Curating, assembling, cleaning (yes I'm OCD, ask my friends), driving (again, a control freak), postcards, galavanting, well placed/well timed quotes, irony, Contemporary Art, museums, foreign cinema, Rhythm Cafe, Buddah Bar, Paris, India, travel, climbing mountains, psuedo-intellectualizing, playing house, conversating, poker, monopoly, Scattagories, epiphanies, writing. Languages, dreaming, NETFLIX, Scrabble, Jumbles, CHAI, decaf anything. Not to mention the occasional fit of hysterical laughter with friends. I tend to be preoccupied with the number 23 and am overly interested in Greenville, SC. In truth, I despise overly noisy and smokey clubs, bars, or social settings.
I respect: motivation, adaptation, innovation, compassion, confidence, being real, multi-tasking, brilliance, neologism, benevolence, and in rare cases fuedalism.I mesh well with: People who think, the emotionally available, cliche quoters, scofflaws, superstitious superficial supernaturalists, closet optimists, people whose reason(s) escapes them. People who: quote obscure references in mixed company, use dead languages, perport things, have a strong work ethic, exclaim latin name of plants in passing, speak in idioms or rhyme, have excellent grammar or manners, love scientific/rational thought, or are masters of their own domain. Being an inventive cook is also a plus. People who make up words like strawfalactics, scooby dubious, and beardier are alright! Also super-villans are noteworthy and often spurious.
In random order: pandora.com, monkeyradio.org, radioFG.com, The Bird and the Bee, Indie-tronica, Bat For Lashes, Beirut, Peter Bjorn and John, Jens Lekman, Rilo Kiley, Hird, Bjork, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Portishead, down-beat, down-tempo, lounge, Jurassic 5, World Music, gypsy music, Nina Simone, KHALED, Ella Fitzgerald, Lata Mangeshkar, Mylo, Morimur, Dhizan & Kamen, Musafir, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Fiona Apple, Joni Mitchell, Sade, Kylie Minogue, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Marin Marais, Flaming Lips, Air, DJ Odi, Deee-lite, Tom Waits, Massive Attack, Tricky, LTJ Bukem, Miles Davis, Radiohead, NIN, Esthero, Soul Assasins, Rufus Wainwright, Leonard Cohen, Coldplay, French hip-hop, Hall & Oats, Ravi Shankar, DJ Shadow, Soulstice, Amel Larrieaux, OutKast, Wu Tang Clan, Missy Elliot, Enya, Enigma, Peter Gabrial, Cake, Depeche Mode, Ludakris, Dead Prez, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, blonde redhead, Autolux, Gift of Gab, MF Doom, Denali, Call & Response, Wyclef, John Legend, Common, The Postal Service, Murs, Frou Frou, Junior Boys, Daft Punk, The Shirelles
Dedication, Becket, Lion in Winter, Taal, The Player, The Fifth Element, House of Flying Daggers, Naked, Underground, Gosford Park, Hero, Ghost in the Shell, Sleeping Beauty, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Last of the Mohicans, Dead Again, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Splash, Husbands & Lovers, The Usual Suspects, Remains of the Day, Army of Darkness, Natural Born Killers, Bram Stoker's Dracula, V for Vendetta, Princess Bride, Amelie, Trading Places, Time Cop (best B movie ever), Lost Highway, Deconstructing Harry, Impromptu, Moonstruck, The Jerk (thanks to Tyler), Magnolia, Run Lola Run, Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, The English Patient, Spanish Prisoner, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, The Manchurian Candidate (original), Devdas, The Matrix, Being John Malkovich, Purple Rose of Cairo, I heart Huckabees, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Weird Science, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Amateur, No Such Thing, Love Me If You Dare, Cheungking Express, 2046, Taal, La Strada, V for Vendetta, Thumbsucker, Out of Africa, The Day the Earth Stood Still, My Man Godfrey, The Last Temptation of Christ, Bullets Over Broadway, Spaceballs, Smoke, 21 Grams, Death In Gaza, Walking and Talking, Gandhi, Melinda and Melinda, Kung Fu Hustle, The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Producers (the original), Annie Hall, The Jacket, George Cukor's "The Women", Bubbah Hotep, Off the Map, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Gandhi, Shop Girl, Pirates of the Carribean II.
I'm that person who is annoyed by the TVs in restaurants and am not shy about insisting they turn the volume down, if not off. I also hate commercials - I mute them. When I was a kid and TV was more appropriate: Reading Rainbow, The Smurfs, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, Dr. Who, Square One (remember MathNet?!), Animaniacs, The Simpsons, Deep Space 9, 123 Contact. However, I can definately tolerate the following if in passing: Law & Order: SVU, Lost, Family Guy, House, Life, Journeyman, Pushing Daisies, Battlestar Galactica. Oh, and static that preaches gospel and forces me to confront flesh eating demons... psych!
YES I AM still working on my own. Perfume, The Tipping Point, The World is Flat, Freakonomics, Kabir, Rumi, Kilgore Trout/Kurt Vonnegut (RIP), The Codex, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Heinlein, Douglas Adams, The List of 7, The Sparrow, Noam Chomsky, Art criticism, art mags, Ruth Jhabvala, Mistress of Spices (absolutely NOT the movie), Aleister Crowley, Iyanla Vanzant, Indian Love Poems, Griffin & Sabine series, Arthur Danto, Animal Speak.
Victimless criminals and tragic heroes: Amelia Earhart, John Galt, Trent Reznor, Anthony Johnson, Sha Rukh Khan, George Sands, Ludwig von Beethoven, Salvador Dali, Emma Thompson, Jhadzia Dax (I've gotten over being a dork), Arthur Conan Doyle, Sandy and Miriam Lerman, and Jack Handey