MUSIC, travel (Chiang Mai is my fave city so far...), writing, indie movies, bad TV, good conversation, animals (dogs, cats, goats, elephants, and rodents of usual size), tattoos, "getting the husky", running, bellydancing is fun, being in and around the water, amateur manatee research...My del.icio.us links page (now updated on a semi-regular basis) is: here
I'd like to meet:
Anyone interesting, zany (but sane in the most important ways!), kind, open, fun, introspective and real.
And this baby gorilla because he's got enviably cool hair...
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Music:
Home, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, the Jayhawks, The Afghan Whigs, Archers of Loaf, Old Bowie, Mott the Hoople/Ian Hunter, Roxy Music, Catherine Wheel, The Pixies/Frank Black, Two Gallants, the Velvet Underground, The Boomtown Rats, Crime and the City Solution, Soul Coughing/Mike Doughty, The Tindersticks, Fugazi/The Evens, Tori Amos, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mr. Bungle, The Orb, Cat Stevens, Dismemberment Plan, Chemical Brothers, Radiohead, For Squirrels, New Order, Death Cab for Cutie, Pinback, Postal Service, Nick Cave on Bad Weed, Blur, PJ Harvey, Counting Crows, The The, Mates of State, The Dirty Three, Magnolia Electric Co., T. Rex, the Who, some electronica, some metal and a lot in between (many, many others).I really don't like: Creed. Silverchair (possibly the worst band of all time--and yes, that includes Molly Hatchett), "Werewolves of London", Any version of "Drift Away" is crap, pop country, elevator jazz, the Greatful Dead (though Phish is okay in small doses)...
Movies:
Harold and Maude, Adaptation, Raising Arizona, I Heart Huckabees, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Bubble Boy,Spinal Tap, Clueless, Brokeback Mountain, Ghost World, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Borat, What the Bleep do We Know (even though I know it is "psuedoscience" :) ), The 40 Year Old Virgin, Being John Malkovich, Baraka, Dogville, City of Lost Children, Memento, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, Hot Fuzz, Ratatouille, King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, Teeth.
Television:
Don't watch too much but when I do: Cartoons: Simpsons, Adult Swim (Aqua Teen and Home Movies are my fave). The Daily Show/Colbert Report, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared reruns (thanks to Netflix), Scrubs, Or the Discover Health Channel. 187-Pound Tumor Removal? I know what I'm watching tonight...
Books:
John Irving--"Son of the Circus" and "Hotel New Hampshire" Saul Bellow --"Henderson the Rain King", Milan Kundera-- "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Michael Pollan -- "The Botany of Desire.", Leonard Cohen--"Stranger Music", Edna St. Vincient Millay poems, Anything by David Sedaris, especially "Barrell Fever" and "Me Talk Pretty One Day."--made me laugh my ASS off...
Two recent books that I HIGHLY recommend are "Spook" by Mary Roach and "Animals in Translation" by Temple Grandin. Also, for fiction stuff "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire was very excellent, much more interesting than the musical (which was only okay)
Current reading: "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman
Heroes:
Jim, the chain-smoking philosopher, and Greg Hulse who the world lost way too soon...And Buckminster Fuller.
