About Me
- About Me: Joiwind and I, a nation of two
Video Games
- Games I Play: Risk
- Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Qix, Pinball
- Proudest Achievements: Not being addicted to video games, to the point of not even knowning what half these questions mean.
Books
- Favorite Books: Cat's Cradle, Stranger in a Strange Land; The Red, White, and Blue; Lonesome Dove
- Favorite Authors: Carl Hiassen, Barbara Kingsolver, Kurt Vonnegut, John Gregory Dunne, Martin Cruz Smith, Thomas Paine
- Favorite Genres: Florida Crime Fiction, Historical fiction
- Favorite Characters: Gus McCrae, Skink, Serge, Arkady Renko, Jubal Harshaw
- Favorite Quotes: "We don't need anger management, we need greed management!", Skink, in Sick Puppy, by Carl Hiassen
- Recent Reads: Lincoln, by Carl Sandberg ; Age of Reason, Thomas Paine-- I haven't read a book in ages, to be honest. Blogging and Web-surfing have supplanted books.
Television
- Favorite Shows: The Riches, Boston Legal, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, My Name Is Earl , The Wire, Brotherhood
- Favorite Channels: HBO, F/X, MSNBC, Comedy Central
- Favorite Reruns: NYPD Blue, Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke
- Most Addictive Show: My Name Is Earl, the ensemble is the best on TV
- Favorite Late Night Talk Show: the Daily Show, Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel
- Favorite Episode: Deadwood, Jack McCall's Trial
- Characters you relate to: Monk, Vic Mackey, Seth Bullock
- Favorite Theme Song: Down In The Hole--The Wire
- Show I Secretly Watch: Then it wouldn't be a secret, es verdad?
- Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Deadwood, Rome, Sonny Spoon
More About Me
- Nationality: mutt
- Religion: devout agnostic/unconfirmed atheist
- Heroes: Augustus McRae, Mahatma Gandhi, Mitch Snyder, Richard Branson
- Interests: mycology, ecology, stock-picking, myth-busting, Poetry, photography, humor
- Expertise: tow-building, navigating, 2nd-guessing, Coffee brewing,
- Occupation: towboat pilot
- Industry: intracoastal marine transportation
Style
- Where I shop: FleaMart
- I like to wear: Hawaiian shirts
- Can't live without: suspenders
- Prized Possessions: t-shirt from "The Last Waltz" concert
- Guilty Pleasure: argyle socks, guayaberas, silk boxers
Movies
- Favorite Movies: Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Crash, Casablanca, The Hustler, Goodfellas
- Favorite Actors: Bogart, Paul Newman, Charlie Chaplin, Sissy Spacek, Frances McDormand, Sean Penn
- Favorite Directors: Clint Eastwood, Scorcese, Hitchcock
- Favorite Genre: If it is written well, acted well, genre is unimportant
- Favorite Soundtracks: Shaft(but the movie is dumb); Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels; West Side Story
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: Barges? We don' got no stinkin' barges!
- Movies I can watch over and over: Casablanca, Any Marx Brothers movie
- Actor that would play me in a movie: Living? John Cusack. Ideally? Gary Cooper
Music
- Favorite Artists: Springsteen, Louis Prima, Benny Goodman, The Who, Keith Richard, Marvin Gaye, Shakira, Santana
- Favorite Albums: Exile On Main Street, Born To Run, Tommy, James Gang Live at Carnegie Hall, Aqualung
- Favorite Genre: tough one but african music is never off my player for long...give Baaba Maal a listen, or Angelique Kidjoe
- Favorite Songs: I Can See for Miles, Tumblin' Dice, Son of a Preacher Man, Sing,Sing, Sing; In The Mood
- Favorite Lyrics: "The future's uncertain, and the end is always near" --The Doors We're not gonna take it, never did and never will" --The Who
- Songs for Roadtrips: Out On The Street-Bruce Springsteen Shattered- The Rolling Stones I'll Take you There-The Staples Singers
- Songs I hate: You Light Up my Life, Free Bird, Stairway to Heaven--- the last 2 I have just heard way too many times
- Guilty Pleasure: Sexy Back--Justin Timberlake
- Songs I repeat the most: Smooth- Santana, Out on the Street-Bruce Springsteen, Silencio-Ibrahim Ferrer
- Band I wish I was in: I would not wish that on any group
Travel
- Places I love: New York City, Toreya State Park, Alaska, Panama(the country), Dali Museum, in St. Petersburg--an acid trip w/o the paranoia
- Places I've been: see above, plus Las Vegas, Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, Key West, Boston
- Places to see before I die: Italy, Spain, Iceland, Brazil
- Dream Vacation: 2-week hike to Angel Falls, Venezuela
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Italian
- Favorite Dishes: Spaghetti and meatballs, Lamb Saag, Grilled Rib-eye steak, boudin
- Favorite Desserts: cheesecake, dark chocolate truffles
- Favorite Drinks: single-malt scotch(glen morangie), pinot noir blanc, sumatran coffee
- Favorite Junk Foods: dill potato chips, DOUGHNUTS!
- Best meal ever: Commander's Palace, New Orleans--deboned duck grilled in a reduced wine sauce. The service was impeccable, the food to die for!
- My Original Recipes: omelette with butterkase cheese, and fresh-picked mushrooms
- Favorite Restaurants: Commander's Palace(see above), Los Rancheros, Uncle Ernie's
- Foods I hate: Beef liver, canned tuna, hogshead cheese
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