music, Atlanta, burlesque, travel, alcohol, drive ins, flirting, board games, movies, art, pinball, good rum (Mount Gay, Sailor Jerry, Don Q Gold, Ron del Barrilito), good bourbon(Maker's, Woodford Reserve), barbecue (pork), old cars, Italian food, expensive desserts, gelato
Dr. Girlfriend
People with open minds for just about any occasion.
Sense of humor required, creativity of any sort a plus.
Everything from hard/heavy (AC/DC, Motorhead) and strange energy (MC5, Immortal Lee County Killers) to soft/pretty (Neko Case, Hope for Agoldensummer), as well as local acts of most sorts.
I came to love music back in the 80's new wave era, but that flavor of retro has been done to death. Now when I want to look back it's to R&B and soul of the 60's (Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin.) And if I wanna shake my groove thang I have no interest in techno racket when there's perfectly danceable music made by actual human beings (60's and 70's funk!!!)
Random other thoughts: Dick Dale, The Hiss, Truckadelic, Jet By Day, Mudcat, Thee Crucials, Johnny Cash, The Forty Tives, Kingsized, Tongo Hiti, The Helgas, Seventeen Years, Kelly Hogan, Smoke and Opal Foxx Quartet, The Black Lips, Parliament/Funkadelic, Rock*A*Teens, Subsonics, Tiger! Tiger!, David Bowie, The Selmanaires, Alice Cooper, Anna Cramer, Frank Zappa, The Coathangers, just about anything on the Dap Tones label. The list goes on and on.
Anything that DOESN'T deal with day to day drama of real people. I've had enough of that in my life, thanks. When I want entertainment I want to escape reality, not be reminded of it.
Some of my favorites:
Fight Club
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Being John Malcovich
Brazil (and almost anything else by Terry Gilliam)
American Beauty
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Hammer horror classics
Sergio Leone westerns
and anything fun and stupid at Starlight Drive In.
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Battlestar Gallactica, Venture Bros., Acqua Teen Hunger Force, Cash Cab, Office (both BBC and NBC flavors), The Simpsons, Deadwood, The Sopranos, That 70's Show, Mythbusters, MXC, Wild Boys, and just about anything on the History Channel, PBS, Travel Channel, or Discovery Channel.
Mark Twain, National Geographic magazine, anything by Bill Bryson, Too Much Coffee Man, and lately anything to do with pirates. Yeah, it's embarassing, but I got into it before the fad and it's research for game I'm working on.
The lone Chinese guy who stood in front of that line of tanks trying to make their way into Tiananmen Square. Those weren't grocery bags he was holding, those were his titanic BALLS.