nattybumpo
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Medical Laboratory Technician |
| Location | Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States |
| Introduction | I am a Terran, a citizen of the world; Earth is my ashram and its people my brothers, sisters, and cousins. I am also a father of one, a son 16 yrs old of whom I am very proud. He's a bass player in a band at school, and he's also teaching himself blues guitar. My current occupation is broke college student; my main goal right now is to get through my associate's degree and take my boards for MLT. I am easy to talk to, and can walk up to perfect strangers and strike up a conversation, even about something as absurd as eating PBJ sandwiches dipped in Kraft House Italian dressing or Cream of Wheat with Louisiana hot sauce. I'm very open, frank, and candid; be careful when asking me a question, because I will answer it. As for religion, I'm an agnostic atheist and an uncompromising secularist. As Tom Paine once wrote, "My mind is my own church"; to which I add, "And stay the hell out of it". All religions are blasphemy anyway. |
| Interests | Sex, politics, art, religion, science, history, museums, movies, watching football (Vols, Titans, Colts), playing basketball and volleyball, chess, reading, cooking (esp. Cajun-Creole), hiking, walking, dancing, plays, concerts, symphonies, comedy shows, writing (mainly poetry, some prose), doing open mikes, republican socialism, anti-war activism, counterculture, Glenmorangie single malt, Murphy's Stout, San Miguel Pale Pilsen, merlot, whiskey sour made w/Tennessee whiskey, Cajun-Creole, Filipino, Vietnamese, Soul, Thai, and Indian food, Southern BBQ, Philippines, Scotland, Ireland, Northeast Ulster, Iran, England, France, Palestine, Lebanon, Viet Nam, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Japan, and Burma, as well as the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Six Nations Confederacy, the Euchee Natio |
| Favorite Movies | Last of the Mohicans, Before Sunrise, Farewell to the King, Legends of the Fall, Braveheart, Before Sunset, Silverado, Long Riders, M*A*S*H, The Big Chill, Notting Hill, About A Boy, Ferris Bueller, Star Wars I-VI, Star Trek II-IV, Billy Jack, Highlander (Director's Cut), Rob Roy, Evelyn, Michael Collins, Dead Poets Society, Magdalene Sisters, Some Mother's Son, Company Business, Hopscotch, Enemy of the State, Clerks, Mall Rats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II, Apocalypse Now Redux, A History of Violence, Longtime Companion, Mystic River, Unforgiven, Wind That Shakes the Barley, Lord of the Rings, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Matrix, The Alamo (2004), Walk The Line, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Gandhi, High Noon, Trainspotting, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Das Boot, Devil's Own, The Wall, Torch Song Trilogy, Shawshank Redemption, Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, History of the World Part 1, Meaning of Life, Platoon, When Harry Met Sally, Harlem Nights, The Crow, King Arthur, Closer, Sneakers, Lethal Weapons I-IV, Willow, Wizards, Tequila Sunrise, Point Break, Best Seller, Leaving Las Vegas, Blow, Up In Smoke, No Way Out, Enemy Within, Crying Game, 84 Charlie Mopic, Mad About Mambo, Diary of a Hitman, V for Vendetta, Easy Rider, Casualties of War, Independence Day, Born on the Fourth of July, Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, Heathers, Casablanca, Vietnam War Story, Fight Club, Butterfly Effect, Everlasting Piece, Eating Raoul, CHUD II, Maximum Overdrive, The Handmaid's Tale, The Three Musketeers (1993), Planes Trains and Automobiles, Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings, Black Snake Moan, Kingdom of Heaven, Cool Hand Luke, Chocolat, 48 Hours, Reds, Revenge of the Nerds, Running Scared (2006), Dark Brothers films, Opening Up of Misty Beethoven (and its outtakes), the work of Sasha Grey, Fast Food Nation, Deception, Basic, Hurricane, anything with Julie Delpy |
| Favorite Music | Genre: Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Dixieland, Bebop, Rhythm 'n' Blues, Southern Rock, Acid Rock, Classical, Outlaw Country, Soul, Rockabilly, Zydeco, Scottish and Irish traditional and modern, Folk, Bluegrass, Tex-Mex, some Gospel, Persian traditional, some Rap/Hip-Hop Artists: Grateful Dead, Nicole Hart, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Widespread Panic, Christina Aguilera, Bruce Springsteen, Black Keys, Jennifer Daniels, Tom Waits, Fats Domino, Tupac Shakur, Jethro Tull, Thelonius Monk, John P. Coltraine, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Mingus, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Procol Harum, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Johnny Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Leadbelly, Manic Street Preachers, Meatloaf, Dick Gaughan, Flogging Molly, Real Mckenzies, Dropkick Murphys, Tom Petty, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Sophie B. Hawkins, Sarah McLachlan, Solas, Ahmad Jamal, Jim Croce, Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Queen, Janis Joplin, Asia Night Beat Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Band, Joe Cocker, Bella Fleck and the Flecktones, Freddie Aguilar, Dead Kennedys, Khanh Ly, John Trudell, Black 47, Bob Marley, Deva Premal, Ry Cooder, Depeche Mode, Grand Master Flash, Niggers With Attitude, Public Enemy, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Iggy Pop, Nirvana, Kid Sheik, Chuck Berry, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Tina Turner, Rolling Stones, Paul Robeson, Ramones, Ray Charles, The Smiths, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The The, Santana, Pink Floyd, Thirteen Senses, Tricky, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Simon & Garfunkel, Immortal Technique |
| Favorite Books | Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kessler, Warped Passages, Last Days of Christ the Vampire, How I Paid For College: A Novel of Theft Friendship and Musical Theater, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?, Being and Nothingness, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Good Ol' Archibald, Age of Reason, Rights of Man, anything else by Thomas Paine, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Letters From The Earth, anything else by Mark Twain, 1916, Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Masters of Solitude, Tain Bo Cualigne, Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Noli Me Tangere, El Filibusterismo, Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Children of Hurin, Harry Potter series, Star Wars Expanded Universe, Star Trek relaunches, Stranger in a Strange Land, Grapes of Wrath, Das Kapital, The Other America, Job: A Comedy of Justice, Parthian Shot, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road Kill Him!, Illusions, Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare, Anarchist's Cookbook, Spy Who Came In From the Cold, Children of the Arbat, Crime and Punishment, Lord of Light, The Jungle, The Iron Heel, People of the Abyss, Trinity, The Prophet, Looking Backward, Dispatches, Less Than Zero, Ten Days That Shook The World, The Ugly American, Satanic Verses, Persian Letters, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, The Razor's Edge, 13th Valley, The Hajj, Vietnam Spook Show, Gardens of Stone, Charlie Mike, Mekong, Ho Chi Minh on Revolution, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Handmaid's Tale, W. B. Yeats, Rabbie Burns, Edgar Allen Poe, Ulysses, Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle, Her Darkest Materials, Brigada .45, Robin Cook novels, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Cherokee Tragedy, Attack of the Theater People, Hard Candy, writings of the Iranian poet Sa'adi |