zoecarnate

I enjoy camping, white water rafting, reading (history, comics, spirituality), writing, contemplative prayer, dreaming and nonviolent creative action.

Everything from American History X to The Chronicles of Narnia to the entire (yes, all of them) Matrix trilogy. And lessee...Waking Life, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Being John Malkovitch...

I enjoy a variety of music (well, as much as a Western, 21st-century white guy can make great claims to transcendence of taste), much of which can be seen in the "artists and bands" section of my site.

Reading is one of the great passions of my life, and its one of the things that keeps me grounded from a shallow extroversion. First off, I read a ton of comic books. Some of my all-time favorites are Jack Kirby's 1970s Machine Man series, my buddy Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot Comics, and Peter David's ground-breaking run on the Incredible Hulk. I also read fiction--I love sci-fi like Asimov and Philip K. Dick, and "magic realism" like Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. I am presently enjoying "Immortality" by Fracno-Czech novelist Milan Kundera. Oh yes, and I read "Christian" books. The mystics, and church history mostly. And anything written by my friends.

I haven't really watched TV in six years or so...I mean real, network (or cable for that matter) television. I sort've quit once I got to college--no time--and I haven't looked back. TV on DVD, now that's another matter entirely! There's Alias and Family Guy for starters... But that doesn't mean I'm not a sucker for all those DVD season packages--Alias, The Office, Smallville, Ren & Stimpy...you name it.