Writing, acting, art (mainly Impressionist), learning to play the cello, and political debate.
I'd like to meet:
Ayn Rand, David Mamet, Arnold Shwartzenegger, and this kid.
Music:
Modest Mouse, Ugly Cassanova, Requiem for a Dream soundtrack, Andrew Paul Woodworth, Johnny Cash, Andrew Heringer, Ben Folds, Dave Mathews, Counting Crows, Matchbox 20, Blues Traveler, Coldplay, Five For Fighting, Radiohead, Marcy Playground, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Van Morrison, John Mayer, Ryan Adams, Pinback...
Movies:
Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Eternal Sunshine, Boondock Saints, Crash, Narc, American Beauty, No Such Thing, American History X, Love Actually, Happenstance, Amelie, He loves me He loves me not, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Pianist, Life Aquatic, Lost in Translation, Adaptation, The Good Girl, Memento, The Closet, Return to Paradise, In America, Angelas Ashes, About Schmidt, Beautiful Girls, My Life Without Me, Sling Blade, Jerry Maguire, Weather Man, Magnolia, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Groomsmen...
Television:
I'd tell you the TV shows I like, but you'd never respect me professionally if I did.
Books:
Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Of Mice and Men, Catcher in the Rye, The Violent Bear It Away, Lie of the Mind, Glenngarry Glenn Ross, A Life in the Theater, Grapes of Wrath, True West, Oleanna, Sho Gun, True and False, Sense and Sensibility, and anything by Rohl Dahl...
Heroes:
Ayn Rand, Darren Aronofsky, Charlie Kaufman, Paul Haggis, David Mamet, Sam Shephard, Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Willem Dafoe, Sarah Polley, Audrey Tautou, Cate Blanchett, Shakespeare, Byron, John Steinbeck, JD Salinger, and my little brother for joining the Air Force...