iaido, npr, pri, wine, beer, buddhism, cooking, graphic design, brain teaser puzzles, hip hop, punk rock, all things independent and free of mass cultural homoginization, photography, scuba, scooters, vespas, mods, tai chi, industrial music, irigaray, nietszche, philosophy as a way of life, snowboarding, reading, thoughtfulness, travelling (especially internationally), meeting new and interesting people and sharing new and interesting ideas, cooking great food, wine, beer, and other finely crafted intoxicants, sitting at coffee shops after they're closed just to finish conversations that have lasted all week, eudimonea, eating coffee gelato with hot sauce. Sharing. Giving. Friendship. Caring. Love.
I'd like to meet:
anyone left of center. preferably who reads... literacy is imperative, or at least the will towards literacy. some people to hang out with and drink beers, preferably good ones, with. Political pundits. Polytheists. Pragmatists. People who might read the NLR or The Nation or even the NYT might be nice too.
I'd like to meet people who actually use reason and an embodied understanding rather than regurgitation and the puddle-deep understanding I usually see. I don't care what your opinion is, as long as it is something you have made your own. By making this opinion your own, through reason and understanding, only then have you started to climb down from the trees and assert your humanity. This opinion may or may not agree with a vast number of opinions out there, but in finding your way to it, rather than just reading a crappy quote of someone that someone else deems credible, you have asserted the only thing that truly separates you from our hairy anscestors. In so, I'd like to meet other humans... and if I am to meet monkeys, I hope they're the small hairy type and not the ones masquerading as humans.
I'm not really a jerk, I just want to find more people who assert themselves in a fashion that attempts to show itself like something other than on a bad daytime drama. Is that too much to ask?
I may seem like a pessimist, but really I'm not - my friends usually ask me how I can be happy all the time - I usually tell them that I just took a breath and I'm pretty sure my heart is beating. I guess I'd like to meet people who can look at the falling sky and still have hope :)
Music:
Most old Oi, Punk, new(er) Emo, Indie, ect... Tegan and Sara, Bravery, Arcade Fire, The Toy Dolls, VNV Nation, Blitz, Eels, Iggy and the Stooges, Social D, New York Dolls, X, The Minibosses, Pennywise, The Postal Service, The Darkness, The Pixies, Frank Black, J5, TMBG, Ugly Duckling, Morrissey, Mindless Self Indulgence, Dialated Peoples, The Cure, Siouxie, Sisters of Mercy, The Decemberists, Funker Vogt, Suicide Commando, Jets to Brazil, Pedro the Lion, Coldplay, Ramones, Pennywise, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Alk3, Front 242, Her Space Holiday, Deathcab for Cutie, Herbie Hancock, Hey Mercedes, The Mountain Goats, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ministry; other stuff most people dont like, know about, or care to know about.
Movies:
depends on the mood... lots of foriegn, anime, dark comedy, kevin smith films, hedwig, ghost dog, young frankenstein, what the bleep do we know, kung-pao - enter the fist, mindwalk, rushmore, goonies, big trouble little china, spinal tap, pi, bowling for columbine, Bubba Ho-Tep, Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness... Bruce Campbell is King, baby. Anything by Wong Kar Wai. Everything is Illuminated is a fantastic film... Too many to list, I could add a new one every day... I am often at Camelview during the day on the weekends...
Television:
Not really into much television, but I like MST3K, Twilight Zone Reruns, Real Time with Bill Maher, Twin Peaks, Family guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman (and just about everything else on Adult Swim), Futurama, Simpsons
Books:
books most people don't read unless forced to through coercion. Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Kurt Vonnegut, Herbert Marcuse, Sarah Vowel, Michael Moore, Douglas Adams, Heidegger, Marcuse, Nietzche, Irigaray, Sartre, Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Marx, Dalai Llama, Tocqueville, William Upski Wimsatt, Stanley Fish, dictionaries - books on etymology, The Giving Tree and everything else by Shel Silverstein
Heroes:
Mr. Rogers, Siddartha Gautama, Jesus (the real one who hung out with hookers and drunks and didn't turn his nose up at people), My many teachers (including my parents), the Dalai Llama, the guy who collects my garbage
