Reading, photography, writing, movies, sports, things with chilies, sushi, caffeine, fun with tequila and beer and other social lubricants, music of many flavors, finding unusual/forgotten parts of my twin cities, history, travel, art deco, noir, cooking, baking, hiking, biking, finding a scheme to leave me financially independent
The dating angle: An intelligent, cute, caring, complex, liberal/centrist/don't-care-about-crazy-political-shenanigan
s type who can hold a conversation. Someone who shares an interest or two with me. Someone to inspire me to great art. Someone who shakes me up and turns me on to new things. Someone to wander NYC or JC with. I'm open. Surprise me. But bonus points if you like going to the occasional baseball game or Film Forum movie, are the creative type, are tattooed or have a nose piercing.
The friend angle: Um, interesting/fun people to hang with/talk with/laugh with/watch movies with/dine with/drink with/destroy the world with.
I am undecided on puppets with booty.
And One, Antibalas, Cinematic Orchestra, Cubanate, Fela Kuti, Front 242, Goldfrapp, Hate Dept., Jaga Jazzist, KMFDM, Mr. Scruff, Nitzer Ebb, Only Living Witness, Portishead, Darren Price, Sasha & Digweed, Spahn Ranch, Amon Tobin, Tool. For slightly outdated starters. I have a lot of music--grunge, metal, industrial, techno, blues, trip hop, Afrobeat (in rough musical history order)--and once DJed on my college radio station. Lately I like Electric Six, Mylo, Von Iva, She Wants Revenge, The Presets, Slaraffenland, Vive La Fete, Mstrkrft, The Knife, White Rose Movement, Ratatat, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Justice, TEPR and others. Anything French and dirty disco-ish. For more on my latest crushes, go to www.last.fm/user/jersey_citizen .
Chinatown, Gattaca, The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Hard Boiled, The Wild Bunch, The 39 Steps, Trainspotting, Mean Streets, My Man Godfrey, The Lady Eve, The Limey, Chungking Express, Bound, Strangers on a Train, Wings of Desire, Point Blank, Infernal Affairs
Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, the Office, the late but not forgotten Andy Richter and Arrested Development. Sunday (and Monday) football in the fall, and baseball in the summer. Go Dolphins and Mets! The World Cup every four years.
things by Irvine Welsh, Lorrie Moore, Thom Jones, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald, Raymond Carver, Chuck Palahniuk, Philip K. Dick, Michael Chabon, Graham Greene, Paul Auster, Carl Hiaasen. In greater detail: Johnny Got His Gun, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Trainspotting. In less detail: noir; books with awe-inspiring photos; poetry; any page-turning, well-crafted read.
André Kertész, Edward Weston, Philip K. Dick (for being a trippy visionary, not for the paranoia), Chow Yun-Fat, Steve Buscemi. All those big-idea people before me, like the dudes who said, "Hey, let's ferment this agave and see what happens" or whoever found out how to make lambic beer. Genius. Everyone fighting the good anti-W fight.