writing, hard cider, national service, film, books, music, my ipod, anecdotes, deep conversation, traveling within the continental u.s. until i can afford to travel abroad, shaming my mother with my poor korean language skills, liberalism, hennes and mauritz, haagen dazs mango sorbet, the onion, gofugyourself.com, wearing shirts that make it look like i belong to a sports team, beaches (real ones, not the bette midler movie), my roommates, talkin' trash, making videos, reading about how whitey has been keeping me down, cooing at babies and puppies, and relating everything to a pop culture reference.
I'd like to meet:
old men posing as teenage girls, aspiring rappers/rockers/import models, someone who has used the phrase "i have so much love to give" and meant it, bad poets, AZNs, and future stalkers.
Music:
al green, stars, bjork, fiona apple, radiohead, portishead, jay-z, de la soul, kanye west, mos def/talib kweli/blackstar, beastie boys, marvin gaye, ryan adams, ray lamontagne, outkast, ghostface, wu-tang, kenneth kim...
Movies:
the royal tenenbaums, rushmore, magnolia, boogie nights, pulp fiction, city of god, todo sobre mi madre, habla con ella, y tu mama tambien, lost in translation, crouching tiger hidden dragon, the 25th hour, ali, do the right thing, 40-year-old virgin, etc...
Television:
the simpsons, degrassi, arrested development, lost, all inane yet addictive vh1 programming, late night with conan o'brien, america's next top model (yeah, i said it), weepy wb dramas (gilmore girls, everwood), family feud.
Books:
the night in question, nine stories, the catcher in the rye, me talk pretty one day, naked, the big book of racism, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, etc...
Heroes:
menne taliva'a, william jefferson clinton, quentin tarantino, paul thomas anderson, wes anderson, fiona apple, bjork, lucy liu, ang lee, barack obama, pedro almodovar, tobias wolff, david sedaris, j.d. salinger, and you.
