bands:

1. Glenn Gould playing JSBach.
2. Murray Perahia playing Mozart piano concerti (especially #14, 21, 22, + 27).
3. Any GOOD a capella group (Rockapella, The Nylons, a few '50s groups, ...).
4. Pretty much anything written by Andrew Lloyd Weber.
5. Paul Simon.
6. John Bayless's CDs
7. Guns & Roses.
8. E Power Biggs playing the organ and ol' Virgil Fox playing the Gigue Fugue.
9. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
10. Charlie Daniels Band.

films:

1. Amelie.
2. 007 movies (all of them).
3. Most comedies, especially A Fish Called Wanda, Animal House, Austin Powers 1-3, Better Off Dead, Caveman, tCompetition, Coneheads, Dr. Strangelove, Ferris Buellor's Day Off, Galaxy Quest, Get Smart, Ghostbusters, tGoodbye Girl, Groundhog Day, Kill Bill 1f, Meatballs, My Blue Heaven, My Cousin Vinny, Natcho Libre, tReplacements, Ruthless People, Scrooged, Tommy Boy, Tremors, Uncle Buck, Wagons East, Wayne's World 1-2, What About Bob?, Wild Hogs, Wild Wild West, Young Frankenstein, Zoolander, Zorro tGay Blade.
4. Natural history DVDs: Life On Earth + tLife of Birds (both narrated by David Attenborough), Insectia.
5. Ben Hur. Little Big Man.
6. Mystery Science Theater 3000.
7. Pirates otCaribbean 1-4.
8. tPoseidon Adventure.
9. Most decent SF movies.
10. Most romantic comedies, especially Groundhog Day, Roxanne, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Stardust.

books:

1. I own 4397 unique textbooks + 5148 different SF books. It's difficult to pare them down to a mere top 10!
2. All-time greatest book ever: Dune.
3. Comedy: Cheaper By tDozen, Dark Star, Ecotopia (for laughs), Hitchhiker's Gd To tGalaxy, House of God, Little Big Man, That Darn Squid God.
4. Comics: Far Side rules!!
5. Fiction: tAnnotated Alice, tAnnotated Gulliver's Travels, Flowers For Algernon, tPoseidon Adventure.
6. History: A History otDecline+Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon, get 1 with all the footnotes--they're a scream), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Auschwitz--A Dr's Eyewitness Account, tCivil War--A Narrative (Shelby Foote), Communism--A History, History of America (Page Smith series), Names On tLand, tRise+Fall ot3rd Reich (Shirer), Seeds of Change, Total War, tYear 1000.
7. Political/Current: A Clockwork Orange, tBell Curve, tDemon-Haunted World, Liberal Fascism, See I Told You So, Uncle Eric series.
8. SF: Agent Pendergast series, Amber series, American Gods, Anansi Boys, anything by Neal Asher / Michael Crichton / James Gardner / Simon Green / Peter Hamilton / Kim Harrison / Frank Herbert / David Palmer / Nick Pollotta, Assemblers of Infinity, Conrad Stargard series, Deathworld 1-3, Directive 51 + Daybreak, Dorsai, Dream Park series, tDresden Files series, Elric of Melnibone series, Eon series, Fafhrd + Grey Mouser series, Flood, Forge of God series, Garrett PI series, God's Demon, Greener Than You Think, Ill Wind, Inferno, Iron Druid series, Jack of Shadows, Lensman series, Lord otRings + tSilmarillion, Lucifer's Hammer, Manifold Origin/Space/Time, Monster Hunter International series, tMoon Is A Harsh Mistress, Moon of 3 Rings, tMote In God's Eye, Operation Chaos, Sandman Slim, Starship Troopers, Way Station, Wheel of Time series, Wild Card series, tWitches of Karres.
9. Texts: t9 Nations of North America, t10000y Explosion, Biochemistry (Lehninger), tColor of Nature, tCulture Code, Ethics In Medicine, tLucifer Principle, Musical Musings, Nature's Building Blocks, Oxford Dictionary Bk of Quotations, tRoutledge Handbk of Greek Myths, tScience of Measurement, Sunset Western Garden Book, Why Things Bite Back.
10. Unusual Writing Style: 500y After (like Dumas' writing), tFallible Fiend, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, True Grit, Watership Down.

tv shows:

1. I don't watch regular TV--it's a waste of time + mostly crap. Here's DVDs we watch instead:
2. Buffy (damn she's hot).
3. Futurama.
4. House, before it got all soapie and stuff -- oh, who am I kidding I still watch it.
5. Malcolm In tMiddle.
6. Monk.
7. Mork & Mindy.
8. tOffice.
9. Scrubs.
10. Seinfeld, Star Trek (Voyager is best), Stargate SG-1 + Atlantis.

Artists:

1. Authors: Neal Asher, Edward Gibbons, JRR Tolkien, Roger Zelazny.
2. Composers: The Great JS Bach, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone, Wolfie Mozart, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Weird Al.
3. Chef/Educator/Foodie: Julia Childs.
4. Landscape Architects: Frederick Law Olmsted.
5. Master-of-Everything: Leonardo da Vinci, against whom all the rest of us are as children.
6. Musical Performers: John Bayless, tBeatles, E Power Biggs, Virgil Fox, Benny Goodman, Glenn Gould, Israel Kamakawiwa'ole, Franz Liszt, Artie Shaw.
7. Sculptors: Innumerable Greek dudes+dudettes, spanning several centuries.
8. Vocalists: Julie Andrews, Cher, John Denver, Elvis, Klaus Nomi.

into: Organizing stuff. Anything that makes me laugh (most of life is funny and I have a "Far Side" sense of humor...). Experiencing in real life some funny event from a movie, especially Monty Python ("Help, help, I'm being repressed!"). In music, unexpected key changes or single notes. Eating good food. Great sex with my wife. Experiencing BEAUTY, which to me is patterns (simplicity) in complex systems, and at the same time variations/complexity in apparently "simple" systems. Evolution. Etymology + entomology. Cool physiological mechanisms. Unusual life-forms. Medical technology. Anything to do with science. Advances in technology. Feats of engineering. Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine. Star Trek. Views from the Hubble telescope. Strange fungi. Bacteria. Kittens (+ small furry creatures in general). Rainbows of all kinds. Doing a great job on something. Unusual questions that little kids ask in all seriousness. Ah, I love being alive!!

not into: People who hate, + Hate memes. Lies of any kind. Stupid people who can't/won't think logically. Too-hot beaches. Ground squirrels. Flesh-eating bacteria. 98% of rap music. Oppressive governments + bureacrats of all stripes telling me what to do. Disorganization. Disgustingly fat people with weak wills. Relying on a tiny yippy dog instead of a wolf-like hound as companion when you face down a 8' long cougar. Spam.

makes me happy: Far Side cartoons. Pizza. Holding my tiny newborn babies for the very first time + looking into their eyes while they stare intently back at me. ("What ARE you, Big Thing??") Doing a kindness for someone else. Helping some small creature that's in trouble. Nice warm fireplace on a cold rainy day. BBQs. Fat happy watermelons. The annual salamander migration on our road. Reading a new book ranked "10" knowing it's jjust the 1st of a huge series! Hot cocoa when it's snowing outside. Finding something truly beautiful. Showing that beautiful thing to someone else + watching their expression. Smiles from the heart, because I made someone else happy. The sounds chickens make. Pockets + cuttlefish (thanks AL). Hot showers.

makes me sad: Regression to the mean. Clueless people wasting their lives (you only get 1). Being an atheist (yes, it really sucks). Saying good-bye to my middle son, who died before he was born. Mozart dying at only 33 ("decomposing composers -- there's less of them every year"). Pets who don't live as long as we do. Hmm, I sense a theme here: death death ignorance death + death. (Mostly death.) Yep, death sucks big time. What a waste. I want the computer-downloaded immortality in my SF books! Knowing that World War 3, islamic jihad, hyperinflation, riots + loss of democracy world-wide are all coming and our "leaders" are power-mad idiots with no clue.

hobbies: Reading. Organizing things to increase efficiency. Playing classical piano. Martial arts. Working on my Greek mythological genealogy chart. Motorcycles. Anything biology, science, or medicine. Discovering new things. Planting tree seedlings.

5 things i can't live without: Caffeine, computers, my family, SF books, music. #6 = exceptions to the rules. Highlighters. My pancreas. Cats. Cool bacteria. The Krebs cycle. Art. Beauty. Love.

vices: I find it very difficult to eat just 1 of anything chocolate. I talk way too much.

thoughts on sg: I love it

i spend most of my free time: Organizing stuff, reading, designing a new house, road trips w/ my family, working in my forest. --WHAT FREE TIME??--

occupation: Dentist + boy genius (both retired). I now work ~75hr /wk as a stock investor, owner/operator of a small specialist insurance company in London, plus do maintenance in my forest. I am my kids' hero.

current crush: My beautiful wife.

stats: 5'11½" 160lb. Bald on top, short face beard below. Green eyes. Devilishly handsome.

body mods: Zero -- I'm a tabula rasa. And no, I don't have 3 testicles or anything similarly interesting.

heroes: Leonardo da Vinci, Frederick Law Olmsted, Glenn Gould, Thomas Jefferson, Ronald Reagan.

gets me hot: Beautiful eyes, hands + butt on the ladies. Small breasts. Sexy ears. Vulcan women + elves. Hot brainy chicks--if you've got a PhD, own >1000 books, are into SF, and play in your own band, you're my dream girl (kind of a cross between Cassandra from Wayne's World and Dr. Samantha Carter from Stargate Atlantis). Form-fitting lingerie. Women being honest + direct.

favorite position: Ah, variety is the spice...

fantasy: To live forever.

sign: Shaolin Ch'uan Fa dragon style.

most humbling moment: I'm shy -- I have LOTS of humbling moments! Arg.

i lost my virginity: But I found the clitoris. Yep, it was worth it.

CIGARETTES: Nope

MY DIET: Omnivore

ALCOHOL: Occasionally

MY DRUG USE: Drug Free

MY KINK FACTOR: I'll try anything once, especially if you beg for it.

POT: Nope

MY STATUS: exclusive relationship

MY IDEA OF A GOOD TIME: A long, slow, late dinner with friends.

I WANT: Friendship

MY PIGEONHOLES: Bookworm