JayMan Has MANY Interests and Influences

Although I do get linked to anime and nerd culture....a lot, those are not my only passions.....

To clarify this tidbit, here is a list of some of my interests outside of anime

There is no timeline, as the time I became interested with them are interchangeable, not always consistent, not always sequential, and sometimes random

• Manga
• Music 
• Alternative Rock
• Heavy Metal
• Slacker Culture (Jay and Silent Bob. Not a movie-comic. It's a WAY OF LIFE)
• Jock Culture (athletics. I played many sports as a youth, and was on football/baseball teams for a while.
• Straight Edge Culture
• Religion (Christianity, Buddhism, Zen, Shinto, The Bible)
• God
• New Age (Horoscopes, Zodiac Signs, Paganism)
• Mysticism (Zen and Transcendental Meditation)
• Art School Culture (Cal Arts, SVA, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale)
• Education (Teaching, Going to School, School Chums)
• Performance (I kept a joke book I wrote jokes in, Played drums and acoustic guitar
• Fine Art Culture
• Punk Rock
• Personality studies (Myers  Briggs, Zodiac, Carl Jung, Archetypes, Numerology, Introversion)
• TV Culture (I was a real couch potato in the nineties as a kid
• High Tech Culture (let's just say it's gotten really dumbed down over time)
• 90sa nd 80s culture
• The Civil Rights Movement
• Hip-hop culture
• Ethnical culure 
• International culture
• Gamer culture
• Big business and success culture (I read Forbes magazine, daily, often, Used to subscribe)
• Book Culture (I used to browse bookstores like Borders a lot)
• Hollywood Culture (Directors, Producers, Screenwriters, Animation)
• Post-Stern Radio culture 
• Travel culture
• High Society (I have some upper class friends)
• Male, Man, and Masculine Culture - Pride in being a Man.
• Fashion Culture in Anime

Pretty much all I can think of.