Shabu-Shabu, disc, competancy, good driving, precision of language, Apple, mutual funds, snare drums, butts, the sweet spot, feel, Cuba, Ghana, getting better, cinema, savasana, the Ningaloo and the Northwest Cape of WA, a properly made gimlet--up, limit hold-em, analog-digital conversion, Trader Joe's peanut butter cups, stereo, English football, cognitive ability, good punctuation, being big in Japan, I used to play squash a lot, Fender Jazz, smooching hot ladies, overplaying at rehearsal, improving my Yoga practice, traveling, cochinita pibil from Yuca's, Champion's League, ping-pong, analog summing, crosswords, smart people, critical thinking, totally kicking everyone's ass at thumb wrestling,
I'd like to meet:
Tom Jenkinson, Zinedine Zidane, Steve Jobs, Borat, Christopher Hitchens, self-transforming machine elves, Bill Watterson, Steve Gadd, Stewart Copeland, Chan Wook Park, Harmony Faith Lane, Vesper Lynd, Ellis De Vries, Sheba Hart, Sam Harris (I met Sam), Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, Ricky Gervais, The Nightfly, the Trash-heap, the Ghost of Sparta. And Zoe Bell. Sweet as.
Music:
The Meters, Squarepusher, Bach, Doudou Rose, Steely Dan, Joni with Jaco, Meshuggah, Yevevu, Brekete, Augustus Pablo, Zappa with Vinnie, Les Ballets Africains, Atomic Bomb Zigoto, Gilberto Gil, Beethoven's late quartets, Glenn Gould, Kneebody, Woven, Thomas Mapfumo, Sam Cooke, Jonas Sithole, Beatles, The Police, Me, Saint-Saens, Aphex Twin, Caetano Veloso, Jon Brion, Autechre, Chris Whitley, Huun-Huur Tu, King Tubby, Scientist, Prince Jammy, Gregory Isaacs, Roots Radics, Dilla, Kool Keith, J-Live, Charlie Hunter, Jeff Buckley, Los Munequitos de Matanzas, Los Papines, Neils Henning Orsted Petersen, Pat Metheny, Steve Lacy, Prefuse 73, Robson Banda, Sherman Oaks, The Shins, Ivo Papasov, Boubacar Diagne, The Firdu Fula drummers, Swapan Chaudhuri, The Hands On'semble, Oliver Nelson, Tom Waits, Tony Allen, Weather Report, Wesley Willis, Bjork, Dave Holland, Paul Chambers, Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Prokofiev, Living Colour, The Bad Plus, Alfred Ladzekpo playing Adzomani, Ligeti, Tower of Power, Jaco Pastorious, Section 8, The 2Piece, The Hex, The Secret Life Of Sharks, Mama's Kitchen, Adapter, Woeto drummers, Los Lobos, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, my teachers from Anyako, Kakraba Lobi, Casey and his Brother, Francois Rabbath, Edgar Meyer, bluegrass, anything Gnawa, anything from Mali, anything Barrett brothers, and a whole bunch of other shit you've never heard of.
Movies:
The Man With the Movie Camera, The Elephant Man, Raising Arizona, Dr. Strangelove, Burnt By the Sun, The General, The Ladykillers (Ealing), Alien, Miller's Crossing, Late Marriage, Solaris (Tarkovsky), Magnolia, Raging Bull, Rushmore, Akira, MP and the Holy Grail, Chopper, Spellbound, LOTR, Dog Day Afternoon, The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk, Narc, In the Mood For Love, Audition, Code 46, Mean Streets, The Shining, Happiness of the Katakuris, Naked, Totoro, The Battle For Algiers, Infernal Affairs, Beetlejuice, Robocop, Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge On the River Kwai, Oldboy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Story of Ricky, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rear Window, The Limey, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Man Bites Dog, Fist of Legend, Forgotten Silver, Bad Education, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Twilight Samurai, The Idiots, Tristram Shandy--a Cock and Bull Story, Wages of Fear, The New World, King Kong, The Assasination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, etc.
Television:
Monty Python's Flying Circus, Jeopardy, The Wire, The Sopranos, The Young Ones, Arrested Development, Firefly, Wildboyz, Penn and Teller's Bullshit!, The Shield, People's Court, Judge Mathis, Antiques Roadshow, The Office (UK), Extras, The Simpsons, South Park, Heroes, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, UFC
Books:
Uhh, like , I don't really read. Just kidding, of course I fucking read.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Cosmic Trigger, Douglas Adams, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Illywhacker, Bliss; Goedel, Escher, Bach; the Aeneid, Guns Germs and Steel, LOTR, The Silmarillion, The Gilded Bat, The Corrections, the Hyperion Cantos, Roger's Profanisaurus, Interstellar Pig, City of Quartz, Red Mars, George R.R. Martin, OED, The End Of Faith, The Sparrow, The God Delusion, Letter To a Christian Nation, Pattern Rcognition
Heroes:
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