Wayfarer
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I love horror -- Romero's zombie films like Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead are among my favorites. Lately, I watched all of Supernatural up to season 6 in reruns and can't wait to get that -- I'm hooked. It's well-written, well-acted, and the themes are deep while, at the same time, it's hilarious.
Book-wise, I read constantly, usually non-fiction. The last really good book I read was an essay on Thomas Paine called Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens -- for me, that was fun. :closedeyes: I'm working on Ernst Cassirer's The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Bayle's Dictionary, and Jurgen Habermas' The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (I'm on a kick studying Enlightenment thought).
But I also love humor -- at a used bookstore I just found the collected reprints of HUMBUG by Harvey Kutzman, Will Elder, Arnold Roth, Al Jaffee, and Jack Davis (most of the same gang that created the original MAD Magazine back in the 1950s). It was a humor/satire book in the '60s aimed at an older audience. I also located a few issues of HELP! by the same guys (plus John Cleese and Terry Gilliam who went on to form Monty Python), and they are wonderful. :laugh:
One book I re-read every year or two is Kipling's Stalky & Co. -- it's about a group of three boys growing up in an English boarding school, getting in adventures, constant trouble, and how their experiences caused each of them to grow into the adults they were: good, responsible men of the Empire. It's very funny and poignant. I'd recommend it to anyone.
Music-wise, I listen to various things, but I always come back to Neil Young. I just got the old re*ac*tor album and Decade, which are in my CD player all the time.
Well, that's enough. How about you?
Book-wise, I read constantly, usually non-fiction. The last really good book I read was an essay on Thomas Paine called Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens -- for me, that was fun. :closedeyes: I'm working on Ernst Cassirer's The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Bayle's Dictionary, and Jurgen Habermas' The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (I'm on a kick studying Enlightenment thought).
But I also love humor -- at a used bookstore I just found the collected reprints of HUMBUG by Harvey Kutzman, Will Elder, Arnold Roth, Al Jaffee, and Jack Davis (most of the same gang that created the original MAD Magazine back in the 1950s). It was a humor/satire book in the '60s aimed at an older audience. I also located a few issues of HELP! by the same guys (plus John Cleese and Terry Gilliam who went on to form Monty Python), and they are wonderful. :laugh:
One book I re-read every year or two is Kipling's Stalky & Co. -- it's about a group of three boys growing up in an English boarding school, getting in adventures, constant trouble, and how their experiences caused each of them to grow into the adults they were: good, responsible men of the Empire. It's very funny and poignant. I'd recommend it to anyone.
Music-wise, I listen to various things, but I always come back to Neil Young. I just got the old re*ac*tor album and Decade, which are in my CD player all the time.
Well, that's enough. How about you?
