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I'd like to meet:
"If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. And if you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you."
-- Isaac Jaffe, "Sports Night"
Anyone with something to say.
Music:
Annie Lennox, Arcade Fire, Cher, Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper, David Gray, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Dionne Warwick, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Eurythmics, The Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac, Frou Frou, Gnarls Barkley, Goo Goo Dolls, Jamie Cullum, Jamiroquai, Jason Mraz, Johnny Cash, Macy Gray, Madonna, Magnetic Fields, Marianne Faithfull, Missy Elliot, Moby, My Chemical Romance, Natalie Merchant, Neil Finn, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Drake, Niko Valkeapaa, OK Go, Patrick Wolf, Richard Ashcroft, Rufus Wainwright, Saint Etienne, Smokey Robinson, Snook, Spiritualized, Sufjan Stevens, Texas, The Postal Service, Thievery Corporation, Tom Waits, Virginia Rodrigues, The Walkmen, Wolf Parade, Yo Yo Ma, The Pipettes, Paul Michel
Movies:
28 Days, Adam and Steve, Angels in America, Basquiat, Beautiful Thing, Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Charade, Clockwork Orange, Edward II, Equilibrium, Fahrenheit 451, Federico Fellini, Fellini Satrycon, dystopian movies, Harold and Maude, Home Fries, indie flicks, Kundun, Latter Days, La Dolce Vita, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Memoirs of a Geisha, Moulin Rouge!, Pow Wow Highway, Requiem for a Dream, Richard III, Rushmore, Sister Act, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Smoke Signals, The Business of Fancydancing, The Pillow Book, The Red Violin, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Virgin Suicides, Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine, Vertigo, Wonder Boys, Wes Anderson
Television:
Aaron Sorkin, Ab Fab, Britcoms, The Cosby Show, Daria, Dead Like Me, Dynasty, Fairly Odd Parents, Law and Order, My So-Called Life, Project Runway, Queer as Folk, Queer Eye, Radio Free Roscoe, Roseanne, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Simpsons, The West Wing, Degrassi, The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard, Exes and Ohs, Futurama, Family Guy
Books:
Albert Camus, Allan Ginsberg, Augusten Burroughs, Ayn Rand, Christopher Moore, David Rakoff, David Sedaris, Jalaladin Rumi, John Steinbeck, Sarah Vowell, Sherman Alexie, Walt Whitman, William Least Heat Moon
Heroes:
My great-great grandfather, Iron Shell.
Despite his distaste for Two Spirit individuals, as quoted in The Sioux: A Warrior Nation by Royal B. Hassrick.
