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Third Rock from The Sun

Author, Naturalist, Motivational Speaker, TV Host, Screenwriter, Director, Actor

Manager: MLS Publisher: Corvallis Press

Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University and The School of Never Regret Anything That Made You Smile.

Reading (rather read than eat), Collecting signed, first-edition books/"Primitive" Art/Gianni Versace designs/Superman Comics ("The Man of Steel" favorite superhero), Marathon Running, Mountain Climbing, Ocean Kayaking, Surfing + Exploring Alaska, Africa and the Astral Plane, and Promoting Love as the new Religion. *My YT channel background honors the elusive African Black Leopard -- its spots only seen in a certain light.*

"Jeremiah Johnson," and the films of Fellini, Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, John Cassavetes, Werner Herzog, and the uber-innovative Jean-Luc Godard. Favorite Actor: Marcello Mastroianni. Actress: Kate Winslet. Ingenue: Catherine Deneuve. Bombshell: Brigitte Bardot. Femme Fatale: Angelina Jolie.

"Learning to Fly" by Pink Floyd (the story of my soul's journey), "Imagine" by John Lennon (the blueprint for peace on earth), Rubber Soul (favorite Beatles album, every song tight and bright), Reggae music while running (the 2-1 rhythmic contraction and expansion most like the human heart beat), Charlie Parker tootin' "April in Paris" on the alto sax, Jimi Hendrix (the coolest rocker and shaman guitarist), Paganini's possessed violin, Chopin's thunderous piano, Vivaldi's verdant Four Seasons, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (always elevates my spirit), Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (send that intricate, multi-layered harpsichord music into space and the aliens will understand us), Mozart's Don Giovanni (love of women) and Wagner's The Ring (love of heroic myth) operas, U2 Bono's wide-open-hearted anthemic voice, the sensuous bossa novas and sambas of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim (Brazil a favorite country), Eminem's "Lose Yourself" (rap as poetry & how to seize the Moment), the Notorious B.I.G. (no rapper throws down like Biggie Smalls), The Songs of the Humpback Whales (Only the males sing during the winters in warm tropical waters, and each song lasts up to 20 minutes and is repeated note-for-note for hours at a time, serving to attract females. The male whales are underwater Pavarottis -- bellowing Arias of Amore, hoping to get lucky with female Humpies. The songs change from year to year, without repeating the same old tune. Chicks dig the love songs -- even if the ladies are 50 feet long and weigh 40 tons!)

The Odyssey by Homer, The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, St. Francis by Nikos Kazantzakis, the Poetry of Emily Dickenson, Pablo Neruda, Hemingway's short stories, the profoundly simple Haikus of the wandering sage Matsuo Basho ("From all these trees--/in salads, soups, everywhere--/cherry blossoms fall"), all the works of Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky (who described the full range of human psychology long before Sigmund Freud), and Antoine de Saint Exupery's The Little Prince (the wisdom of the universe contained in one slim tome).