Hmmmm, reading, writing, running, collecting music and music videos, collecting words, collecting quotations, collecting *good* poetry and artwork, surfing the Internet, politics, news, insomnia, procrastination, DVDs, learning HTML, punching and kicking my new athletic equipment, psychology, philosophy (especially of the Eastern variety), drinking, philosophical drinking, achieving self-aggrandizement through self-effacement ;-), playing with picture files occassionally, and other assorted fun.
I'd like to meet:
Not really trying to meet people through this thing. Just got it to keep up with what's going on with my friends.
However, for the random folks whom I've never met that'd like to chat it up with me, here's a suggestion: bring up a topic of conversation. I don't care what it is, though something I have listed as an area of interests would be a great place to start. Politics, music, religion (unless you're trying to convert me to something), a movie that we both list as favorites, a book you want to suggest because (based on my posted list) you think I might like it. Whatever. But just saying "hey, wanna chat sometime? I do NOT cyber" doesn't really give me any indication that we have anything to talk about. So, pick something. No offense, nothing personal, but otherwise ya ain't likely to get a response. K? Great. Glad we have that all clear now.
Furthermore, if 'you' are an ad campaign of any kind, I do NOT want to hear from you. Do not advertise to me. NO MATTER WHAT YOU'RE SELLING, NO MATTER HOW STRONGLY YOU FEEL I WOULD WANT IT, I PROMISE THAT I DON'T WANT IT. DO NOT SOLICIT TO ME ... EVER. IF YOU DO, THEN I WILL MAKE A MENTAL NOTE TO NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM YOUR COMPANY EVER IN THE FUTURE. If I want to buy something, I'll shop for it myself, either online or in a store. I do not want entities pretending friendship so that they can sell me something that I don't want. STOP IT.
Music:
A Perfect Circle, Aimee Mann, Aerosmith, Alanis Morissette, Alien Ant Farm, Ani DiFranco, Audioslave, Barenaked Ladies, Blur, BT, Cake, The Chemical Brothers, Cold Play, Counting Crows, Cowboy Mouth, The Crystal Method, Dashboard Confessional, Daft Punk, The Dandy Warhols, Death Cab for Cutie, Delirium, Dido, The Dresden Dolls, Disturbed, The Dust Brothers, Evanescence, Fiona Apple, Fleming & John, Foo Fighters, Frank Sinatra, Fuel, Garbage, Green Day, Guster, Hot Hot Heat, Incubus, Jann Arden, The Killers, Lifehouse, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, Massive Attack, Mono, Morcheeba, Muse, My Chemical Romance, No Doubt, Nirvana, Norah Jones, Our Lady Peace, Ours, Pearl Jam, Poe, Portishead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rockapella, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Shinedown, StainD, Sum 41, The Strokes, Thievery Corporation, Unified Theory, The Used, Weezer, The White Stripes ... and I'll put Tom Lehrer in here too, cuz he's awesome.
Movies:
American History X, Casshern, Chasing Amy, Chicago, Dead Poets Society, Death to Smoochy, Dogma, Down with Love, The Emperor's New Groove, Fight Club, Girl Interrupted, I Heart Huckabees, Interview with the Vampire, The Italian Job, Labyrinth, A League of Their Own, The Lord of the Rings (whole trilogy), Kill Bill, The Matrix (whole trilogy), Memento, Moulin Rouge, Office Space, Patch Adams, Pirates of the Carribean, The Phantom of the Opera, Resident Evil, The Ring, The Shawshank Redemption, Shrek, Toys, Troy, The Truman Show.
Television:
On air shows:
The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Drawn Together, Family Guy, Fullmetal Alchemist, Law & Order: SVU, Mind of Mencia, The West Wing, Will & Grace
Off air shows:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Daria, Futurama, Hellsing, MTV Celebrity Deathmatch
Books:
American Gods, Neil Gaiman; Children of the Alley, Naguib Mafouz; A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess; The Giver, Lois Lowry; God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe, Amir D. Aczel; Hamlet, Shakespeare; Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth About Reality, Brad Warner; Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams; Language in Thought & Action, S.I. Hayakawa; The Shining, Stephen King; Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind.
Hate-worthy books: A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (war parts = good, "romance" = vomit inducing); Lost in the Cosmos, Walker Percy (pretentious drivvel); Naked Buddhism, David Deida (soft, simplistic, pandering, crappy philosophy).
Heroes:
Do Integra from Hellsing and Beatrix from Kill Bill count? :-)
