adventure, Al Franken, Arabic, art, Austin City Limits, cameras, cats, chess, chocolate, choice, cinema, cinematography, classical music, comedy, dancing, David Sedaris, epic films, Erik Satie, fashion photography, film, film history, film noir, filmmakers, France, francophiles, French, good friends, good hygiene, independent film, indoor rock climbing, KERA, Khalil Gibran, kittens, laughing, Lawrence of Arabia, Led Zeppelin, liberalism, liberals, massage, Mozart, NPR, National Public Radio, open-mindedness, Palestine, Palestinians, passion, Paulaner Salvatore Dopplebock, PBS, peace, photography, Pilates, political satire, reading, rock music, Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio, Sarah Vowell, Scotch, tattoos, Tchaikovsky, travel, vodka, Wagner, water, women's rights, writing.
I'd like to meet:
Ingenuous people...as opposed to DISingenuous people.
Music:
Led Zeppelin, CCR, David Bowie, Cream, The Who, The Doors, Air, Erik Satie, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mozart, Chopin, The Velvet Underground, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Edith Piaf, Elliott Smith, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Death in Vegas, Depeche Mode, Beastie Boys, Fiona Apple, Bjork, They Might Be Giants, Spiritualized, The Chemical Brothers, NIN, The Verve, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Queen, Billie Holiday, Ben Harper, Rufus Wainwright, Simon & Garfunkel, The Cure, Tool, Radiohead, Bill Withers, The Beachboys, The White Stripes, Coldplay, Jeff Buckley, etc.
Movies:
Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Bridge on the River Kwai, Oliver!, Romeo and Juliet (The 1968 Zeffirelli version), Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, There Will Be Blood, Into The Wild, Splendor in the Grass, Gunfight at the OK Corral, The Magnificent Seven, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Dirty Dozen, Escape from Alcatraz, Birdman of Alcatraz, The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Requiem for a Dream, The Godfather and The Godfather 2, the original Star Wars trilogy, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sex and Lucia, Hotel Rwanda, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Gigi, Cool Hand Luke, My Fair Lady, Cleopatra, A Streetcar Named Desire, Waterloo Bridge, On the Waterfront, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, It's a Wonderful Life, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Graduate, Love Story, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Thin Red Line, The Princess Bride, This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Airplane and many, many others!
Television:
The Office (both versions, but especially the British one), Extras, Sex in the City, M*A*S*H, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ali G, The Chappelle Show, South Park, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Scrubs, Deadwood, Arrested Development
While much of what is on TV is putrescent refuse, I don't believe that all of television is inherently worthless. It can be quite an effective way of disseminating information while offering fairly inexpensive entertainment. People who poo-poo all television are just being snobs.
Books:
The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Prophet, Angels & Demons, The DaVinci Code, Heart of Darkness, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, Why Not Me?, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, America (by Jon Stewart and co.), Lord of the Flies, On The Road, Barrel Fever, The Partly Cloudy Patriot.
Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Khalil Gibran, Franz Kafka, Al Franken, Sarah Vowell, David Sedaris, Mitch Albom.
Heroes:
My heroes are those who aren't afraid to work hard to make their dreams and passions live.
