I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet people who educate, inspire or entertain me... I have a few close friends I've known all my life. I'd like to make more.
Music:
Bands: Beatles, Superdrag, Jackson 5, Weezer, Sex Pistols, The Carpenters, Vain, Radiohead, Teenage Fanclub, Rocket from the Crypt, Pitchfork, Oasis, Rialto, Supergrass, Travis, The Doors, Cheap Trick, Simple Plan, Alice Cooper, KISS, A*TEENS, The Beach Boys, The Velvet Underground, JourneySolo Artists: Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis, Brendan Benson, David Bowie, Rick Springfield, Barry Manilow, Paul Stanley Solo Album, Bob Dylan, Rod StewartSingers: Michael Jackson (age 14 & under), Karen Carpenter, Whitney Houston (particularly The Bodyguard soundtrack), George Michael, Louie Louie, Stevie Rachelle ("Tuff"), Davy Vain, Coco Lee, Robin Zander, singer from "Taz" & "Cyclone Sound", Frank Sinatra, Steve PerryAlbums: Appetite for Destruction - Guns & Roses; Life - The Cardigans; A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles; Dookie - Green Day; Blue - Weezer; One Missisipi - Brendan Benson; Two Steps from the Move - Hanoi Rocks; Led Zeppelin I, The Doors, In The Valley of Dying Stars - SuperDrag; Survivor When Seconds Count - Rick Springfield, Working Class DogInstruments: The Er Hu, Piano, certain guitar tones (Rocket from the Crypt, Sex Pistols, Rolling Stones)MySpace Artists: Limbeck, Butch Walker, The Fictions, The Ettes, Feable Weiner, Billionaire Boys Club, Halfway Home, The Pacific, The Honorary Title, Stranded Alone, Kill Hannah, FallOutBoy, Melee, The Shore, The Summer Obsession, Kino, Cary Brothers, The Volunteers, The Howl, Head Automatica, Seel Fresh, Jupiter Sunrise, Keane, Say Anything. Tsar, Much The Same!
Movies:
Films: Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Hur, Patton, Spartacus, Gandhi, The 10 Commandments, Apocalypse Now, Beauty & The Beast (the cartoon), Thin Red Line, Titanic, Gladiator, The Patriot, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Un Coeur en Hiver, To Live, Happy Times, The Road Home, Not One Less, Ju Dou, Red Sorghum, The Empire of the Sun, Gone With the Wind, The Godfather, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner, Deer Hunter, Mean Streets, Grease, Urban Cowboy, Saturday Night Fever, The Sound of Music, Copland, Xiu Xiu, Dances With WolvesDirectors: Kubrick, Francis Copolla, Zhang Yimou, Anh Hung Tran, Steven Spielberg
Television:
Tuned out. Except for SF Giants. I rented Band of Brothers and liked that.
Books:
History, Non-Fiction, How-To, George Orwell (mainly the essays), Milan Kundera, The Birth of Tragedy, Untimely Meditations, Beyond Good &; Evil, A Story Like the Wind
Heroes:
Lee Kuan Yew, Friedrich Nietzsche, Laurens van der Post, George Orwell, Frederick Dolan (Prof. of Rhetoric, UCB), Lawrence of Arabia, My Mom
