Writing, reading, role-playing games (the kind with dice and character sheets, you perverts), watching movies, trying to remember all of the physics and calculus I used to know so well, more reading, and long, pointless conversations with interesting people.
I'd like to meet:
Skepchicks (critical thinking is sssssssexy!), the Buddha, The Little Engine That Could, Dashiell Hammett, critical thinkers in general, anyone who still dreams of working at the nuclear power plant until they develop super-powers, a cheap and competent psychiatrist, wanna-be writers and stand-up comics that are particularly weird (Emo Philips, you're not a "wanna-be," but you're certainly weird enough. Will you be my friend?), and friendly misanthropes like me.
Music:
Elvis Costello, The Kinks, The Clash, Bare Naked Ladies, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, They Might Be Giants, Was (not Was), Elizabeth Nicholson, "Weird" Al Yankovic, the Bloodhound Gang, the Dead Milkmen, Nick Cave, Drunken and rowdy people at St. Patrick's Day celebrations at Irish pubs, Avril Levigne (I know, it's sad to like faux-punk popsters barely out of their teens when you're my age, but, what the heck! She's got some talent, and might continue to develop into a real musician), more, more, and even more!
Movies:
Halloween, Animal House, A Fish Called Wanda, The Third Man, Apocalypse Now, Double Indemnity, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Thing (the original AND the remake), Fong Sai Yuk (a.k.a. The Legend), Taxi Driver, City of Lost Children, The Evil Dead, House of Games, Spider, anything that has Godzilla in it (even, in a weird way, that piece of crap starring Matthew Broderick), and dozens of movies my fingers are too tired to type the names of . . .
Television:
What's "television?" OK, really, if there's one TV show I could recommend that you probably haven't seen, it's a BBC series from the late 80's well into the late 90's entitled "Red Dwarf". It's psychotic and weird. Gotta love it!
Books:
In the Country of Last Things (Paul Auster); A Scanner Darkly (Phillip K. Dick); The Continental Op (Dashiell Hammett); Farewell, My Lovely (Raymond Chandler); The Demon-Haunted World (Carl Sagan); Feet of Clay (Terry Pratchett); Gun, With Occasional Music (Jonathan Lethem); Brain Droppings (George Carlin); Choke (Chuck Palahniuk); Many, many more . . .
Heroes:
My grandfather Roy, who once said to me, "You ask a lot of questions, kid. Don't ever stop."
