brains, poisons, dogs, bikes, motorcycles, computers, playing music, listening to music, talking shit about music, hbo original programming, bob odenkirk, the blackboard transaction system, medical oddities, functional MRI (fMRI). linguistics, mineral water, seltzer, but not club soda. drinking. bourbon. eating. grilled cheese. getting into fights down at the mall. hugging dogs.
I'd like to meet:
good kids and bad kids
Music:
shoegaze, punk rock, garage, power pop, big star, beach boys, slowdive, my bloody valentine, television, amusement parks on fire, mew, ulrich schnauss, m83, the velvet underground, todd rundgren, nick lowe, teenage fanclub, t rex, marc bolan, the sonics, smashing pumpkins, the byrds, teardrop explodes, the records, the meeting places, air formation, john cale, monster movie, the raspberries, the left banke, ned's atomic dustbin, the ramones, drop nineteens, e.l.o., jawbreaker, samiam, lifetime, avail, sick sick birds, the thumbs, the damned, embrace, black sabbath, new order, the spiders, the zombies, for against, doves, pale saints, ride, swervedriver, catherine wheel, the byrds, iron maiden, the queers, squeeze, sticks and stones, tears for fears, embrace, anything with phil spector, astrobrite, chameleons UK, flamin groovies, cheap trick, steely dan, jesus and mary chain, any trouble, bruce springsteen, blah, i can never think of all the bands i like when asked. more TK
Movies:
i am going to abstain from this one because i have seen three movies in my life -- ok i've seen more than that but not many more and i should be in the remedial cinema class. the warriors. 24 hour party people. lotr. wicker man. shaun of the dead. threads. the day after. war games. i cried like a child at the end of terminator 2!
Television:
the sopranos, the daily show, colbert, oz, saturday night live, mr. show, freaks and geeks, 24, law and order, law and order CRIMINAL INTENT, the office, spaced, look around you, curb your enthusiasm, seinfeld, documentaries about brains and/or poisons and/or true crime, alan partridge, chris morris, big train, league of gentelmen, the day today, gordon ramsey's kitchen nightmares, CHiPS, knowing me knowing you, buffy the vampire slayer, angel, firefly, arrested development (!!!!), the wire, bad girls, top chef!
Books:
young adult fiction, programming perl, vs ramachandran - phantoms in the brain, steven pinker, oliver sacks, john bellairs, ha jin, johnathan strange and mr. norrell, books about rock and/or roll, TRUE CRIME, the shadow over insmouth.
Heroes:
oliver sacks, brian wilson, steven van zandt, clive shropshire,and last but not least; Horatio de la Rocha
