Watering my plants, feeding my many cats, collecting stacks of old newspaper, avoiding the harsh daylight and the disapproving glares of others. Get it? I'm a hermit!
What I admire in a human being: (1) INTELLIGENCE, including the use of PROPER GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION, while still displaying a PLAYFULNESS WITH LANGUAGE. (2) OPEN-MINDEDNESS and a WILLINGNESS TO TRY ANYTHING TWICE, included, but not limited to, TAKING THE LIFE OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING, regardless of AGE or SOCIAL STATUS. (3) A SENSE OF HUMOR, with proficiencies in "DEADPAN WIT," "FUNNY HA-HA," "FUNNY MAKES-YOU-THINK," and "VISUAL GAGS/PROP HUMOR." HOMOSEXUALITY a plus, and bonus points for HAVING LOTS OF MONEY and AN AMBIVALENT ATTITUDE towards three of the following four: RELIGION, SCIENCE, ART AND POLITICS.
Broken Social Scene, Grizzly Bear, Sufjan Stevens, Spoon, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Decemberists, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Boards of Canada, The Go! Team, TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, Of Montreal, Modest Mouse, Beck, Bjork, Radiohead
E.T., Porno
Lolita, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Howards End, Cloud Atlas, The Road, The Fortress of Solitude, Berlin Stories, The Swimming Pool Library, Dorothy Parker stories, Lorrie Moore stories, David Sedaris stories, The Line of Beauty, The Passion, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, What is the What, Ghost World, Giovanni's Room, Love in the Time of Cholera, Encyclopedia Brown novels
Drink and Dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do)
--Dorothy Parker