I mostly listen to Rock and Pop, but have some favourite songs of many genres including Dance, Rap/Hip Hop, Soft Music, Classical Music (especially Crossover Classic, which I find very fun), Instrumental Music, Country, Rhythm and Blues and Soul, Ethnic Rock, etc.

My favourite Israeli artist is Yehuda Poliker, and my favourite International artist are the Beatles. My favourite Israeli song is “Shlal Sharav” (or “Heat Booty” in English); it is sang by Gidi Gov, but it was composed by Poliker with words written by Meir Ariel. My favourite song in English is “You Gotta Be” by Des’ree.

The Prisoner is my epitome of freakiness. I watched it in the summer vacations on Israeli television during the 80s. It was still infested with 1960s pre- Sesame Street paranoia, but otherwise very cool.

Hatzi Hamenasheh (= the half of menasheh).

Sarah Michelle Gellar. She played Buffy Summers on Buffy, and I was 20 at the time. After I became maniacal, I imagined her as a wild and polyamorous girl who duplicated herself several times using Star Trek transporters and "all of her duplicates came out more normal than her".

As this 1998 email exchange indicates we still held her in some contempt, which is not unusual historically for entertainers.

Keith Parkinson who drew fantasy art (see DuckDuckGo).

My favourite children-oriented book is The Hobbit by Tolkien, which I read first in a translation to Hebrew and then several times in English. Aside from high adventure, I can now say it contained a lot of criticism of the contemporary English society.

My favourite adult-oriented book is The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand which I bought and read once and shortly afterwards my sister confiscated it. Despite loving it, I found it necessary to parody and modernise it, and it is likely that I had a lot of contempt for the original work by Rand.