Socialism; European football; subsidised housing and healthcare; free public parking and free education; bars; travel; women (not necessarily in that order).
Curious people with a strong conviction that working to lessen the evil of poverty should be a national and personal priority.
One word: Rihanna.
One person who, when I tell them I advocate for workers organising, doesn't say "But unions are corrupt!" 'Cause, you know, big corporations are so HONEST and would NEVER cheat, lie, or try to grind our bones to bake their bread. Are you out there, person-as-dumb-as-I-am?
But most of all, if you'd like to buy me a drink, then I'd like to meet you, too, you cheeky little bastard.
(This profile updated using Laura's youroldprofilewasdepressing.com's editor.)
Music Video: PUSH THE BUTTON (by Sugababes)
Beyonce who? It's all about Keisha Buchanan!Troy Andrews; Kermit Ruffins; Louis Armstrong; Soul Rebels; Shannon Powell; Steel Pulse; The Clash; Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros; Aswad; Crowded House; Squeeze; The Pogues; Van Morrison; The Waterboys; Ozomatli; Karen Mok; Sugababes; Shonen Knife; Stiff Little Fingers; Dead Kennedys; Teenage Fanclub; Frank Sinatra; Dean Martin; Toots and the Maytals; Modest Mouse; The Sundays; and my future ex-wife, Rihanna.
Metropolitan; Neighbors; Barcelona; Kicking and Screaming (not the Will Ferrell one); Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Josie & The Pussycats; Drumline; The Commitments; Drugstore Cowboy; Glengarry Glen Ross; American Splendour; Chungking Express; Fallen Angels; The Great Escape; Tommy Boy; Gladiator; Fever Pitch (the original, not the remake); 24 Hour Party People; Bend It Like Beckham; Fight Club; The Virgin Suicides; Lost in Translation; Rude Boy; Days of Being Wild; Irma Vep; Last Tango in Paris; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Lawrence of Arabia; Trees Lounge; Office Space; Henry V; Dead Poets Society; Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion; The Big Lebowski; Matewan; Eight Men Out; The Replacement Killers; Thunder Road; Casablanca; Duck Soup; Horse Feathers; Animal Crackers; School of Rock; Bottle Rocket; Rushmore; The Girl Next Door; Bob Roberts; Election; Chasing Liberty
Also I like to watch movies starring Hillary Duff with the sound off.
Deadwood; Heroes; Lost; No Reservations; shows where Mexicans jump around; shows where monkeys throw things at people or other animals; shows where women dress in snappy outfits; shows where Indian people haggle in open-air markets
Emma Who Saved My Life; Et Tu, Babe?; The Tetherballs of Bougainville; 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea; Origins of the New South; Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution; Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim; In a Sunburned Country; A Walk in the Woods; The IRA; London; Wild Swans; King Leopold's Ghost; A Nervous Splendour; Guns, Germs, and Steel
Eugene V. Debs; Leon Czolgosz; Ian Wright; John Sayles; Antonio Gramsci; Lucy Parsons; Mother Jones; Ernesto Guevara; Jose Marti; Paul Wellstone; My Dad; Franklin Roosevelt; Julius Nyerere; The Marx Brothers; Jack Leaman; Henry Aaron