I like a lot of things, so I'm sure no one will begrudge it if I copy and paste my LJ interests list here in order to give people an idea of the kind of stuff I dig:alphabet, altcountry, american sign language, art, bluegrass, blues, book stores, books, carpentry, child language acquisition, clarinet, code-switching, cognitive science, communication, counting crows, creoles, delillo, descriptivism, dialectology, dialects, dictionaries, discourse analysis, drawing, e.e. cummings, emerson, english, etymology, floccinaucinihilipilification, folk music, folklore, friends, fun, gender, generative grammar, geography, geology, george lakoff, georgia, georgia southern university, grammar, greg brown, guitar, gullah, hampton roads, historical linguistics, inga muscio, internet, jazz, journalism, language, languages, laughing, learning, linguistic theory, linguistics, literature, macintosh, metaphors, morphemes, morphology, music, my car, my saturn, nature, newspaper, noam chomsky, non-fiction, norfolk, north carolina, npr, oceanography, oceans, phonemes, phones, phonetics, phonology, photography, pidgins, pneumothorax, poetry, pragmatics, prose, psychology, punk rock, radical politics, railroad tracks, realism, revolution, rhetoric, rock, savannah, scott miller, second language acquistion, semantics, sexuality, shakespeare, singing, sleep paralysis, socialism, sociolinguistics, sociology, southern culture, southern vowel shift, spanish, spirituality, spontaneous pneumothorax, steven pinker, stream of consciousness, sushi, swimming, syntactic theory, syntax, tattoos, thoreau, tok pisin, tom waits, toys, trains, transcendentalism, travel, universal grammar, vampires, virginia, virginia beach, walking, whitman, william carlos williams, words, writing, yoga.
I'd like to meet:
Just friends. I'm happily married.
Music:
Rock, folk, alternative country, blues, jazz, all kinds of other stuff...
Movies:
My two favorite movies are Big Fish and Stranger Than Fiction, but I love many more... too many to list.
Television:
I despise television. Except interesting learning shows. And Star Trek. And Stargate. And South Park. And Family Guy...OK, so it's a love/hate thing.
Books:
I like children's books. They keep me young. Anything by Francesca Lia Block, Neil Gaiman, Don Delillo or Ken Kalfus makes me happy.
Heroes:
My heroes are my friends. They make life worth living.
