Most faculty have off-campus lives, and I'm no different. When I'm not at the College, I enjoy movies, books , music, and surfing the web.
Movies that I could and have watched more than once:
Spartacus ------ Car Wash ------- Monty Python and the Holy Grail ------- Pulp Fiction ------- Batman
A book that all students interested in Social History should read:
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
Novels that I read when I could be reading History:
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, any of the Sherlock Holmes stories
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay & The Final Solution
Novels that all modern Germanists should read:
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain & Dr. Faustus
Alfred Doeblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game & Steppenwolf
CD's I'm listening to these days:
Abigail Washburn, Song of the Traveling Daughter
Uncle Earl, She Waits for Night
Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
My favorite websites:
Banjo Hangout
Birdwatching in the Lowcountry