Studying primatology, reading, writing, listening to music.
Music
Genesis, Frank Zappa, Opeth, Iron Maiden, King Crimson, Yes, Death, Nightwish, Brand X, Black Sabbath, Devin Townsend, Megadeth, Soft Machine, Cynic, Porcupine Tree, ELP, Motörhead, Anathema, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Kate Bush, Paradise Lost, Dream Theater, Cathedral, Axel Rudi Pell, Amorphis, Metallica, Slayer, Alice in Chains, Primus, Gentle Giant, Sacred Reich, After Forever
Movies
King Kong, Son of Kong, Mighty Joe Young (every Harryhausen movie, too), Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula (Universal > Hammer), Evil Dead, Godzilla, Frankenstein (Hammer > Universal), Them, Hellraiser, American Psycho, Nightmare on Elm Street, This Is Spinal Tap, Back to the Future, A Clockwork Orange
Television
Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9), David Attenborough documentaries, Tales from the Crypt, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, The Outer Limits, Sliders, Sonic SaTAM, Seinfeld, The Twilight Zone, Futurama, Frasier.
Books
Gorillas in the Mist, The Langurs of Abu, Reflections from Eden, The Chimpanzees of Gombe, The Descent of Man, Faces in the Forest, The Metaphysics of Apes, The Bonobo and the Atheist, Bonobo Handshake, A Primate's Memoir, Notes from Underground, The Mysterious Stranger, The Hound of Bakersville, Galapagos, House of Leaves, Red Mars, Uplift Series, The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play.
Heroes
Dian Fossey, Charles Darwin, Frank Zappa, Peter Gabriel, Mark Twain, Ralph Nader
About me:
I'm so used to besieging myself in the countercultural minutia that defined the early aughts as a supreme paragon of pilgarlic that the fact that I don't even consider that my existence was nascent enough to be a controversial addition to a sitcom's penultimate season. I'm just so removed from any active plane of existence at this point with too many layers of ironic genuflection in my ethos for me to actually assume any authenticity in associative perspective, even if it was my own at one point.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker was tv series that ran in 74/75. The first episode was called "Ripper", yes about Jack the Ripper, then about other monsters like vampires, werewolf, mummies, etc. I love that show, truly , a show after my own heart. Have a nice weekend.