About me

My personality is hard to categorize, and might best be described as "Crazy-Hippy-Newage-Rennie-Goth." I am a dreamer, a poet, a philosopher of sorts, and, admittedly, a bit of a prankster. I am as whimsical as a butterfly, never quite moving in a single direction. My being is constantly fluctuating between spells of deep thought, moments of fanciful light-heartedness and periods of mischievous vivacity. One moment introverted, the next lively. One moment spilling philosophical ideas and useless facts, the next replacing every number on your speed dial with the Psychiatric Hotline. Intellectual yet scatter-brained, I am capable of teaching myself Latin grammar, but incapable of remembering where in the name of everything sacred I left my coffee cup. More concerned with style than fashion, more concerned with heart than appearance, I can hardly be described as mainstream. Unusual in the extreme and much like a walking paradox, I drive most people crazy sometimes, but, thankfully, some of them love me anyway.

To quote an old Gaelic saying-

"May those who love us, love us
And those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts;
and if He doesn't turn their hearts
May He turn their ankles
So we'll know them by their limping."

About my collections

BOOKS: [Link removed - login to see] Generic Fantasy-- JRR Tolkien and R.A. Salvatore--Urban Fantasy-- Charles de Lint, C. E. Murphy and Ly de Angeles-- Magical Realism-- "the Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova, "the Stolen Child" by Keith Donohue, and "the Wild Wood" by Charles de Lint-- and Mythic Fiction-- Stephan R. Lawhead and Neal Gaiman. Mystery-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series and Dashiell Hammett's "the Maltese Falcon." Mythology Michael Dames, Peter Berresford Ellis, Miranda Green and, of course, Joseph Campbell. Classic Literature-- "Little Women" by Louise May Alcott, "Kidnapped" by Robert Lewis Stevenson, "Pride ans Prejudiced" by Jane Austen and "the Call of the Wild" by Jack London-- and Contemporary Literature-- "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden, "the Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton, and the works of Sue Monk Kidd and Isabel Allende. Creative Non-Fiction "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt, John McPhee's "Encounters with the Archdruid" and Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods."

MOVIES:I enjoy Natural Science and Ancient History Documentaries, Irish Dance Shows-- Riverdance, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, Feet of Flames, Gaelforce Dance-- and a small selection Anime like those by Studio Ghibli as well as Inu-Yasha and Naruto. I also enjoy Montey Python and the Holy Grail, Lord of the Rings, Waking Ned Devine, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999 version), Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare adaptions, Nero Wolfe (A&E), Red vs. Blue, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pride and Prejudice (A&E), My Little Pony (original), V for Vendetta, Big Fish, the Secret of Roan Inish, Boondock Saints, Foamy the Squirrel, Interview With the Vampire, Dear Frankie, Gladiator, Almost Famous, Rat Race, Firefly, and Pan's Labyrinth.

MUSIC: Music is my emotional panacea, and therefore I have somewhat varied and eclectic musical tastes. Celtic Rock Wolfstone, Off Kilter, Enter the Haggis, Seven Nations, Great Big Sea, MacKeel and some songs by Eluveitie and Suidakra. Traditional Celtic Silly Wizard, Skydance, Eileen Ivers, Gaelic Storm, Altan, Danú and The Cheiftains. Symphonic/Epic Metal Nightwish, Leaves Eyes and New Age Gary Stadler, Kelvin Mockingbird, Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Secret Garden, and Mediaeval Baebes. Classical the old masters and Ludovico Einaudi. Other Genres rock, folk, jazz, hippy, swing, blues.

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