I think I'm getting past that "I'm going to be a bum because I CAN" stage. Although my alltime favorite interests will always be Sleeping and Eating - especially for a prolonged period of time in which I stuff myself till I LITERALLY cannot move (unlike the skinny ass posers who CLAIM they can eat and like to talk all big but can't lay it down) I actually found that given a copious amount of free time...I have a lot of interests, which I will list regardless of how lame people think I am: writing shit on my Myspace for no apparent reason (which is odd b/c I generally don't like talking about myself), reading, bowling snowboarding, shopping, beating on little kids,dancing, any type of "making shit" which includes sewing, knitting, painting that type of shit, being cynical and sarcastic, watching MMA, the Warriors and the A's,umm...gambling, psychoanalyzing people (everyone does it...don't lie) using big words to sound intelligent, ghetto arguing with people for the sake of arguing(which is hard to explain and characterize, but I think most people will understand) and my all time favorite...playing "wouldn't it be fun if we dropped (INSERT NAME HERE) off in North Richmond" which, just to clarify, does not mean I'm trying to come off like I'm hard or some shit like that...it just really is amusing/and is characteristic of my cynical personality.
Maybe if I list Bay Area/Hyphy music right here people will think I'm hard/cool - than again they might think I'm a complete middle-class poser who's never been anywhere near an urban area that even minutely resembles a "hood" or a "ghetto" but despite my insecurities about being said middle-class poser, I really don't give a shit what people think. By the way, I actually do listen to Hyphy music (In addition to just about everything except country) but as evident through my uncool use of the terminology "Hyphy music" I obviously know nothing about the urban culture from which this music stems.
300, Letters from Iwo Jima, Gridiron Gang, The Departed, The Last Samurai, Gladiator, Love & Basketball, Crazy/Beautiful, Save the Last Dance, Closer.. and a lot more I just can't remember them all
I love TV...but not as much as Annie Shiraishi
BOOKS!! I LOVE BOOKS! yes I know I'm a dork, and probably the only person that actually reads...and I am going to fucking share all my favorites because understanding my taste in literature is critical to understanding me. I actually usually list them when I blog but some of my favorite lesser-known authors are - Jonathan Kozol, Milton Murayama, Nora Okja Keller, Alan Brennert, Kiana Davenport, Don Lee, Leon Uris, Bharati Mukherjee, Jamaica Kincaid, Yukio Mishima, Julie Otsuka, Ruth Ozeki, Todd Shimoda, Lois-Ann Yamanaka and Geling Yan - so there they are, read them and fuck you very much (A nice phrase I picked up off Sharon) if you've got something smart to say about my shit
Anyone who works to make people's lives better. Which is fucking sappy and all that good shit - but honestly, human beings are really fucking self-absorbed and unthankful - so anyone who tries to help people for a prolonged period of time deserves to be appreciated and looked up to.