Besides Music, Movies and Reading, I like:
Games(most anything, but especially "Acquire"), Conversing, Cooking, Eating, Drinking, Dancing, Sports, Coaching.
I'd like to meet:
Real People. Real, messed up, try their best and it's never quite good enough, but that's okay, let's just call it a day, grab a bite to eat and a brew, and see what tomorrow brings, kinda people.
Snowboarders!
Music:
U2
The Frames
Spoon
Cake
Jack Johnson
Guster
Carbon Leaf
The Nightwatchman
Blue October
Linkin Park
Ben Harper
Moses Mayfield
MuteMath
The Cranberries
David Gray
The Barenaked Ladies
Rage Against The Machine
Jimmy Eat World
Stained
Vertical Horizon
Damien Rice
Snow Patrol
Keane
The Killers
Green Day
Oasis
The Offspring
Howie Day
Movies:
In Bruges
No Country For Old Men
Contact
Gangs Of New York
Enchanted(in german)
Fearless
Across The Universe
300
P.S. I Love You
Stranger Than Fiction
The Boondock Saints
Its A Wonderful Life
Serendipity
The Butterfly Effect
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
I Heart Huckabees
Crash
The Saint
The Game
The Ghost and the Darkness
To End All Wars
The Island
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
Tim Burton Movies
M.Night Shyamalan Movies
Ron Howard Movies
John Cusack Movies...
stuff like that. . .
My motto is: Gimme something original, I might not love it but I will appreciate it.
Television:
24, Most Standup Comedy, South Park, Family Guy...
Books:
Animal Farm
1984
The Grapes Of Wrath
The Federalist Papers
Love In The Time Of Cholera
Farenheit 451
Watership Down
The Black Arrow
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci
How to Quit Church Without Quitting God
The Brothers Karamozov
The Bible :)
High Fidelity
And anything by authors like, Tolkien, Lawhead, Lewis, Jordan, Zender, Bradbury, Orwell and more...
Heroes:
My Grandfather
Anyone who would sacrifice their life and comfort for another.
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
- George Washington
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
- Gandhi
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
- Gandhi
"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."
- C.S.Lewis
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs—partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs…
There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
- Booker T. Washington
