On the whole, I am not normal, ordinary, or average. I would describe my sense of humor as being contextual, zany, and clever. While this may make me interesting, more often than not I feel that my lifestyle is sufficiently boring to disqualify myself from prospective relationship material. Believing this to be true, I can be and frequently am quite depressing.
I am older than the Chicken McNugget and Cookies 'n' Creme ice cream (both, as it happens, were introduced in 1983).
I'm curious as to who these stars represent:
Get Your Own Map
Since people are stupid and will cause MySpace to mistakenly interpret the map clicking link as spam or phishing, I need to copy the appropriate link here: http://whos.amung.us/maps/axuwatj8/night/star-yellow
My cat Bean
Putting the "ugh" back in "though"
Lobster Telephone
Linguistics, which it seems is not my chosen field
Pedantry with the English language and perceived good usage thereof
Using the word "like"
fatalism: (n) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them -- Maybe defeatism is more my style...
More or less useless mathematics
Origami
Complaining about annoying things
Architectural photography
Japanese-style karaoke
My co-hermit
I'd Like to Go to:Yellowstone National Park, Tokyo, Kyoto, the symphony, the opera, Ireland, Rome, the tundra, the Olympic Summer Games, the FIFA World Cup, Paris, a hockey game, museums of modern art
GARNET CROW
L'Arc~en~Ciel
Bump of Chicken
The Brilliant Green
BoA
HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Die Ärzte
plus something like seven hundred years of the Western classical tradition
Casablanca
The Seventh Seal
The Seven Samurai
The Maltese Falcon
Something with Cary Grant, maybe His Girl Friday
Swing Time
Animal Crackers
Twelve Angry Men
Lawrence of Arabia
The Third Man
The Rules of the Game
La Strada
Shimotsuma Monogatari (aka "Kamikaze Girls")
Psycho (Hitchcock's version, not the remake)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Turner Classic Movies should be broadcast over the air as a public service.
I guess this list makes me seem pretentious.
New episodes of these shows make me extraordinarily happy and I advocate watching them: Doctor Who (Hooray! to SciFi for bringing it back to America), House, and Monk
Sports: baseball, hockey, tennis, badminton (the five times it's been on a channel I've been able to watch...), association football (soccer to my fellow Americani, and any Japanese people who might be reading this)
British sitcoms: As Time Goes By, Keeping Up Appearances, Coupling, Posh Nosh, Red Dwarf, Are You Being Served?, Kiss Me Kate, Mulberry, The Vicar of Dibley, The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin (he mumbles too much though)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis
Project Runway
Turner Classic Movies, as I said
I've read too much to always be able to keep track of every book I've liked, so what follows will be updated as I am reminded of what I've read.
Don Quijote (yes, with a "j", you can tell which translation I actually finished);
Mr. Gogol, you certainly could write (e.g. Dead Souls)
Most anything by Haruki Murakami (especially Kafka on the Shore [read it now])
The part of Banana Yoshimoto's kitchen that wasn't kitchen
Origami
Catch 22 (the saddest a book has ever made me feel)
The Great Gatsby
Jane Austen
Flaubert's Madame Bovary (the circus of my psyche)
Siddhartha
Jane Austen
Currently "reading" (in order of start):
-- Ulysses
-- Transformational Grammar
-- Learning Vocabulary in Another Language
Well, I guess I could list Dr. Gregory House, Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, and T.H. White. And Roger Federer, because he is the greatest, even though he plays tennis.