), 1,000 Years / 1,000 People (Barnes & Nobles), The Sea Chart (John Blake), Dictionary of Difficult Words (Barnes & Nobles), Watership Down (Richard Adams), Ten Things You Need To Know About Islam (Ron Rhodes), Mathematical Fun & Puzzles (Jack Frohlichstein), High Speed Healing (Rodale), The Ultimate Book of Number Puzzles (Kenneth Kelsey), Life Goes to the Movies (Time/Life), Illustrator’s Reference Manual of Nudes, The Complete Book of Horses, The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy), The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas), Popular Justice (R. Walker), Mathematical Tables & Formulas, The Rationalists: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Four Texts on Socrates (West & West Translators), Age of Fable (Bullfinch), Knots (Alexei Sossinsky), The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1 ��" 2nd Edition, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran), and of course the unimpeachable Collected Works of Gilbert Keith Chesterton — simply amazing! Whew — well, that's the top shelf. Underneath all that are tons of science journals, medical publications, books on genetics, law, biology, geography, astronomy, cosmology, physics, magnetism, ethics, religion, graphic design, film, and hundreds of essays, shorts stories and commentaries and a whole lot more stuff. There are not enough years in a life to read everything that should be read. |
| Favorite Bands / Musician | I really do have an eclectic taste with regard to music, but I prominently enjoy classical, 60's-70's and even some 80's stuff. I am a huge fan of classical music — all of them: Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Grieg, Strauss, Khachaturian, Copland, Vivaldi, Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, Liszt, Schubert, Brahms, Bizet, Puccini, Debussy, Holst, Haydn, Pergolesi, Johann Pachelbel…the usual suspects. I like Renaissance, Baroque a little less, Class and Romantic is awesome. Recently I have discovered Gyorgy Ligeti. Big fan of Elvis and I think Regina Spektor is absolutely a breath of fresh air in the modern pop scene. I pick and choose now. |
| Favorite Movies | Wow, this is a long list with lots of qualification, but the usual contenders are John Boorman's Excalibur (1980), Patton, Braveheart, Monsters Ball, Jacob's Ladder, High Tension, The Shawshank Redemption, The Proposition (2005), Slingblade, The Orphanage (El Orfanato), Under The Tuscan Sun, The Way of the Gun, The Bruce Lee Catalog (Fists of Fury, The Chinese Connection, Return of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon), Alien, Blade Runner, The Passion of the Christ, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Ben-Hur, Star Trek II, True Lies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Replacements (don't ask), The Matrix, Superman (1979), The Incredibles, Key Largo, Metropolis (1926), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Forrest Gump, The Edge, Dr. Strangelove, Meet Joe Black, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Quick and The Dead, Underworld, Hellboy, 1941, It's a Wonderful Life, Blade, The Man with the Golden Gun, Predator, Die Hard, The Austin Powers trilogy, 300, Constantine, Tears of the Sun, Capricorn One, Casablanca, No Country for Old Men, Lake Placid (for some strange reason), La Vie En Rose, The American President, Raising Arizona, The Upside of Anger, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sand Pebbles, Walk the Line, Swordfish (odd, I know)…and others. |
| Comments and Things Worth Noting | I am complex, and I am one of the good guys. |
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