I am to ideas as racoons are to shiny objects.
*blink-blink*
Only I don't wash them first. *smirk*
I'd like to meet:
Idealized(of course):
  I've realized that the book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" has all of the qualities I'm really looking for in a friend, or companion, or anything. Stay with me, it turns out to be quite apt.
  Gently sarcastic, witty, deep but not pretentious, literate, clever,... sort of clueless, but wanting to see things in the best possible light, and, in the end, both satisfied with and critical of the world as a whole. In that light, see below.
* Intelligentsia, seekers, bookworms, wallflowers and expressives.
* Literate explorers, both metaphoric and actual.
* Persons of great sagacity, wonder and gallantry.
* People with whom to play scrabble, make art, write music, and prattle.
* Coquettish aspirants with a dash of anachronism about their person.
* Cognizant do-rights simmering with rakish charm.
* People who are beautiful because they are somebody,
  not somebody because they are beautiful.
* People with everything to offer and nothing to prove.
* Elizabeth Bennett, Rose Tyler, Kari Byron, Kate Winslet, Lisa Loeb, Emile DeQuenne
* The Doctor, Col. Brandon, Jules Verne, Aristotle, Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman
* Ahab before Moby, Victor before the Monster, Willy before Slugworth.
Music:
Let us simply say, if it moves, evokes, subsumes, impassions or entices I probably like it.
Then again, I like ABBA... **shrug**
10 songs for the sake of conversation:
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Beloved - VNV Nation
Love's Recovery - Indigo Girls
Feelin' Good - Michael Buble' ver.
Life in a Northern Town - Dream Academy
Spirit - Dead Can Dance
Anhiliate, Destroy - Rotersand
We Belong - Pat Benatar
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
Muppet Movie sdtk.
Movies:
see: music
10 again:
Willy Wonka (Wilder ver.)
Pride and Prejudice (A&E)
Hudson Hawk
Shoot 'Em Up
Blade Runner
10 Things I Hate About You
Enemy Mine
The Philadelphia Story
What Dreams May Come
The Quiet Man
Television:
Dr. Who
Firefly
Heroes
Mythbusters
The Colbert Report
Top Gear
M*A*S*H
Band of Brothers
Discovery
A&E
BBC America
Sci-fi
decorating programs
cooking competitions
and...*hangs head*
American Idol.
*sigh*
Books:
Yes, please.
Constant companions include, but not limited to:
* Jane Austen
* Harlan Ellison
* Milorad Pavic
* Lyall Watson
* Roald Dahl
* Mark Twain
* Christopher Moore
* R. Scott Bakker
* George R.R. Martin
* J.R.R. Tolkien
* Shakespeare
* various mags and rags.
* sci-fi, mythology and history.
* mysticism, witticisms and science.
Heroes:
Fitzwilliam Darcy
Col. Brandon
Willy Wonka
Atticus Finch
Cyrano DeBergerac
