Writing comics and other wordy things, cool breezes, good walking shoes, making my girl laugh, figuring out how the world works, and that intangible, freedom.
I'd like to meet:
Warm souls who aren't afraid of the world around them. Politics, cosmology, comics, the fantastic, art and the stage all regularly amble into conversation, so be ready.
(And if you think government and/or politics don't involve you, here's a blanket, 'cos you're obviously still dreaming. Those who show up and get involved are the ones who make things happen.)
(OYÉ FUCKWITS: stop dropping spam friend requests in my emailbox and trying to get me to listen to your band if you can't be bothered to look at what kind of music I like. Just because I live in Austin doesn't mean I want to check out your shitty metal group.)
Music:
Kaki King, Lyrics Born, Regina Spektor, R.E.M., The Beatles, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, They Might Be Giants (the next best thing to Saturday morning cartoons), Elvis Costello, and a million and a half bands whose one album/track I've dug on and dug up for my iPod.
Movies:
Sex & Lucia, After Life, Nina Takes a Lover, Nobody Knows (Dare mo Shirenai), Pulse (Kairo), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The City of Lost Children, Wild at Heart ... for starters.
Television:
Not too much of this. Reality TV is a plague. Been enjoying Lost, Battlestar Galactica, the new Doctor Who, ReGenesis, Spaced, The West Wing (the Sorkin years) and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Millennium (2nd season), The Prisoner, Babylon 5/Crusade, the stray excellent anime (Haibane Renmei/Cowboy Bebop/Lain).
Books:
(Comics/graphic novels have the publisher after the author)
The Sparrow, and its sequel, Children of G-d (Mary Doria Russell); Finder (Carla Speed McNeil, Lightspeed Press); Sleeping in Flame (Jonathan Carroll); the Griffin and Sabine books; 100% (Paul Pope, DC Comics/Vertigo); Planetes (Makoto Yukimura ,Tokyopop); Party Out of Bounds (history of the Athens, GA music scene by Rodger Alan Brown); Goodbye Chunky Rice (Craig Thompson, Top Shelf); Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami); Zen and the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury); Ibsen: The Major Prose Plays (Rolf Fjelde, trans.), Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Bryan Lee O'Malley, Oni Press).
Currently reading The Art of Happiness (the Dalai Lama), The Second Bill of Rights (Cass Sunstein), and a few other things.
Heroes:
Ray Bradbury, Franklin Roosevelt, Hallie Flanagan (administrator of the Federal Theater Project during the WPA of the 1930s), politicians who have minds of their fucking own.
