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HOBBIES AND INTERESTS:
* Meditation and contemplation, self-improvement, family activities, nature appreciation and hiking, Aikido, academic study, political activism, playing Violin, painting and sculpture, dance, computers & AOL, sailing, tennis, and collecting books on Spirituality, Fantasy, and Surreal Art

* Contemplation - See my Blog on Spirituality, Psychology, Existentialism, Complex Systems Theory, Science & Politics - Integration Theory & Practice;

... and my Matrix of Websites:



FAVORITES:
* Authors - Swami Muktananda Paramahansa, Jai Deva Singh, Carlos Castaneda, Neil Gaiman, Tom Clancy, Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin Kiernan, and Stephen King.

* Musicians - My favorite genre of music is Ethereal Gothic Music.  This form of music is so powerful for me, it actually has a drug-like affect on me.  My favorite musicians in this genre are:  QNTAL, Delirium, Aphelion, and Dead Can Dance, and I find Ad Mortem, Gothic dj specializing in Ethereal Gothic Music, to be extremely inspiring.  Loreena McKennitt, Inya, Simon and Garfunkel, America, VNV Nation, Die Form, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Ludwig Von Beethoven are also favorites.

* Painters - VINCENT VAN GOGH, Michaelangelo, H.R. Giger, Daniel Ouellette, M.C. Escher, Barry Gross, Charles White, Hajime Sorayama, and David Fraley.  (Also, please see my Dark Disturbing Art Website).

* Cinema - JODIE FOSTER, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Connelly, Robert DeNiro, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Fairuza Balk, and John Hughes.
Angelina Jolie at Academy Awards in Gothic Style dress and hair extensions.
Jodie Foster
Angelina Jolie
Jennifer Connelly


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* Chatrooms -

 

* Favorite Movies -
SPIRITUALLY AND/OR EMOTIONALLY INSPIRING:

  • Lord of the Rings (directed by Peter Jackson)
  • Empire of the Sun (directed by Steven Spielberg)
  • Contact (directed by, and starring Jodie Foster)
  • The Color Purple (directed by Steven Spielberg)
  • Field of Dreams (starring Kevin Costner)
  • What Dreams May Come (starring Robin Williams)
  • The Postman (starring Kevin Costner)
  • Places of the Heart
  • Out of Africa
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (directed by Steven Spielberg)
  • The Emerald Forest (directed by John Boorman)
  • Starman
  • Brother Sun, Sister Moon
  • Brainstorm
  • Nell (directed by, and starring Jodie Foster)
  • Little Man Tate (directed by, and starring Jodie Foster)
  • 2001
  • 2010 (starring Roy Scheider)
  • Enemy Mine
  • Searching for Bobbie Fisher
  • Legend (starring Tom Cruise)
  • Ben-Hur



INSPIRING CHILDREN'S MOVIES:

  • Fly Away Home
  • The Snowman
  • James and the Giant Peach
  • The Little Princess
  • The Secret Garden
  • Indian in the Cupboard
  • Black Beauty
  • The Black Stallion (produced by Francis Ford Coppola)
  • Pocahantas



DARK-SIDE AND/OR THE MILITARY ANALOGY FOR LIFE STRUGGLE:

  • Lord of the Rings (directed by Peter Jackson)
  • Glory (starring Denzel Washington)
  • Excalibur (directed by John Boorman)
  • The Matrix (EXCEPT the glorification of gun violence)
  • Gladiator (directed by Ridley Scott)
  • Thunderheart
  • The Addiction (Vampires)
  • Blade (Vampires)
  • Hamburger Hill
  • The Good Fellas (directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert DeNiro)
  • Casino (directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert DeNiro)
  • The Cell (starring Jennifer Lopez)
  • Blade Runner (directed by Ridley Scott)
  • The Crow II: City of Angels
  • Dune (directed by Francis Ford Coppola)
  • Courage under Fire (starring Denzel Washington)
  • Se7en (starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt & Gwyneth Paltrow)
  • The Last Castle
  • Apocalypse Now (directed by Francis Ford Coppola)
  • All That Jazz (starring Roy Scheider)
  • The Killing Fields
  • Heat (starring Robert DeNiro)
  • The Road Warrior
  • Once Were Warriors
  • Lost Boys (EXCEPT the commercialized ending)
  • Poltergeist (directed by Steven Spielberg)
  • Donny Brasco (starring Johnny Depp)
  • Moulin Rouge
  • Final Countdown
  • Alien (directed by Ridley Scott)
  • Being There
  • Amadeus
  • The Professional
  • Twister (starring nature - tornadoes)
  • 48 Hours



TEEEEEENage ANGST:



Favorite TV Shows:

  • MilleniuM
  • X-Files
  • The Sopranos
  • NYPD Blue
  • ER
  • CNN News
  • International News Station on Cable
  • NASA Station on Cable
  • Independent Film Channel & Sundance Channel on Cable



JuSt  4  FuUnN:

  • The Blues Brothers
  • The Blues Brothers 2000
  • Jurassic Park (directed by Steven Spielberg)
  • Top Gun (starring Tom Cruise)
  • An Officer and a Gentleman
  • She's Having a Baby (directed by John Hughes)
* Some of My Art (more art can be found on the Disturbing Totems Website for Dark Art):

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