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I just love to read! I mostly do good sci-fi, but will read anything that will catch my attention.
Books I've read that I consider worthy of mentioning here:

• By Arthur C. Clarke:
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 2010: Odyssey Two
• 2061: Odyssey Three
• 3001: The Final Odyssey
• The Hammer of God
• Childhood's End
• (With Michael P. Kube-McDowell) The Trigger
• (With Stephen Baxter) The Light of Other Days
• (With Gentry Lee) Cradle

• By Neal Stephenson:
• Cryptonomicon

• By William Gibson:
• Neuromancer
• Count Zero
• Mona Lisa Overdrive
• Virtual Light
• Idoru
• All Tomorrow's Parties

• By Philip K. Dick:
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

• By Bruce Sterling:
• Distraction

• By Chuck Palahniuk:
• Choke

• By John Steinbeck:
• The Pearl
• The Grapes of Wrath

• By Arthur Miller:
• "Death of a Salesman"

• By August Wilson:
• "Fences"

I also enjoy music. Since my tastes are always changing, and have no concrete description, here is a list of artists I enjoy, in no particular order. Make of it what you will:

• LTJ Bukem - He takes Drum and Bass to a new level. I enjoy 99% of his material, which takes him to the top of this list.
• The Future Sound Of London - They have some decent ambient material, and I love the fact that they sample so much. I have a fetish for samples from obscure movies sampled in with good ambient soundscapes :).
• BT (a.k.a. Brian Transeau - Note that I mostly only really enjoy his older dream-house material-- IMA, ESCM, etc. Some of the newer stuff is too poppish for my tastes.
• Paul Oakenfold - Only his live mixes, I do not really enjoy most of his produced material.
• Bassic (a.k.a. Martin Lindhe)
• KANNO Yoko (some favorites are the Wolf's Rain and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OSTs)
• Cliff Martinez (The Solaris soundtrack is beyond words when played on a good sound system)
• Aphex Twin - Haven't heard a lot of his stuff, but I like what I hear so far, and plan to get more.
• DJ Krush - Thick, phat downtempo. Thick like chocolate cake. And I love chocolate cake.
• Vangelis - I am a bit selective on this artist's work-- only a few tracks really are to my taste. Rachel's Song has been one of my favorites for a while.
• Rahzel - Simply amazing
• DJ Sasha - His breakbeat and ambient work really works for me. See: Airdrawndagger. Favorite song: Bloodlock
• DJ Tiësto - Quite possible one of the top faces in the Trance genre.
• Armin van Buuren - See above.
• Hooverphonic
• Massive Attack - Pioneers of downtempo, in my opinion.
• The Smashing Pumpkins - They are one of my favorites, and are one of a handful of groups who create rock music I will actually listen to.
• Rammstein - A bit repetetive, but they have energetic songs, and are great when you want to amplify your anger. A favorite song is Engel.
• Junkie XL - A very talented producer.
• All of the unnamed faces that reside in my mind as sounds only, without names.
• More will be added as it comes to mind.

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E2 Milestones:

First C!: Civil Air Patrol by RimRod. w00t
First multiple C! w/u: Paul Oakenfold
Level 2: with Raimi Matthews, server time Monday, December 16, 2002 at 4:56:54, exactly midnight in my timezone
100th XP: server time Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at 3:13:37 via voting