Listening to music, going to see live music, talking about music, reading about music, turning people onto new music, politics, and meeting interesting people. I like movies and books too.
I'd like to meet:
People with interesting ideas.
Music:
James Brown, The Meters, Fela Kuti, Sun Ra, The Who, Guided By Voices, Wilco, Los Lobos, Funkadelic, My Morning Jacket, Can, Gram Parsons, Velvet Underground, Carleen & The Groovers, Stereolab, Fiery Furnaces, Miles Davis, Sly & The Family Stone, Grant Green, The Replacements, Os Mutantes, Chocolate Watchband, Black Mountain, Lightnin' Hopkins, Flaming Lips, Howlin' Wolf, Lee Morgan, Idris Muhammad, Love, Television, Kraftwerk, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, The Clash, Tom Waits, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Jorge Ben, Big Star, Pavement, Antibalas, Dungen, The Dirtbombs, John Lee Hooker, Bernard Purdie, Jimmy Smith, Beastie Boys, Yo La Tengo, The Zombies, The Fall, (early) Kool & The Gang, Lee Dorsey, Eddie Bo, Spinto Band, Broken Social Scene, Iron & Wine, Marcos Valle, Ray Barretto, Al Green, Amon Duul, Brian Wilson, The Kinks, Uncle Tupelo, Curtis Mayfield, (early) REM, The Byrds, and so on...
Movies:
anything by Wes Anderson, the Coen Brothers, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Richard Linklater, and other equally-inspired directors. Oh, and Repo Man.
