writing, reading, pro-choice, music of all shapes and sizes, gin and tonics, being a cheap date, being "on", putting myself in awkward situations and figuring out why they make me squirm, intellect, being and becoming, being in solitude and socializing, being a child and an adult, finding a nice space between passion and comfort, finding the differences and similarities in people, finding a "take-away" from every person, being in love
Those who can give me a real, deep down in the stomach laugh. Snarky optimists. Intuitive observers of other people. Readers. People who have something in their life that causes them to get excited when they talk about it. People who want to go to concerts with me. Synesthetists. A charismatic bastard with a sordid past. Those that cause poetic memory.
I love me some music. Best discussed drunk and with an iPod or my external hard drive or rekkids if you got 'em
Annie Hall, Secretary, A River Runs Through It, Y Tu Mama Tambien, All the Real Girls, Royal Tenenbaums, Big Fish, Jesus' Son
Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, House, Law and Order
My "to read" list gets longer before it gets shorter and my bookshelves are sagging...Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Of Love and Other Demons, Love in the Time of Cholera), Eduardo Galeano, Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, short stories of Andre Dubus, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois, Empire Falls by Richard Russo, JD Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahniuk, Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Night by Elie Wiesel, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Awakening by Kate Chopin...You get the idea...
I am more interested in heroic actions rather than one or two people encompassing what a hero should be.