art, design, business, economics, international cuisine, international relations, freestyle BMX, history, skateboarding, libertarian politics, market anarchism, modern living spaces, open-source software, coffee, anthropology, wine, Sudbury schools, New Urbanism
Local people who wanna do recreational stuff like hiking, biking, tennis, canoeing, etc. as well as go out in DC & Baltimore.
independent / underground / experimental hip-hop, drum & bass, house, jazz, turntablism, dub, EBM/industrial, ambient, goa/psytrance, downtempo, new wave, IDM, punk/hardcore, funk, go-go, post rock, metal, 60's psychedelia, gospel, drums, bluegrass, more
Fantastic Planet, Top Secret!, Rock & Roll High School, Star Wars, Brazil, Ghost World, Repo Man, Memento, A Beautiful Mind, Amelie, Being John Malkovich, Run Lola Run, Fight Club, Bowling for Columbine, Willy Wonka & the CF, Spirited Away, Secretary, The City of Lost Children, Me and You and Everyone We Know, THX 1138
The Simpsons.
Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, The Wealth of Nations, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Out of America, When Rabbit Howled, The Corner, How to Make Love to a Woman
Anyone with the guts to speak up against conventional wisdom when it is obviously flat wrong. It's lonely being the first person to speak up, and in fact many in history have been executed for such. However, once that first person speaks, the second and third are able to chime in "me too" and before you know it a hundred thousand have spoken in agreement, and all of a sudden conventional wisdom isn't so conventional anymore, and the world has changed for the better. So yeah, my heroes are the people who get that process rolling. (Although, it's always amusing to watch those who rail against conventional wisdom when it's right.) Also, Kraftwerk .