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American history, French history, Russian history, Hapsburg history, the Gilded Age, global economics, aviation history, world religions, astrophysics, thermodynamics, quantum theory, relativity, astronomy, starting collections, organizing things to the point of obsession, listening to and writing music, sports, Monaco, family trees of monarchs and discovering who is interrelated with who, Lennonology, being nocturnal, covering 80's songs on my acoustic. Simply put, I like a lot of boring things.

Movies: 3:10 to Yuma, 61*, After the Sunset, Airplane!, The American President, Amistad, Apollo 13, As Good As It Gets, A Beautiful Mind, Beauty & the Beast, Big Fish, Blazing Saddles, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Breach, The Breakfast Club, Bridget Jones' Diary 1 & 2, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Bond movies, Casper, The Cider House Rules, Cinderella Man, Citizen Kane, The Departed, The Dreamers, Dumb & Dumber, Empire of the Sun, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Forrest Gump, Friday, Goodfellas, Home Alone 1 & 2, Hook, Insomnia, Jackie Brown, Jerry Maguire, Jumanji, Jurassic Park, The Killing Fields, La Bamba, Ladder 49, The Last Samurai, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Love Actually, Major League II, Mallrats, Marie Antoinette, Meet The Parents, Mission: Impossible, Mrs. Doubtfire, Mulan, No Country For Old Men, North By Northwest, The Notebook, Notting Hill, Office Space, Open Range, Patch Adams, The Patriot, The Pianist, Pleasantville, Pretty Woman, Psycho, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ravenous, Rear Window, The Right Stuff, A River Runs through It, Rounders, The Sandlot, Saving Private Ryan, Say Anything, Schindler's List, Sense & Sensibility, Serendipity, Seven Years in Tibet, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Sideways, Silence of the Lambs, The Sixth Sense, Stand By Me, Star Wars series, Terminator 2, That Thing You Do!, There Will Be Blood, There's Something About Mary, Toy Story, The Truman Show, Vertigo, Wayne's World 1 & 2, Wedding Crashers. TV Shows: 60 Minutes, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Arrested Development, Band of Brothers, The Bob Newhart Show, Coach, The Critic, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Doug, Family Guy, From the Earth to the Moon, Futurama, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Gumby, Happy Days, Home Improvement, Horatio Hornblower, I Love Lucy, Jeopardy, King of the Hill, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Married With Children, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, National Geographic, Newhart, Pardon the Interruption, Playmakers, Pride and Prejudice (the Colin Firth mini-series), Poirot, Reno 911, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Rugrats, Saved By The Bell, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, South Park, Sportscenter, The Staircase, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Underdog, The Wonder Years, World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, old WWF wrestlemanias.

Bands in all caps are my absolute favorites: ALICE IN CHAINS, American Football, Amon Amarth, The Appleseed Cast, The Arcade Fire, THE BEACH BOYS, THE BEATLES, BLIND MELON, Bob Marley, BRUCE HORNSBY, Bruce Springsteen, BUDDY HOLLY, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD, Cat Stevens, Chicago, Crosby Stills & Nash [& Young], The Cure, Damien Rice, Darkthrone, Dave Brubeck Trio, David Gray, Decapitated, The Delfonics, Dire Straits, DISPATCH, The Doors, The Eagles, ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, Elliott Smith, Elton John, EVA CASSIDY, Explosions in the Sky, Extreme, Faith No More, Farewell, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Sinatra, FREDERIC CHOPIN, GEORGE HARRISON, Glen Phillips, GRATEFUL DEAD, Guns n Roses, Hammer No More the Fingers, James Taylor, Janes Addiction, JEFF BUCKLEY, Jimi Hendrix, Joan of Arc, John Coltrane, JOHN LENNON, SEAN LENNON, Led Zeppelin, Make Believe, Megadeth, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, MORRISSEY, NAT KING COLE, NEIL YOUNG, New Radicals, NICK DRAKE, OPETH, Outkast, OWEN, Pantera, Piebald, Pink Floyd, The Police, OWEN, PORCUPINE TREE, Prince, Pulp, Queen, R.E.M., RANCID, The Rolling Stones, Rooney, SAY ANYTHING, Slayer, SMASHING PUMPKINS, THE SMITHS, STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, Superstitions of the Sky, Taking Back Sunday, Te, TEXAS IS THE REASON, Thin Lizzy, Third Eye Blind, Tim Buckley, Toad the Wet Sprocket, TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, TOTO, THE TRAVELING WILBURYS, Tyrone Wells, U2, Van Halen, Victor Wooten, Weezer. John Lennon is, far and away, my all time favorite musician ever. E-v-e-r. I talk about him almost constantly. I love him.

I like a lot of books, but I can't list them all so here are some authors I like: Stephen E. Ambrose, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Vincent Bugliosi, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Julius Caesar, Siri Campbell, Truman Capote, Jimmy Carter, Iris Chang, Anton Chekhov, Ron Chernow, e.e. cummings, Lionel Dahmer, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Deborah D'work, John Feinstein, Shelby Foote, Benjamin Franklin, Antonia Fraser, Robert Frost, Ernest J. Gaines, Peter Golenbock, Robert J. Groden, Dave Halberstam, Stephen Hawking, Homer, Henrik Ibsen, John Irving, Alex Kershaw, Meriwether Lewis & William Clark, Livy, Machiavelli, Norman Maclean, Jean-Paul Marat, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Frank McCourt, David McCollough, Moliere, Edward R. Murrow, Pablo Neruda, Alexander Pope, Daniel Quinn, Erwin Rommel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis de Rouvoy duc de Saint-Simon, William Shakespeare, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Art Spiegelman, John Steinbeck, Bram Stoker, Alexis de Tocqueville, Leo Tolstoy, Sun Tzu, Elie Wiesel.