Hiking, reading, mountain biking, snowboarding, writing, watching movies, live music, arguing, playing with animals.
I'd like to meet:
Anyone who's up for adventure, who has a kind heart, who's real, and who doesn't like country music (OK, this may be changing as I'm exploring country music more...there's def. some good stuff!). Also must not wave meat in my face (I'm a vegetarian) but must be okay with me waving veggies in yours. And you must love animals, and not be afraid of the natural world.
Music:
Latest Faves: Diane Cluck, Sufjan Stevens, Regina Spektor, Camera Obscura, Brightback Morning Light, Joanna Newsome.Old-school reggae, my favorites being the Congos, Black Uhuru, Bob Marley, and Toots and the Maytals. Quirky/political folk music, like Ani DeFranco and Dar Williams, Joni Mitchell and Nellie McKay. Kick-ass women artists in general across the spectrum; Tori Amos (one of my goddesses), Sleater-Kinney, older L7, Bjork (another goddess)Belly, Cat Power.Some older hip hop like Tribe Called Quest, Snoop, Beasties, De La Soul, KRS-1, Arrested Development, and newer, including Talib Kweli, Michael Franti, Common, Eminem, and The Roots.Rock, or whatever it is; Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, Chevelle, White Stripes, Dave Matthews, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Jack Johnson, Old Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, G. Love, Soul Coughing, Audioslave (Chris Cornell! good lord), Smashing Pumpkins (esp. Gish and B-sides), some Pop music like Madonna andClassic Rock; Tom Petty, Led Zepplin, the Doors, Cream, Beatles, and Creedence.Electronic; Orb, Moby, Air, Single Gun Theory, hard house, house and NOT Happy Hardcore, some Jungle, Ambient (especially NPR's Sunday Night program, Hearts of Space)
Movies:
Dark Comedy; Witches of Eastwick, Beetlejuice, Heathers, The Big Lebowski, Life Aquatic, Ghostbusters, Three Burials of Melquiedes Estrada
Great 80's ; Breakfast Club, Neverending Story, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, St. Elmo's Fire Horror: Carrie, The Shining, Nightmare on Elm Street (the first four), Saw, The Ring, Hellraiser, Other: Life is Beautiful, The Corpse Bride, The Edukators, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Memento, Pi, Babel, Pan's Labyrinth,a Scanner Darkly, The Illusionist, In the Realms of the Unreal.
Television:
The Simpsons (it's practically a religion at this point) Law and Order, Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, Sex in the City, Seinfeld reruns, Oprah, Gilmore Girls, Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy (embarassingly)Bob Ross Painting Show on PBS. The Office (British version), Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wild Thornberrys.
Books:
Don't ask me to pick my favorite book, it would be like asking to pick a favorite child. The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Anne Tyler novels, anything by the Brontes or Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, George Eliot, Vonnegut and Oscar Wilde. Love Tom Wolfe, Tracy Chevalier, The Life of Pi, Anna Karenina, Ann Patchett, Fast Food Nation, Nickel and Dimed. Michael Pollan, Paul Theroux, Alice Sebold, John Irving and T.C. Boyle.
Heroes:
Wangari Maathai, my Grandmother, MLK Jr., Rachel Carson, those who challenge themselves and are not afraid to fail (because I'm freaking terrified of it!)
