I have several. Many of which I can name for you in alphabetical order. But if you're really curious about what I dig, ask me. The stuff I really like I also really like to talk about.
I'd like to meet:
Smart People, Wickedly Funny People, Creative People, Open Minded People, Devious People, Completely Dorky People, Brave People, Opinionated People, Passionate People, Real People.
People I'd Like Not to Meet:
Know-It-Alls, Disrespectful Pricks, Delusional Narcissists, Gossipy Jerks, Pathologically Entitled Blow Hards, Willfully Ignorant Loud Mouths, Vapid Douchebags, Religious Zealots, Consumer Zombies, Self-Righteous Homophobes, Men Slathered in Macho Cheese.
Music:
I have 4000 entries on my iPod presently and it doesn't feel like nearly enough. I like music in all kinds of genres (and yes, that includes rap and country and classical all swirled up in there too).I think it'd be simpler to talk about what kind of music I don't like. I don't like music that doesn't have heart, that doesn't come from a real place and/or that isn't an expression of something deeply felt. If it's got moxy and soul, regardless of what noise it makes when it comes out, I'm on board.
Movies:
I'm going to be keeping a list of all the movies I watch starting in January 2007. I've been told I watch a lot and I want to know how much "a lot " actually is. I'll be keeping a running list of them all on my blog here.
I love movies. I love to watch them. I love to analyze them. I love to talk about them and read about them and sit for long periods of time and decide how I really feel about them. I tend to know pretty quickly if I like or don't like something, but with movies, I also tend to formulate rather detailed explanations about what, specifically, I liked or didn't like and why. I used to be embarrassed about how into movies I am. I'm not any more. If you want to go to a movie or chat about a movie, recommend a movie or debate the relative merits of a movie, I'm your girl.
Mutant Reviewers From Hell
I wrote insanely entertaining movie reviews and features for them for about 5 years . According to my husband, my review of Matrix: Revolutions is the best movie review he's ever read. I'm particularly proud of my You Know, That Guy! series.
Television:
TV shows I'd lay down in traffic for.
Arrested Development, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Freaks and Geeks, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Jackass, Mr. Show, Oz, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Sifl and Olly, South Park, Spaced, Sports Night, The Daily Show, The Shield, The Young Ones
I have an ongoing love/hate relationship with TV. I love to hate it and hate to love it. And I do both regularly.
Stuff I watch regularly or will sit and watch if it comes on.
Heroes, Firefly, Cash Cab, Mythbusters, Project Runway, The Office, My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock, House, The Biggest Loser, Celebrity Fit Club, any and all pop culture list shows (dear lord I'm addicted to these. I don't even care what the list is pertaining to), Inside the Actors Studio, Food Challenge, Iron Chef, Intervention, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Nature documentaries about crazy sea-dwelling invertabrates, Cold Case Files, American Justice, all the Law and Orders, Ninja Warrior, Colbert Report,
Just a note in the spirit of honesty...
If you're the kind of person who "just [doesn't] get what's so great about The Simpsons", chances are good that I'm the kind of person who's not going to get what's so great about you.
Also, for the record, when I get on Cash Cab and kick all sorts of general knowledge question ass up and down the streets of NYC and Ben Bailey whips around with a giant handful of dough that I can either take and walk away with or bet it all, I'm definitely going double or nothing on the video bonus question.
Books:
Generalities - true crime, criminal profiling, home improvement (new house, sudden new interest in how to install sinks), dictionaries and books about language, james dean biographies
Specifics:
The Little Prince - Antione de St. Euxpery, The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff, Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins, The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison , Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver, To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls - Joan Brumberg, Our Guys - Bernard Lefkowitz, Cruel Shoes - Steve Martin
The truth: I mostly read magazines, newspapers and stuff on the interweb. Voraciously.
Heroes:
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Robert Ingersoll
Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
H. L. Mencken
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot.
Mark Twain
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
Hunter S. Thompson
