Interests

• writing
• photography
• cooking
• movies
• chess
• traveling
• poker
• hiking
• backpacking
• canoeing
• kayaking
• camping
• whitewater rafting
• sports
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

This seems difficult to answer. I'll go with some of my favorites from each.

Music: The Temptations, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Credence Clearwater Revival, Miles Davis, Chingon, Queen, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon, Fleetwood Mac, Notorious BIG, Warren G, Nine Inch Nails, George Jones, Carla Bruni, Thelonious Monk, Ed Sheeran, Tracy Chapman, Fun, Chopin, etc.

Books: Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell), Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon), The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas), The Divine Comedy (Dante Alghieri), In Patagonia (Bruce Chatwin), 1984 (George Orwell), Armageddon in Retrospect (Kurt Vonnegut), Just Kids (Patti Smith), Meditations (Marcus Aurelius), Life Together (Dietrich Bonhoeffer), The Gospel of Matthew, Tao Te Ching (Laozi), The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien), Anna Kerenina (Leo Tolstoy), etc.

Movies: Casablanca, Touch of Evil, The Birds, The Producers (Nathan Lane/Matthew Broderick), Dr. Strangelove, Apocalypse Now, Amalie, The Fifth Element, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, The Lord of the Rings, Doctor Zhivago, The Fountain, Snatch, Shaun of the Dead, Cabin in the Woods, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Shop on Main Street ( Czech), RAN (Akira Kurosawa), Inglorious Bastards/Django Unchained, Man with No Name Trilogy, The Skin I Live In, Disney's Robin Hood, Galaxy Express 999, Vampire Hunter D, Spirited Away, Pontypool, Tropic Thunder/Dodgeball/Zoolander, Hair!, Walk Hard, Spartacus, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone with the Wind, etc.

Television: Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Wayward Pines, Twin Peaks, Mindy Project, Parks and Rec, 30 Rock, Ballers, Spartacus, The 100, The Wire, Homeland, Lost, Supernatural, The Twilight Zone, Penny Dreadful, Shameless, Black Mirror, Cuckoo, Rake (Australian), Band of Brothers, X Files, Last Man on Earth, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Better Call Saul, Archer, The Venture Bros., etc.