Music, books, writing, movies, politics, history, cats, architecture, social issues, art, animals, boys, kids under 8 yrs old, and talking about all of those things. Good conversasion and laughter is key in all situations. I want to be Canadian soooo badly. I am one of the least stressed out people you'll ever meet. My motto in life is "Are babies going to die over this?" I have lived a LOT in 42 years and have no regrets. Adjusting to life in Texas is.... interesting.
I'd like to meet:
I NEED FRIENDS IN AUSTIN!! People who are into the same kinda music to go to shows with, have drinks with, hang out, meet new friends thru, etc. People who have parties and BBQs. Girls to go to shop with and bitch about the heat and our men with. It'd be nice to meet other hip folks with kids to hang out with me, Ben, Gena, Coli and Quen. And since I'll now be living in his hometown... I'd really like to meet Will Schaff!
Music:
Some of my faves: Minutemen/fIREHOSE/Watt, Archers of Loaf, Mould/Sugar/Husker, J. Cash, Hum, Pixies, Okkervil River, Reigning Sound, Radiohead, T. Waits, Oblivians, Nick Drake, Replacements/Westerberg, Mingus, Wilco, Okkerville River, Jay Reatard, Promise Ring, Merle Haggard, Dino Jr, Sonic Youth, Iggy, Van Morrison, VU, Neko Case, Big Star, Harlan T. Bobo, Beach Boys, J&M Chain, Maserati, Broken Social Scene, RHP/ Sun Kil Moon / anything Mark Kozelek, King Khan & BBQ, Heavenly, Beatles, Built to Spill, Neil Young, the Fall, the Who, Clash, Shins, Helio Sequence, Do Make Say Think, .... etc. etc.... I'd really like to meet friends who can introduce me to more new music. And then there's all my friends' bands (many of which you can listen to here on myspace!): the M's, Penthouse Sweets, Headache City, Churchbus, Shrieking Violet, Cococoma, Kings County Queens, Jack Grace Band, Melomane, Spoken Four, Ponys, Hot Machines, Ms. Alex White, Plastick Explosives, Geezers, Galactic Inmate, Hex Dispensers, Red Rocket... ALWAYS looking to add to this list! I need to make more friends in the Austin music scene.
Movies:
Do the Right Thing, Garden State, Brokeback Mt, 25th Hour, Fight Club, Little Miss Sunshine, Amalie, Jean de Florette, Lost in Translation, Crash, Babe, Eternal Sunshine..., Big Fish, Monty Python's Holy Grail and Life of Brian and the Meaning of Life, The Gods Must be Crazy, the Lord of the Rings movies, Harry Potter flix
Television:
Sex in the City (RIP), Sopranos, Six Feet Under (RIP), Entourage, Big Love, John from Cincinatti, Flight of the Conchords, (I guess HBO in general?), The Tudors, This American Life, Trading Spaces, Discovery and Int'l History Channels, Seinfeld, VH1Classic, Simpsons, South Park, Nova, lots of movies, CNN, and my guilty pleasure, What Not to Wear.
Books:
I read a lot. Some faves... Murakami, Timothy Findlay, Eggers, Ian McEwan, Roddy Doyle, Robertson Davies, TC Boyle, Eugenides, Dybek, Caleb Carr, JK Rowling (yes), Zadie Smith, Shakespeare, David Foster Wallace, Ha Jin, Seamus Heany, Allan Gurganus, Heinlin, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Safran Foer... to name a few. I'm always discovering new stuff too... read the Believer and McSweeney's and various short story compiliations. I also get Paste and Newsweek mags.
Heroes:
Klaus Fritz Von Kat, the Dalai Lama, my brother Phillip, my memere (what us French Canadians call our grandmother), my daddy, myself, and my personal holy trinity: Mike Watt, Paul Westerberg and Bob Mould.
