Favorites
- Actor: Tom Hanks, Gene Hackman
- Actress: Sigorney Weaver
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- Anime: Witch Hunter Robin is my favorite anime series, despite its disappointing brevity. I also enjoy Ghost in the Shell. Naruto used to one of my favorites, but it is now dead to me.
- Bands: By which I mean groups whose albums I can listen to all day from end to end without skipping a track.
- Counting Crows
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Linkin Park
- My Chemical Romance
- Board Games: Checkers, Othello, Backgammon
- Books: I have a hundred different measures of literary greatness, and I could discuss them all day long. Here, I break them down by general genres. Overall, I’d have to say my very favorite book would be Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles.
- Academic:
- Rollo Mae’s The Cry for Myth
- Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth
- Avantgard: Michael Ende’s Mirror in the Mirror
- Children’s: J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
- Classic Fiction:
- English: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crueso
- French: Victor Hugo’s Les Miserable
- Italian: Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
- Russian: Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karazovs
- Spanish: Miguel DeCervante’s Don Quixote
- Comedy: Robert Aspirin’s Myth Series
- Cultural: Anneli Rufus’ Party of One: A Loner’s Manefesto
- Fantasy:
- Concept: Michael Ende’s Neverending Story
- Contemporary: Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
- Epic: JRR Tolkein’s The Hobbit
- Historical: Susan Clarke’s Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell
- Series: Robert Jordon’s Wheel of Time Series
- Urban: Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files
- Historical Fiction:
Christopher Marlowe’s The Life and Deaths of Miguel deCervantes - History: Michael Baigent’s Holy Blood, Holy Grail
- Horror: Stephen King’s The Shining
- Mystery: Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians
- Non-Fiction: John Katz’s Geeks
- Satire: Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
- Science Fiction:
- Classic: Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles
- Concept: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
- Cyber Punk: Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
- Series: Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Saga
- Shakespeare: The Tempest
- War Fiction: Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage
- Academic:
- Card Game: Gin
- Color: Black
- Comic Books:
- All-time Favorite Series: V for Vendetta or Rising Stars… maybe.
- Artists: Again, difficult…
- Cover Artist: Miriam Kim
- DC Label:
- Hero: Batman
- Mini-Series: Books of Magic
- Series: Superman/Batman, Batman
- Storyline:
- Batman R.I.P.
- Death of Superman
- The entire Parrallax storyline including Rebirth
- Villain: Joker
- Indie Labels:
- Mini-Series: Rising Stars
- Marvel Label:
- Hero: Spiderman
- Mini-Series: Origin of Wolverine
- Series: UnCanny X-Men, The Web of Spiderman
- Storylines: The Infinity Gauntlet, The Phoenix Saga
- Villain: Magneto
- Writer: Neil Gaiman
- Comic Strip: FoxTrot, The Far Side, XKCD
- Cookie: No-Bake Chocolate Drop Cookies
- Day of the Week: Thursday
- Dessert: Whatever gets the most chocolate in my mouth the quickest
- Doughnut: Chocolate cream filled Long Johns
- Drink: (Sweet) Iced Tea, followed by Dr. Pepper, then the Pepsi spectrum
- Fast Food Resteraunt: Wendy’s
- Food: CARNIE FOOD! Closely followed by Steak and french fries.
- Fruit: Apples
- Game Systems: The original Nintendo
- Gum: Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit
- Herb: Garlic
- Holiday: Halloween
- Life Long Ambition: Perfecting the Role of Evil Genious, Publishing
- Magazine: Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine
- Month: October
- Movie: I have hundred different measures, each measure has a best movie. The one consistency in my taste in movies is that I LOVE a movie with an uncliche, thought-provoking TWIST at the end. I’ll choose a post-modern film any day, and a difficult-to-follow film that makes nearly no sense over a plot that ties things up neatly by the credits. Movies shouldn’t always have a happy ending.
- Action: Matrix
- Comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Comic-Based Movie: The Dark Knight
- Crime Drama: Heist, The Thomas Crown Affair, Ocean’s Eleven
- Cult Classics: The whole damn rack is filled with my personal favorites:
Brazil, Donnie Darko, Rocky Horror Picture Show … and on and on … - Drama: The ShawShank Redemption
- Epic Military Drama: Ben Hurr
- Fantasy: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Film Noir: Dark City
- Foreign Film: Night Watch
- Horror: HellRaiser
- Literary: Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet
- Romance: You’ve Got Mail
- Satire: Dr. Strangelove
- Science Fiction: Matrix, Blade Runner
- Silient Film: La Jetee
- Suspense: Blair Witch (even though it was a rip-off of Cannibal Island)
- Western: Unforgiven
- Movie Genre:
- High-Budget Fantasy
- High-Budget Sci-Fi
- Crime with a Twist
- Musical: Phantom of the Opera
- Newspaper: The New York Times
- Novel Genre: Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Operating System: Windows XP, but at least I’m properly ashamed of it
- Past Time: Reading, Surfing the Net
- Pizza Chain: Pizza Hut, Cottage Inn
- Pizza Toppings: Supreme Pizza with Sausage
- Poem: Do you really want another sublist? Let’s just say Hamlet’s Monologue
- Radio Station: National Public Radio (NPR)
- Radio Program: Science Friday with Ira Plato
- Resteraunt Chain: Outback Steakhouse
- Season: Autumn
- Smells: Autumn Leaves, Campfire Smoke, Sizzling Steak, Fresh Sheets, New Books, New Leather, and Pretty Girls’ Hair if I don’t get smacked for smelling it.
- Soup: Chicken and Dumplings
- Sushi: Hirami
- Television Series: I watch a lot of TV, mostly sci-fi.
- Anthology: The original Twilight Zone
- Cartoon: Batman The Animated Series
- Comedy: Big Bang Theory, The Middle Man
- Crime Drama: All the Law and Order series
- Cult Comedy: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Documentary: I ♥ the History Channel
- Drama: ER
- Game Show: The Price is Right!
- Late Night Talk Show: The Daily Show
- Sci-Fi: I’ve probably watched every episode of Babylon 5 a dozen
times and, before that, I was hooked on Star Trek the Next Generation,
but I’ll watch just about any sci-fi series on television. - Urban Fantasy: Carnivale
- Video Games:
- Computer: Whatever just came out
- Game Boy: Tetris
- MMORPG: World of Warcraft
- N64: 007, Super Smash Brothers
- NES: Super Mario Bros, Contra
- Super Nintendo: Mortal Combat
- X-Box: Halo, Halo 2, Fable
- X-Box 360: Halo 3
- Weather: Solid grey overcast, slightly cool with strong winds
- Web Comics: XKCD
