rowing on the Willamette, sailing on the Willamette, punting on the Cam, fingernails that shine like justice, concrete details, loving people for themselves, honesty and directness, personal propriety, french press coffee, tea breaks, thriftstore mug collecting, being courteous and polite, understanding other perspectives, Egalitarianism,seeing the best in people, eating for health,, eating for pleasure, making investigative social documentaries, hang-gliding, hiking, sailing, rowing, running, bicycling, creating new things, Western Europe, England, Portland, Tacoma, Ireland, France, traveling, living in places other than America, reading, optimistic first impressions, singing as loudly and highly as possible, knowing the difference between immaturity and silliness, satire, sarcasm and cynicism, writing, observing people's habits, appreciating things for exactly what they are and not comparing them with others, pablo neruda, genuine emotion, considering agape, understanding from all perspectives, my Mr. Darcy, people that don't feel the need to compete, the ocean, sun, moon and stars, sunshine, rain, simultaneous sunshine and rain, not complaining about the weather, cognitive dissonance when aligned with reality, not skirting the issue or frolicking around the point, finding the comedy in every situation, climbing to the top of the narrows bridge, seeking truth, progression, socio-liberal-global feminism,, kate schoefsky, kierkegaard, circles, personal homages, personal holidays, personal legends
I'd like to meet:
(More) worthy reciprocators.
Music:
Morrissey and the Smiths, Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, The Beatles, J.S. Bach, Spoon, Damien Jurado, Pavement, the Shins, Viva Voce, Lhasa De Sela, Mugison, Jenny Lewis, Joanna Newsom, Colin Meloy, the Flaming Lips, Dismemberment Plan, Death Cab for Cutie, Believing in June, Crosstide, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Zombies, Simon and Garfunkel, T-Rex, Oasis, the Dingees, the Thrills, Pedro the Lion, Flying or Falling, Eyes of Autumn, the Divorce, the Pixies, REM, Johnny Cash, Beach Boys, Tears for Fears, Belle and Sebastian, Iron and Wine, Her Majesty's Dogman, Coldplay, the Collection, Modern English, Radiohead, the Velvet Underground, Cheap Trick, Donovan, Catpower, Emery, Jawbreaker, Fig Dish, Trail of the Dead, Thee Pirates, Sarah Vaughan, Lauryn Hill, Louie Armstrong, Nat King and Natalie Cole, the Cloves, the Fugees, Roberta Flack, Tracy Chapman, KEXP
Movies:
Coffee and Cigarettes, 28 Days Later, Rushmore, North by Northwest, Hitchcock flicks, Amelie, Memento, Pan's Labyrinth, American History X, Say Anything, Delicatessen, Being John Malkovich, Harold and Maude, Love Actually, West Side Story, Bugsy Malone, O Brother Where Art Thou, Walk the Line, This Is England, Almost Famous, Human Remains, Story of Ricky, Intermission, Adaptation, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Buffalo Soldiers, Pride and Prejudice (A&E), Highway*, Prefontaine*, Ten Things I Hate About You*, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, The Conversation, The Jacket, documentaries *I don't actually love the asterisked movies, I just happen to be an extra in them.
Television:
I don't associate with that gimcrack.
Books:
Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Food Revolution, The Little Prince, my pocket Roget's, Oxford-English Dictionary, Pern, the Forgotten Door, Ender's Game, A People's History of the United States, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, Cosmicomics and probably anything else by Italo Calvino, the Beauty Myth, Winter of Fire, the Crystal Cave, LOTR, Shel Silverstein, Dahl, Huxley, Vonnegut, Harry Potter (shamefully), and most of all shamelessly scathing nonfiction
Heroes:
Kathleen and John Bonner, Caitlin Keller.
