Interests & Hobbies

Various historical figures, locations, languages, and cultures of:  

• 3rd Century BCE - 1st century CE Egypt (Ptolemaic Egypt)
• 2nd Century BCE Social Wars of the Roman Republic (Gracchi etc.)
• 1st Century BCE Gallic Wars/Civil War of The Roman Republic (Caesar)
• 1st-2nd Century CE Pax Romana/ 5 Good Emperors
• 4th - 7th Century Anglo-Saxon Migration/Invasion
• 8th-11th Century Wessex, Mercia, and Northumbria
• 5th - 9th Century Ireland, Cornwall, and Wales
• 13th- 16th Century Scotland
• 8th-10th Century France, Lotharingia, HRE
• 9th-11th Century Al- Andalus, Magreb, N. Africa
• 9th-13th Century Roman Empire, Constantinople, Byzantines
• 8th - 12th Century Iraq, Egypt, N. Africa, Syria, and Arabia
• 11th - 12th Century Normandy, England, and Sicily/Calabria (Normans!)
• 13th-16th Century Venice
• 14th Century Avignon Papacy
• 14th Century Black Death
• 14th-16th Century Renaissance Italy (Rome, Florence, Naples, Venice, Milan)
• 15th-17th Century Reformation/ Dissolution of the Monasteries (England)

Favorite Movies

Musicals:

• Mamma Mia 1 & 2
• Tenacious D
• The Producers
• Moulin Rouge

• LOTR
• Hobbit
• POTC 1 - 3

• The Big Lebowski
• Jay and Silent Bob 1 & 2
• Clerks 1 & 2
• Dazed and Confused
• Up In Smoke
• Pineapple Express
• Monty Python Holy Grail
• Life of Brian
• Robin Hood Men in Tights
• History of The World Part 1

• Memoirs of a Geisha
• The Birdcage
• V for Vendetta
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Princess Bride
• Breakfast Club
• 1917
• The Great Gatsby (2013)

• Devil's Rejects
• Beetlejuice
• Friday the 13th
• Aliens
• Halloween
• The Collector

Favorite TV Series

Netflix Original List

1. The Umbrella Academy
2. Stranger Things
3. The Crown
4. Roman Empire
5. Medici the Magnificent
6. Trailer Park Boys
7. The Politician
8. Hollywood
9. The Witcher
10. Tossup!
11. - Marco Polo
12. - Cobra Kai
13. - I Am Not Okay With This

• 1 The Borgias
• 2 The Tudors
• 3 Avatar The Last Airbender
• 4 Shameless
• 5 Code Geass
• 6 Umbrella Academy
• 7 Better Call Saul
• 8 Stranger Things
• 9 The Crown
• 10 Roman Empire
• 11 Medici the Magnificent
• 12 Trailer Park Boys

• ROME (HBO)
• Ozark
• Cursed
• The Queen's Gambit
• Grace and Frankie
• Russian Doll
• Shameless
• Space Force
• Barbarians
• Suburra
• The Explained series (there are a few)
• Dirty Money
• Rise of Empries: Ottoman
• Marco Polo
• Cobra Kai
• I Am Not Okay With This
• The End of the Fucking World
• Frontier
• AJ and the Queen
• House of Cards
• The Borgias
• The Tudors
• Troy Fall of a City
• Turn Washington's Spies
• Anne with an E
• The Queen (movie)
• The King (movie)
• The Last Czars
• Knightfall
• The Last Kingdom
• Outlaw King (movie)
• Capital in the Twnty-First Century
• Better Call Saul
• Versailles
• Tiger King (lol)
• Unsolved Mysteries
• Peaky Blinders
• Avatar The Last Airbender (both seasons)
• Code Geass (my favorite anime!)
• The English Game
• Eurovision (movie)
• Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
• Self Made
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 (movie)
• Enola Holmes (movie)
• Downton Abbey
• Victoria
• Last Tango in Halifax
• Catherine The Great (Hulu)
• Plebs (Hulu)
• Various The Great Courses/Wondrium lectures/courses
• South Park
• Futurama
• King of The Hill
• Metalocalypse
• The White Queen
• The White Princess
• The Spanish Princess
• Harlots (Hulu)
• Barkskins (Hulu)
• Big Bang Theory
• Young Sheldon
• Law and Order SVU
• The Flash
• The 100

Favorite Writers

• Tolkien
• Rowling
• Lewis
• Philippa Gregory
• Tacitus
• Homer
• Eleanor of Aquitane
• Machiavelli
• Anna Komnena
• Snori Sturlison
• T.H. White
• Chaucer
• Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford

Favorite Games

• World of Warcraft
• Dungeons and Dragons
• Halo 3, Reach, 4
• Lord of The Rings Online
• House Flipper
• Minecraft