There is an activity floating around facebook at the moment asking people to list 25 random things about themselves.  I’m re-posting it here for the non-facebook users.

1.  I love to wake up my cat when he's sleeping.

2.  When I lived in Brooklyn, I once felt something kind of tickly at the bottom of my pant leg.  I shook my leg, and a cockroach fell out.

3.  For the longest time I was adding an extra R to the name RockeRfeller.  It's actually just Rockefeller.

4.  I was also adding an extra N to the VerraNzano Bridge.  It's actually just Verrazano.

5.  I worked at a Balmers, a youth hostel in Interlaken, Switzerland from 2000-2001.

6.  While at Balmer's I got paid to DJ in the bar / nightclub.  I was behind the decks on New Year's Eve, as 2000 became 2001.  We went with a 2001: A Space Odyssey theme.  We propped out the bar to look like the inside of a spaceship, and I played Deodato's funky, jazzy, disco-y version of the theme from 2001 as midnight approached, timed perfectly so that song climaxed at midnight.  We also played the space trip scene from the movie on one wall during the song.  Furthermore, I wanted to somehow incorporate the iconic monolith from the film.  Each time the monolith is shown, man transcends to a different level of cognition, and the primeval, futuristic and mystic segments of the film (and humanity) are linked.  As DJ for the night, my music choices would do all of that, too.  I was the monolith.  Deep, I know.  Except I screwed up the name, and called myself DJ Obelisk instead of DJ Monolith.  That's not say DJ Obelisk isn't a cool moniker, but I think its amsuing that I dropped the ball on the key element of the night's theme (and the easiest to pull off).  Not that it really mattered, in the end.  The dance floor was too crowded for anyone to see the visuals, and there were probably about 5 or 6 of the 300 people assembled who got the references I was dropping anyway.  Still, it was a great night.

Click here to listen to the song and watch the scene from the movie.

7.  The author who's work I've read more of than any other (by far) is Kurt Vonnegut.

8.  I've seen Phish around 70 times.

9.  I was at the Best College Basketball Game Ever Played.  Duke vs. Kentucky.  NCAA Tourney 1992.  Christian Laettner.

10.  My dream vacation trips are heli-boarding in Alaska and rafting the Colorado thru the Grand Canyon.

11.  I'm not that into sushi.

12.  I totaled 2 cars within 6 months of my 16 birthday, and I haven't been in an accident since.

13.  I cry at the end of It's A Wonderful Life.  Every time.

14. 14. I am currently using sunglasses that used to belong to my wife's grandmother.
    

March 30 update:  I finally got new sunglasses today.  Men’s sunglasses, thank you very much.

15.  My favorite scene from The Sopranos is when AJ comes home after partying all night in the city where he got written on, his face glued to the floor, and his eyebrows shaved off.  Carmela is pissed, and Tony comes storming into the house to yell at him.  AJ comes bouncing down the stairs, trying to head off his angry father, "Oh hey, Dad, I was just taking out the trash," and Tony says, "You look different."  Carmela:  "HE HAS NO EYEBROWS!"

16.  The most I've ever bet on a single hand of blackjack is $150.  I won.

17.  I once bet 5 bucks that a 2 year old would cry at her birthday party when everyone was singing happy birthday.  I lost.

18.  Andy Rooney amuses me.

19.  My favorite throw away line from Return of the Jedi:  "It's an older code, but it checks out.  I was about to clear them."

20.  I write my own grammar rules, and make up words without any hesitation.  Language is a fluid thing, you know.

21.  I have no piercings or tatoos.

22.  The first Presidential election I was able to vote in was 1992.  I voted for Ross Perot.

23.  I love to drive, in pretty much all situations, from NY City to curvy mountain passes.  I had to drive though a river in Costa Rica.

24.  The water was only 6 inches deep, but it was flowing, so, yes, it was technically a river.

25.  I can't wait to get old.  Because I am going to know everything.