Reading, the Arts (museums, symphonies, jazz, opera etc.) educated discourse, my bicycles (road and mtb), running, working out, my motorcycle, speech and debate competition, music (I was a drummer/percussionist-my first major, long long ago, and have also made attempts at being a cellist, violinist, pianist, and guitarist, all in vain) I love movies (indie/ as well as popcorn). Dark gothic art. I'm sure there is more. I am just not thinking about it at the moment. ** Update** Rockclimbing has been added to the list!!! LOVE IT!!!
FIRST: If you are thinking about contacting me because you want to just hook up and are not interested in anything else, DON'T BOTHER. This goes for people who may even just want to think about hooking up. SECOND: If you are younger than 21, and I have not had some sort of previous contact with you either through work or school, I will not approve a friend request. (the exceptions are you're in forensics, road bike racing, or attend the one of the Claremont Colleges) I am not going to add people just for the sake of having a large group of "friends". If I have not met you in some way before, or we do not have a mutual friend in common, DO NOT REQUEST AN ADD, especially if you have nothing of true substance about yourself on your profile. That being said, I am looking for people who are tired of listening to narrow-minded uninformed people rattle off what everyone around them is saying. I'm impressed by people who think on their own, even if it is contrary to my own beliefs. As long as you have done the research to back up your thoughts and beliefs, I can respect that. Otherwise, if you are just spouting off what "joe blow" down the street or in the next cube is ranting about....please put a cork in it. My reading habits tend to lean toward social/political/psychological non-fiction. So I guess people who share the same interests are who I am looking for.
Very eclectic...but mostly stuff like Angels and Airwaves, Radiohead, Keane, Ani, Tori, Howie Day, Butterfly Boucher, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis, Madonna, Johnny Cash, Evanesence, Bush, old No Doubt, Nine Inch Nails, Live, Bjork, Linkin Park. I LOVE soundtrack music...Kill Bill Vol. 1 is a fave, as well as Pieces of April. I also like sappy love songs and stuff from the 70's & 80's. *Jazz (love me some Ella!),opera (Puccini), and classical (I love the darker sounding pieces, Shostakovich no.5) are also in my cd/iPod collection as well. Of course, spending 13 years in Dallas got me in touch with my "country" side as well. So there is a LITTLE of that in the mix too. I like to work out to stuff like Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Portishead...as well as more alternative high energy stuff. I could live without the television, but don't take away my music.
I like all kinds of movies...Shopgirl, Good Night and Good Luck, Crash, Born into Brothels, Moulin Rouge, Gone With the Wind, Pieces of April, Love Actually, Goonies, the Wallace and Grommit movies, We Don't Live Here Anymore, Dogma, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Station Agent, the Virgin Suicides, and Closer are favorites. Regarding Star Wars...films III-VI were my favorites. God, I hate 1&2 even though I love Natalie Portman. On that note, I also love Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, and Naomi Watts. For fun, I like vampire movies, but I don't have any favorites. (Vampires are just hot! Kate B. in Underworld! Underworld 2 sucked though.) Of the popcorn variety, I like thrillers, and the movies that are so dumb/funny they make me snort laughing.
I like the educational stuff. My addictions, however, are the L Word, Gray's Anatomy, Weeds, and The Office.
Currently reading Sleeping with the Devil by ex CIA op Robert Baer, and Leap of Faith by Queen Noor. Also, I want to finish the 9/11 Commission Report which was a Valentines Day present from my girl a year or so ago, not romantic to most but it was to me! (yes, I'm a geek, or so I have been told) Another book I consider a fun read, that I need to finish once summer rolls around is an analysis of the Bill of Rights. (yes, I said fun.) My favorite fiction books are Lolita, Farenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, Brave New World, Count of Monte Cristo, various Anne Rice novels, David Sedaris' work, and the Romona Quimby and Judy Bloom books from my childhood. What I mostly read, for fun, is non-fiction, a lot of politics, social issues, etc. No favorites there. I've recently discovered that I enjoy books written by African American female writers like Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurtston, and Toni Morrison.
Margaret Cho for her activism and refusal to fit into the box of what an Asian woman should be and Angelina Jolie, A sexy, edgy, humanitarian mother who loves good sex (Cause we all know, the sex REALLY does matter. You're kidding youself if you say it doesn't).