Various & Sundry

1. Each blogger must post these rules.
2. Each blogger start with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
3. Blogger that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post this rules . at the end of your blog, you need to choose 8 peoples to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don't forget to live them a comment telling them they've been tagged to read your blog.

So factoids about myself...uhhhhh.....mmmmmm...

1. I'm not into writing blogs..heh heh...they're virtual so can be deleted & the discrimination of the hosting provider....the internet is a virtual reality & hence at some level doesn't exist so blogs seems very ephemeral...whatever.
2. I like beer.  I like wine too but frankly prefer beer.  I didn't realize how much I knew about it until I was in the local liquor store & was able to name beers that the local expert hadn't heard of....the beer he recommended kinda sucked...haha...
3. I love puzzles.  I used to more aggressively collect them but every once-in-a-while still buy one or two.  I particularly like wooden ones...I just got these two recently (the left one from Jakarta):
4. I have a love/antipathy relationship  w/ technology....I love new technology but hate the the newest is often the worst....witness the new iPhones....lots of problems reported & bad support....looks cool but better to wait...oh well....plus some technological advances seem worthless...there are books on computer but I'd much rather just read a good ole paper-made-from-wood book.
5. I love bizarre/unusual movies...I've seen movies that almost no one else has seen & they are some of my favorites:  The Last Wave, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Shout, The Passenger, The Parallax View, Marathon Man, Dark Star, What's Up Doc?, Bedazzled (the original), After Hours, to name a few....of course I love a few standards, 2001, Groundhog Day, Once Upon a Time in the West, Clockwork Orange, Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Taxi Driver, etc...
6. I'm a Democrat.  I think people think I'm really conservative because I look it but I register as a Democrat....there are a bunch of Libertarians in my family....heh heh...maybe I should have started it that way.
7. My acting has helped my musicianship.  I've been taking acting classes for the past 6 years & it's dramatically improved my keyboard playing.  I still want to work on improvisation but I'm improving by the week.
8. I eat beef.  I'll probably never be a vegetarian.  I love meat too much...who knows?  Maybe in the future, there will be some common meat substitutes & I can't tell the difference but for now, I love a big steak or chicken or pork....I guess I won't be converting to Judaism anytime soon either....

There, duty fulfilled.... :-P