Full Name: Lars Helmer Hansen.
Age: 40-Something.
Place of Birth: Denmark.
Marital Status: Married.
Email:
larshhansen2003@yahoo.com
Zodiac Sign:
Scorpio (For those that believe in that stuff).
Graduated:
State University of New York at Stony Brook, SUNY.
Degree: BA.
Major: Political Science
Minor: Journalism
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Golden Key and Pi Sigma Alpha National Honor
Societies.
Languages:
I speak both English and Danish. I can understand
Swedish and Norwegian.
Occupation:
Campus Supervisor, The Arrow Project of Maryland.
Favorite Contemporary Musicians:
Led Zeppelin, Scorpions, Accept (with Udo),
Live,
Garth Brooks,
AC/DC and
Deep Purple
(+ spinoffs:
Whitesnake, Rainbow
and
The Ian Gillian Band). Lately, Rammstien "Sehnsuckt", Jennifer Lopez, and
Vengaboys.
Favorite Classical Composer:
Strauss(Junior).
Favorite TV Shows:
'Star Trek' (the orig. series),
'Monday Night Football' and
'Nature'(on PBS).
Favorite Films:
'The Fifth Element' and anything by
Kurosawa
(like 'Ran').
Last Films Seen:
'Spiderman' - Had to see this much hyped film. All-in-all a good effort. In the comic-book genre (Batman, X-Men etc.), it is lacking by comparison. But, a great film if you're looking for brain-dead entertainment.
'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' - after all the talk, I had to see this one. Okay it's a kung-fu movie {insert retching sound here} - but I liked it - sort of. Liked the story, the actors and the production values in general - hated the 'Matrix'-like special effects. Those were just stupid. Excellent ending though - totally non-Hollywood.
'Jurassic Park III' - I went prepared to be underwhelmed (after JPII, which stunk), but was pleasently surprised. JPIII was about as good as JPI, and it was actually funny at times. Let's forget JPII, write it off as a glitch, and make JPIV 'Born to be Free'!
Favorite Books:
The
'Dune' series by Frank Herbert,
'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu and 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'
by Douglas Adams.
Last Books Read:
Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake - Vampire Slayer series. Not my normal fare, but a guilty pleasure (pardon the pun, fellow fans of Ms. Blake) - Hamilton's world is contemporary to ours, except for the fact that Vampires, Zombies and Warewolves are real and some even have legal protections. We follow Anita's wild experiances (and romantic entanglements) with the monsterous population of St. Louis and environs. One critic referred to the series as an R-rated 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' - this is apt indeed. Once bitten, this series is curiously addictive.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) - One of the Russian author's most
well-known works, C & P is about murder and rebirth, the Russian soul, and the effects of the
Enlightenment on Russian thinking. The reader will be surprized with how Dostoyevsky skillfully
leads the reader to sympathize with an axe-murderer!
Peter the Great, His Life and World by Robert K. Massie - Well deserving of the
Pulitzer Prize that it won, this book is an excellent read for History-buffs as well as people
who just like a good story well-told. But if you are a history-addict, this book is a 'must-have'
addition to your library.
Billions & Billions by Carl Sagan. The last book written by Carl Sagan, world famous
popularizer of science and space exploration, written just before his death. Sagan covers a
broad range of issues from Atomic Weapons to his thoughts about death. A bittersweet read
for his fans.
Genghis Khan by Paul Ratchnevsky. Very informative book about one of history's
most famous, yet most poorly understood, figures. The book suffers from poor editing - footnotes
were incoperated into the text resulting in much repetitive reading. Never the less, this book
is a font of knoweledge and should be a standard for anyone interested in Genghis and the
Mongols.
Napoleon by Felix Markham. A somewhat dated account of the rise and fall of
France's national hero. Interesting in that this is the first book I've read on Boney that goes
into detail about the cause/s of his death.
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - A difficult to read, though very
well written, classic of Russian and indeed world literature. Once I got a hold of the unusual
style in which the story is told, I was totally captured by Dostoyevsky's deep perception of
human-frailty and the suffering that often accompanies it. As "Notes” was written in 1864
(before his classics like 'Crime and Punishment'), it is an excellent primer for those wishing to
read Dostoyevsky's larger, more well known, works.
Sun Power by Ralph Nansen - Interesting, both on Solar Energy and the
politics which have surrounded it.
Favorite Mammals:
The German Sheppard Dog,especialy my GSD, Elsinor, and Leopards.
Favorite Birds:
Birds of Prey and New World Warblers (in general).
Blue Jays (in detail - no pun intended).
Favorite Color:
Lemon Yellow.
Favorite Food:
Anything my wife and I cook together.
Favorite Drinks:
Tuborg 'Green Label' Beer or Gin and Tonic with
a twist of Lemon.
What I Like:
Drawing, Travel, History, Good Food, Poetry, Computer Strategy Games,
like Civilization IV, and the fall of dictatorships (both Eastern and Western).
What I Hate:
Ignorance, Duplicity, Lawyers, Cultural Imperialism,
Abstract "Art", Microsoft Windows, the European Union and the
Destruction of the Environment. (Oh yeah, and Cold Weather too!)
Places I'd Like to Visit:
The American Southwest,
Alaska,
Hawai'i,
Japan,
Australia,
India,
Kenya, Portugal, Eastern Europe (especially
Moscow and St. Petersburg), Ireland,
Belize, Peru and Costa
Rica.
What I'm probably thinking about RIGHT NOW:
My Wife.
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