books from the inside and out, skiboarding (look it up), photography (dormant but returning), writing but never enough
I'd like to meet:
People who think. People who really think. People who scare little fluffy poodles away with the intensity of their day-to-day thinking. People who understand that philosophy isn't something you dabble in; that writing isn't about amusing yourself and impressing your sig-o; that enjoy things that make them question their most basic axioms.
Music:
Freeland, Charlie Parker, Sleater-Kinney, Cowboy Junkies, Tom Lehrer, Paul Van Dyke, Tanya Donelly, Radiohead, Blur, Tom Waits, Michael Penn, Delerium, Thelonious Monk, Johnny Cash, Beethoven, Ani Difranco, Dashboard Confessionals, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fantomas, Pixies, Jewel, Jackson Browne, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Frank Sinatra, Portishead, System of a Down, Bowling for Soup, Norah Jones, DaVinci's Notebook, John Coltrane, Rilo Kiley, Bach, Laurie Anderson, Flogging Molly, The Delgados, Tori Amos, Paul Simon, Pete Yorn, Kittie, Mahler, Camile Saint-Saens, Weezer, They Might be Giants, Jacques Brel, Leonard Cohen, Tenacious D, Sahara Hotnights, Kate Wolf, Sigur Ros, Magnetic Fields, Weird Al, Bob Dylan, Ornette Coleman, Simon and Garfunkel, Melissa Ferrick, The Beatles, Something Corporate, Dexter Gordon, Emmylou Harris, Chemical Brothers, Sarah McLachlan, Suzanne Vega, Aimee Mann, Howard Shore, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Tchaikovsky, Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews Band, The Crystal Method, Andrew Bird, Ben Folds Five, Nellie McKay, Eleni Mandell, Charles Mingus, Dido, Steve Earle, Dave Brubeck, Carina Round, The Divine Comedy, Rufus Wainwright, Elliott Smith, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Smiths, Jimmy Scott, Aaron Copland, Morcheeba, Muse, The Secret Machines, Mercury Rev, Sneaker Pimps, Broken Social Scene, The Mars Volta, Of A Revolution, Over the Rhine, Boxharp, Poe, Jason Webley, Boards of Canada, Alana Davis, The Helper Monkeys, No Doubt, Eva Cassidy, Madeleine Peyroux, Orbital, The Mr. T. Experience, Alabama 3, Cocteau Twins, Wilco
Movies:
Kill Bill, The Princess and the Warrior, Amelie, Deconstructing Harry, Annie Hall, The Lord of the Ring (all of them), Wonder Boys, Being John Malkovich, The English Patient, End of the Affair, Ronin, Cowboy Bebop, Dead Poet's Society, Magnolia, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut, Breakfast of Champions, Titus, Contact, Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh version), High Fidelity, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, O Brother Where Art Thou, Titanic, Apollo 13, Moulin Rouge, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick version), Barefoot Gen, Ghost in the Shell 1 & 2, Akira, 25th Hour, Narc, Gladiator (amazingly Shakespearian, I thought), Spider Man 2, Something's Gotta Give, Galaxy Quest, Do the Right Thing, Barton Fink, Bullets Over Broadway
Television:
Farscape, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Sex in the City, Cowboy Bebop, Futurama, Faulty Towers, Queer as Folk, Carnivale, Trigun, Southpark, The Daily Show, Battlestar Galactica (new one), Arrested Development, Jeeves and Wooster, Deadwood, Firefly, Good Eats, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Books:
Life of the Cosmos, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Nobody's Perfect, March of Folly, Any Calvin and Hobbes, Sexual Personae, Catch-22, The Hyperion Books, The Restaruant at the End of the Universe, The Annie Dillard Reader, The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh, T.C. Boyle, Burnham's Celestial Handbook, The Tin Drum, Elective Affinities, Das Capital, Mythologies, Faust (Goethe's)
Heroes:
Any bottle of bourbon that lasts more than a month around me I respect.
