I am owned by a shiba inu pup named Nori, a mostly Abyssinian cat and a mostly Maine Coon cat.

I would like to learn Abkhazan or Faroese (I know, completely different right, why would I even bother??)  But I will happily learn to babble in just about any language.

Would like to learn Abkhazan and/or Faroese,  But, just about every language has its appeal. And if you speak Karelian then you just might become my best friend for life.  I was a writing tutor for three years in college, mostly helping students from Sweden, Russia, Bulgaria, Korea and Japan.  But, just about every language has its appeal.

Languages (obvious), I also knit...alot (I know...gosh,​ a guy who knits, what is this world coming to?) and spin (gasp once again), I am a caver (since I was 11), backpacking,​ snowshoeing,​ hiking, I make pysanky (those Ukrainian eggs); being outside as much as possible.

Ummm, hard to pick just one: Tom Waits, Lhasa de Sela, The Bird and the Bee, Inara George, Portishead, Tricky, Goldfrapp, 5nica, Enekk, John Lee Hooker, Kosheen, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Anya Gabarek, Magnetic Fields, Elysian Fields, The Smiths, Mazzy Star, old The Cure, Erik Satie, Vladimir Vysotsky, Echo and the Bunny Men just to name a very small part of my collection (I used to do radio)

El Laberinto del Fauno, Mirrormask, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Fountain, Pi, Night of the Living Dead

House, Bones, Fringe, National Geographic Channel, Science Channel especially Mythbusters,​ History Channel, Family Guy, Destination Truth, Ghost Hunters

T.S. Eliot "The Wasteland"​, "Flower​s for Algernon"​, LotR, most things written by H.P Lovecraft (gothic horror, mystery/susp​ense).  My copy of Master and Margarita in Russian, Rilke, and getting into Neil Gaiman's novels

"Jeder Engel ist schrecklich.​ Und dennoch, weh mir,
ansing ich euch, fast tödliche Vögel der Seele,
wissend um euch.";​ "I am with you in Rockland";​ "Кто женщину эту оплакивать будет?/Не меньшей ли мнится она из утрат?/Лишь сердце мое никогда не забудет/Отда​вшую жизнь за единственный​ взгляд"​, "Вы любите это, которое Вы можете потерять, непосредстве​нно, женщину, страну."​ - Крис Келвин "Солярис"​