Art,Music, Conor O'berst(mild obsession,i will meet him one day)
Painting, making graphic art, Jewelry-making,Crochet, people's stories,Vegetarias(but not ONLY vegetables),yoga, "DaNature",Biking,Reading,Graphic Novels, Indie movies,Teaching, Learning,Hanging out with peeps who like to wreak havoc, kitchy kids'Crap(especially when they've made it)
I'd like to meet:
Artists, Musicians, philanthropists, role models (even if you don't think of yourself as one) educators, students(we are all still learning), Bohemians, demonstrators, dropouts, hippies, iconoclasts, mavericks, non-conformists, peaceniks, protestors, daredevils and jugglers of the insanity in this world(so you can teach me how)
Music:
Gogol BOrdello
BRIGHT EYES,Desaparecidos,The Clash,The Smiths,Postal Service, Ryan Adams,Elefant, Snow Patrol,Deathcab,The Specials, UNKLE, Aphex Twin, Cocteau Twins,ElliotSmith, Sparklehorse,Band of Horses, Cafe Tacuba, Julieta Venegas, Weezer, Radiohead, Rage, Pete Yorn, Zap Mama, Siouxie,Morrissey,GobettyGo, Siete Gatos Negros, Rose's pawn shop, Nathan Nice, The Elevaters
& MANY MORE!
Movies:
ElSanto-Movies, Gary Oldman movies, Spaceballs, Princess Bride, Amelie, High Fidelity, Trainspotting, Everything is Illuminated, Big Fish, Monsters Inc, Shrek 1&2, Videodrome, Brazil, Open Your Eyes, Pedro Almodovar Flix, The Crow, Donnie Darko,LaFemmeNikita, The Proffessional, Blade Runner, AmericanPsycho, LOTR trilogy,Memento, Magnolia, PI, Whale Rider, Matrix I, waking Life,The Royal Tannenbaums, Life Aquatic, Rushmore, I
You are Trish! From SLC Punk
Television:
Not much...just the old stand-by's--Gilmore Girls, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Ghost Hunters, Robot Chicken,CARTOONS(yes i still watch 'em)Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Pucca, Xiaolin Showdown, Mucha Lucha, Johnny Quest
Books:
ANYTHING ALICE WALKER, Shel Silverstein, Garcia Marquez, Ana Castillo,Che's Motorcycle Diaries, Frida's Kahlo's Animated Journal, Animal Farm,1984, House of the Spirits, This Brigde Called my Back, Ishmael, My Ishmael, Story of B, Farenheit 451, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Love Medicine, Lolita, Anne Rice, Jane Austen, Camus, Love and Rockets(graphic novels), Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix,many more...Ask!
Heroes:
-------------------Anyone Self-less enough to work for those whose voices aren't heard-------------
Sor Juana de Inez, Siqueiros, Fridah Kahlo, Che Guevara,Ghandi, Cesar Chavez,
Einstein(anyone else that made it to the apple ads).......OH! and that guy that painted with his left-foot...in that movie...i can't remember the name....
ALSO--Anyone who will make a complete fool of themselves to make children happy!!