Favorite visual artist Don't know. Don't care. Favorite movies No Country For Old Men, Dr. Strangelove, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Patton, The Last Detail, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Children of Men, There Will Be Blood, Ben Hur, and many more... Favorite TV shows Star Trek: TNG, TOS, DS9, Generation Kill, Arrested Development, Louie, Terriers, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Rescue Me, The Shield, Seinfeld, Bizarre Foods, No Reservations, AOTS, Iron Chef, South Park, Around the Horn, PTI, and many more... Favorite bands / musical artists Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush, Foo Fighters, QoTSA, Fleet Foxes, Fleetwood Mac, Philip Glass, Dmitri Shostakovich, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, The Flaming Lips, Elliot Goldenthal, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, Steely Dan, The Beatles, Radiohead, and many more... Favorite books Anything Cormac McCarthy, anything ancient history, anything military history, LoTR, anything philosophical Favorite writers Cormac McCarthy, JRR Tolkein, ermm... ? Favorite games Too many to count. Shogun: Total War, MTW, RTW, M2TW, Star Trek: Klingon Academy, RDR, Batman: Arkham Aylum, Mass Effect (2), Bioshock, C&C: Red Alert, AoE (II), and many more... Favorite gaming platform Xbox 360 Tools of the Trade Pencil, pen, or my finger for digital art. Other Interests Star Trek and beer. Beer and Star Trek.