Reading, Computers, Arts, Dancing, a fine bottle of wine (not rose, doesn't count), Hiking, Juggling, Swimming, Rock Climbing, Biking, (would say running, but my knee isn't what it used to be), Programming, Go (like Chess, but not, and a lot older and easier, but not), Music (huge audiophile), patterns in wood and cracks in the concrete, Knots, Sociology and Politics, insightful and purposeful debate and discussion, John Galt, people in large groups, Foreign Culture, Language, Origami, really good beats and good poetry and lyrics, Sushi (and all the things that go along with it!), good food and great company, and more and more and more...so it goes. :-)
I'd like to meet:
Just about anybody and everybody. If you've got something to offer, or you got something you need, just say it. No games.There are some requirements for continued communication. While failure to adhere to these requirements will not automatically result in the inability to be friends (or just decent, polite, people), they could be considered grounds for avoidence.
Your attitude must have the ability to swim in the deep end of the pool. Nothing wrong with playing in the kiddie pool, but it's good to just dive deep now and again. Healthy for the lungs. (no peeing either please).
Still water runs deep, but it breeds mosquitos, so none of that here please.
The only assholes we allow are those of the highest integrity and moral fiber. The three of you all know what I'm talking about.
You can be a republican, but you better have a good damned reason and the ability to back it up without resorting to any of the primary flaws of argumentation (rhetoric, wild speculation, irrelevence, nanny-nanny-boo-boo).
You can also be from Texas, but being from Texas does not mean you get to simply forgo being a decent human being.
And if you've read this far, I hope you've got a sense of humour too! Not many out there I don't care for. I like to have fun, I like to goof around, and I love to just kick back now and again with a good time. If you're into that, or even other things, drop a line and we'll chat.
Music:
Creeper Lagoon, Luna, Saul Williams, Ani Defranco, NIN, Tori Amos, Coyote Shivers, Nick Drake, Postal Service, Elliot Smith, Badly Drawn Boy, The Cure, Bent, TelepopMusik, Sigur Ros, Sunny Day Real Estate, Stretch Princess, Tin Star, Luna, Beth Orton, Pink Floyd, The Format, Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World, the Decemberists, the Eels, Sage Francis, Sparklehorse, Guster, Velocity Girl, Deftones, The Verve, Bent, Underworld, The Verve Pipe, Ben Folds Five, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Bobby Darrin, (do I still have more space?), Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, James Taylor, Fiona Apple, Lou Rawls, Hum, Hope, The Hope Blister, Povi, Puya, Spacehog, Indigo Swing, Johnny Boyd, Sting, Pavement, Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, Pulp, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Rancid, Scott Weiland (or STP, pre 4), Weezer, Blur, Radiohead, XTC, and it just keeps on going...
Movies:
Vanilla Sky, Secret of Nymh, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, City of Lost Children, Tron, Chasing Amy, Rules of Attraction, Fight Club, Labrynth, Better off Dead, Neon Genesis, Akira, About a Boy, Princess Bride, Wonderful Days, Fifth Element, Croupier, Spiderman, Boondock Saints, Requiem for a Dream, Tron, Dark Crystal, Moulin Rogue, Shallow Grave, Jacob Two Two, Until the End of the World, Zatoichi, Brother, Kikujiro, Down with Love, Big Fish and more and more....
Television:
24, Doctor Who, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, BattleStar Galactica, Carnivale. I don't have cable, and I don't watch TV, so this is all I really know.
Books:
Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, Fountainhead, As You Like It, Nigger, Shogun, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Johnny Got his Gun, Imajica, Weaveworld, The Abarat, The Great and Secret Show, Harry Potter, Trilogy of the Rings (LOTR), Mountainering: Freedom of the Hills (4th Edition), Theif of Always, Jitterbug Perfume, Excession, the Wasp Factory, Origami Omnibus, Patterns: A Manual of Club Passing, The Philosophical Programmer, The Baghadvagita, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy, Neuromancer, The Giving Tree, Story of the Otherwiseman, King Stork, King Rat, Getting over Jack Wagner, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, The Collected works of Louis Daniel Brodsky (vol. 1), The Incarnations of Immortality, Chronicles of Narnia, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Once and Future King and on and on and on...
Heroes:
Howard Roark and John Galt.
