Metropolitan areas and lifestyle, Ethnic foods, Seafood (Sushi in particular), Architecture, Design, Cabaret, Burlesque and Fetish, Industrial Design, Engineering, Logic, Science and the Scientific Method, Morality, Electronics and Robotics, Philosophy, Psychology, Physical Cosmology, Astronomy, Particle-Colliders and Accelerators, Quantum Physics.
I'd like to meet:
Atheists, Skeptics, Scientists, Secularists, Socialists, Anarchists, Libertarians, Humanists, Eupraxsophists and Freethinkers of all types.
Music:
The interesting, the controversial, the underground. Electronica, Industrial, Futurepop, Synthpop, Hard Trance, EMB, Aggrotech, Goth Metal, Progressive Metal. Although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle and sometimes open to individual interpretation.
Movies:
My favorite movie is Primer
Sunshine, The Matrix, American Psycho, Secretary, Pi, Equilibrium, Contact.
Indie cinema. Film noir (especially the classics). Open endings. Dramatic sci-fi movies that make my head hurt. Dry, cynical dialogue, humor, and otherwise skeptical attitudes toward social norms. I also love reading subtitles :)
Television:
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, MythBusters, Entourage, Ali G, The Office (UK), Aeon Flux, Futurama, BBC Science, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Nova, Bill Nye, Cosmos, Planet Earth.
Books:
Architecture and Design. Philosophy. Graphic Novels. Science books. National Geographic. Popular Science. Discover Magazine. Wired. Scientific American. The Dose. Cyberpunk Novels. Hard Science Fiction.
Heroes:
Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Michio Kaku, Erwin Schrödinger, Bill Nye, Charles Messier, James Randi, Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Dawkins, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Kinsey, Robert A. Heinlein, Nikola Tesla, William Gibson, Gene Roddenberry, Sigmund Freud, Paul Kurtz, etc.
