Anthropology, archaeology, bike riding, hockey (Sabres) people watching, frolicking outside, photography, art, music, playing board games, good conversation, sneakers, forensic science, reading, Homestar Runner, Teen Girl Squad!, laughing, history, driving around aimlessly, screaming, playing pool, spontaneous excursions with friends, road trips, randomly complimenting people on the street just to see their reactions, crossword puzzles, analytical thought, writing...
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I'd like to meet:
Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Alas, they are both long gone from this level of existence.
Anyone who love Frostys and string cheese as much as I do. Bike riding, intelligent conversations, and frolicking outdoors are definite pluses, as well.
Music:
My musical tastes are extremely eclectic. I grew up on old MGM musicals, so I am a huge fan of Gershwin, Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and the like. I played clarinet for eight years, so I love oldschool ragtime a la Benny Goodman, as well as all the classics, especially Mozart, Chopin, Dvorak, etc. I also love olschool emo/screamo such as In Loving Memory, Inkwell, Portrait, etc. Then there's Constellation Records- Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hanged Up, etc. Mainly I just try to stay away from the radio and most of the mainstream cliched crap. Yeah, so eclectic is definitely the key word here, as I stated.
That said, the top seven bands at the moment (in no partilcular order):
• Raein
• Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• Isis
• Daitro
• Metric
• Killsadie
Oh yeah, and I am trying to bring back oldschool early '90's post emo indie bands a la Crank Records. Remember Boys Life, The Hal al Shedad, and Christie Front Drive...? Who's with me on this?!
Movies:
• 28 Days Later
• Donnie Darko
• Amelie
• Blazing Saddles
• The Mosquito Cost
• Art School Confidential
• Me and You and Everyone We Know
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Lost in Translation
• I Heart Huckabees
• The Good Girl
• Royal Tennenbaums
• Happiness
• Igby Goes Down
• Cecil B. Demented
• Clay Pigeons
• Happy Endings
• Dummy
• Playing by Heart
• I Heart Huckabees
• Ghost World
• Big Fish
• An American in Paris
• City of the Lost Children
• Moulin Rouge
• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
• Requiem for a Dream
• Fight Club
• It's Always Fair Weather
• Trainspotting
• Paint Your Wagon
• Buffalo '66
• Million Dollar Hotel
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• Don't Be a Menace in South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
...and numerous others.
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Television:
I try not to watch too much of it; it has that whole brain-rotting aspect.
That said, I have always been partial to oldschool sitcoms, such as: Mork & Mindy, The Monkees, Get Smart, Green Acres, Family Ties, Star Trek, Alf, Dick Van Dyke, and WKRP in Cincinnati. In more recent times, I love anything by Joss Whedon, most things by the Wayans brothers, Heroes, Nip/Tuck, Boston Legal, CSI, Scrubs, Arrested Development (damn them for canceling it!) Dead Like Me, Simpsons, Family Guy, and a large portion of the Adult Swim toons. Oh yeah, and anything pertaining to forensic science.
Books:
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Brave New World
• Into the Wild
• Beauty
• Tropic of Night
• The Blood Countess
• Half Asleep in Frog Pajamass
• Cry to Heaven
• Witches Abroad
• About a Boy
• Dead Men Do Tell Tales
• The Martian Chronicals
• Kiln People
• Cat's Cradle
• Lilith's Brood
• Invisible Monsters
• Beggars in Spain
Basically any sci fi or historical fiction; anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Sheri Tepper, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, Terri Pratchet, Philip K. Dick, David Brin, Kurt Vonnegut, Nancy Kress, Carl Hiaasen, Tom Robbins, Anne Tyler... Reading is definitely one of my favorite past times.
Heroes:
My mom.
Not pictured: my father, may he rest in peace. On all accounts a man too amazing for this world. I love and miss you, dad.
