Hanging with my pug. Challenging conversation. Writing about plucky heroines outsmarting evil multi-dimensional monsters. Smoking monkeys. The Starbucks outside of Shibuya Station in Tokyo.
Artisic, creative, intelligent, funny, empathic people who want to change the world one person at a time. Do you love movies? Is your TiVo as precious as a child? Can you recites the lyrics to Shaft in Chaucerian English?
Flaming Lips, New Pornographers, Mountain Goats, Bright Eyes, XTC, Wilco, William Shatner, The Who, White Stripes, Weezer, Verbow, They Might Be Giants, Supergrass, The Streets, Sufjan Stevens, Starssailor, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Paul Weller, Spoon, Soul Coughing, The Shins, She Wants Revenge (Tear You Apart), Art Brut (Good Weekend), The Ramones, Radiohead, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, The Clash, Queen, Pubic Enemy, Probot, Iron Maiden, Pixies, Ocean Colour Scene, My Morning Jacket, Muse, Modest Mouse, Manic Street Preachers, Kula Shaker, John Wesley Harding, Bob Dylan (old), Jets to Brazil, Jawbreaker, Harvey Danger, Green Day (American Idiot), Gorrilaz, Gomez, Gang of Four, The Futureheads, Franz Ferdinand, Fountains of Wayne, Foo Fighters, Fiona Apple, ELVIS COSTELLO, Eels, Doves, The Coral, The Descendants, The Decemberists, Cake, The Caesars, Buffalo Tom, Bogmen, Black Crowes, Big Star, Ben Folds, Replacements...whew!
Blade Runner, Aliens, Lawrence of Arabia, Powell/Pressburger anything, Sullivan's Travels, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Hong Kong crime flicks, Asian horror flicks, Fritz Lang (especially M and the Dr. Mabuse films), Nightmare on Elm Street, Brazil, 12 Monkey's, Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the list goes on and on.
24, The Shield, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Intervention, The First 48, The Amazing Race, Monster House, The Daily Show, Adult Swim.