Baseball (Mariners, Yankees when they lose), losing money at cards, beer (just now getting a sense of what's available in New England- suggestions?) and whiskey (Powers, Fighting Cock), travel, philosophy and television, math, reading science fiction and occasionally something more 'respectable,' plus some other nerdy stuff. Beers and nostalgia with college/H.S. buddies when I'm home.
Now doing my best to look cool, all the time. Success, so far, has been limited.
Anytime: Always interested in re-meeting people I've lost touch with. I'm beginning to think that's the best use for this whole myspace thing, really. But send me a real message with friend request, and I promise I'll do the same!
How spiffy is last.fm? I'll show, not tell:
Songs Just Now:
Artists Lately:
Artists Generally:
Casino, Goodfellas, anything by Kevin Smith, Bull Durham, Changing Lanes, anything with meteors. Office Space. Various Ferell/Stiller/Vaughn/Wilson comedires,
Lost in Translation, plus Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite, the strip club scene in Closer (and not for lascivious reasons, I swear).Anything by Wes Anderson, but especially Tannenbaums and Aquatic
Some sitcoms (scrubs, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, if that's a sitcom). Sopranos, OC, Conan, Daily Show, Chapelle, Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy. Entourage, and, for a final geeky touch on the list, the new Battlestar Galactica (dark, gritty sci-fi... is this really on TV?). Deadwood.
Good, thoughtful science fiction: Kim Stanley Robinson 'Three Californias', U Leguin "The Dispossessed" and that other one, about hermaphrodites (Can't remember the title). Tolkien, V Vinge "A Fire upon the Deep," lots of others. Oscar Wilde.Also some Philip Roth, Neil Gaiman.Classics: Vonnegut, Hemingway, Hunter S, would like to read more Faulkner and Pynchon.Also lots of academic-type stuff, but I have to read that, so I won't count it here.