Aris, Lyla, Kay, Rachel Mercel, Michelle, Daia, James and Claudia Morden, Davvi, Jamen and Marthenal and Gartel and Shayna and Zeltihras and Roderic and Jesstica and Frederick and Daret Tyran, Richard III, as well as all the characters from my personal alternate universes of Babylon 5 and Gargoyles, and the NeverEnding Babylon 5 Story. Zibblsnrt also has timeshare in my head somewhere, and a few others are renting space.
Types of Music I Enjoy:
A capella, acid, acid jazz, acid punk, acoustic, acoustic mayhem, alternative rock, alternative, ambient, anime, avantgarde, ballad, bass, beat, bebop, big band, black metal, bluegrass, blues, British pop, cabaret, Celtic, chamber music, chorus, classical, club, comedy, country, crossover, cult, dance, dance hall, disco, dream, drum and bass, drum solo, duet, easy listening, electronic, ethnic, fast fusion, filk, folk, folk-rock, folklore, freestyle, funk, fusion, game, gospel, Gothic, hard rock, heavy metal, hip-hop, house, humor, industrial, instrumental, jazz, jazz/funk, Jpop, jungle, Latin, lo-fi, meditative, metal, musical, national folk, native American, new age, new wave, oldies, opera, polka, pop, pop-rock, progressive, psychedelic, punk, R&B, rap, rave, reggae, retro, revival, rhythmic soul, rock, Rock & Roll, salsa, samba, satire, showtunes, ska, slow jam, slow rock, sonata, soul, soundtrack, space, swing, symphonic rock, symphony, synthpop, tango, techno, techno-industrial, trance, tribal, trip-hop, vocal, and much more!
Artists I Like:
Look at the above list. Do you really want me to list artists I like?
Current favorite songs:
Dominion Road by The Mutton Birds, One Good Drop of Poison and I Don't Remember by Captain Tractor, and Leaving Strathconon by Runrig.
People I have stuff signed by, in no particular order:
the cast of the 2000 tour of Les Miserables, Kevin Smith, Tad Williams, Phillip Pullman, Larry Niven, Anne McCaffrey, Ed Wasser, The Waybacks, David Campbell, Michael Zanabili, Ben Bova, Dan Simmons, Captain Tractor, and Bill Clinton.
Favorite Short Story:
A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny.
Stuff I Worship:
The Goddess and Her Consort. Apart from that, Godiva Chocolates, really cool effects in music that make your hair stand on end, really sexy tenors with curly brown hair, french vanilla ice cream, the combined Spirits of the Internet, Murphy, Eris, Actual Money, Actual Time, and Actual Writing sk1llz.
Books that People Need To Read, in no particular order:
Foriegner by C.J. Cherryh, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, The Golden Key by Kate Elliot, Melanie Rawn, and Jennifer Roberson, Otherworld by Tad Williams, Roadmarks, Eye of Cat, and This Immortal by Roger Zelazny, Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge, Hyperion and The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons, The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Gun With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem, and finally, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.
Books that I Need To Read:
Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens... Probably some others, too, but that'll do for a start.
Books that People Don't Need to Read:
More than one of anything by Emily Devenport, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Have Spacesuit, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein.
Political Stance:
I *still* hate George Bush.
Most Likely to Do In Copious Spare Time:
Write, read, play guitar, dance, build stuff, watch Babylon 5, and draw.
Finishing my education, learning how to play the guitar well, learning how to draw realistically, writing a complete novel, learning how to take nice photographs, learning how to edit a movie, learning just what the heck went on in the Spanish Civil War, seeing every play Shakespeare wrote performed one way or another, reading all the books on my list, figuring out the secrets of the universe, rewriting Richard III, and learning Latin.
Textkit. And if Cherryh wasn't formal enough for you, free texts on Latin and Ancient Greek.
Archive.org. Includes video archives(the Prelinger archives!), audio(the live music archive!) and web-based content(the Wayback machine!) - terrific site.
The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, with what is still the best episode guide out there. Still updating with news about the DVD sets, if little else.
Your full US Zip Code. In case you ever need to know the 4-digit extention for something... oh, important.
The Victoria Cross Reference. The Victoria Cross is "the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces." The bios pretty much prove that real action heros do exist. And the ones that survive get the Victoria Cross.
The American Ballet Theatre's Online Dictionary. The coolest ballet site ever. A list of terms used in classical ballet, their definitions, and - get this - real ABT students and staff performing the terms so that they make sense. Truly awesome.
The Astronomy Picture of the Day. Sometimes truly awesome, sometimes a miss, but they have archives going back to mid-95, so there's probably something in there that'll make you go oooh. (Link should work now as of 8/30)
HubbleSite - if you didn't get enough starpix from the APOD. Poke around enough and find the full-resolution press release images and you won't be disappointed.
More Pretty Pictures. If the last two sites didn't fill your need. This is the site that the Hubble's site points to for the press release images, so skip a step and look here, I guess.
National Optical Astronomy Observatory. Okay. I've been collecting starpix from APOD for a while now, and these guys make some of the best. Not only that, but their site has a number of their images in EIGHT THOUSAND BY EIGHT THOUSAND PIXEL RESOLUTION. Wow. Wow wow wow.
Galaxy Images by Steve Mandel. I really do like admire all these photographers, I'm just having trouble sounding excited about the eighth or ninth entry on this list.
Starryscapes. Loke Kun Tan's Astrophotography site. Great pics, gallery view.
