travel, road trips, motorsports, journalism, photography, live theatre, art, science and technology, cars, scooters, motorcycles
Anyone who is doing something interesting with their life... travel, learning, stuff like that. Being passionate about something makes one much more interesting.
Sicko, Knocked Up, The Lives of Others, Blade Runner (the director's cut), Farenheit 451, The Big Lebowski, Grand Prix, Le Mans, Grosse Pointe Blank, Bridge on the River Kwai, Vanishing Point (the original, not the lame-o 1997 remake), Cars, Ratatouille (so sue me...)
Movies on CBC British Columbia (fewer commercial breaks in the movies, and they leave the "bad" words in!) Futurama, Veronica Mars, daVinci's Inquest/City Hall, K-Ville.
Now reading: Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots by Sam Moses. Recently read: Speed Tribes, by Karl Taro Greenfield; Vroom with a View, by Peter Moore; What's the Matter With Kansas?, by Thomas Frank. Also, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Watership Down by Richard Adams, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Dark Age Coming, both by Jane Jacobs
My intelligent, wise, funny-as-hell friend Frank Eubel, who passed to the next life in 2004. I'm sure by now Frank has managed to prove to Aristotle (using his own philosophical arguments) that he, Aristotle, doesn't exist...