Things that make me happy:Argentine Tango, LA & SF Opera, Midnite Ridazz, surfing, hiking in Runyon Canyon, appreciating wine, LA & SF Philharmonic, Cinespia, the smell of surf wax and play-doh, everything about cooking, spending too much time at Whole Foods, spending every last dollar traveling, yoga highs, escapism in reading, barefoot beach parties, practicing compassion, human rights, any kind of fondue, cocktail umbrellas, learning from Buddhism, randomly placed orchids, LACMA, playing backgammon, promoting equality, garlic and ginger, appreciating romance, rainy days, do-it-yourself carwashes, lights and buttons.
I'd like to meet:
People who don't fake the funk.
Anyone who shares my disdain for Von Dutch, Ed Hardy and the Hummer H2
Italians who want to improve their English (as I don't want to lose my Italian)
A tango practice partner.
Native German and Japanese speakers...those are the next languages I'm working on learning...
Music:
Peter Bjorn & John, Tiga, Cut Chemist, Junior Boys, Amp Fiddler, CSS, The Presets, Ryan Adams, M. Ward, Phoenix, Richie Havens, Stevie Wonder, The Arcade Fire, The Streets, Nick Drake, Deathcab for Cutie, Jack Johnson, Ray Charles, The Whitest Boy Alive,Fugazi, Sufjan Stevens, the Mars Volta, Muse, Le Vibrazioni, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Ratatat, Beirut, Sigur Ros, The Postal Service, Nortec Collective, Iron and Wine, Van Morrison, The New Deal, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Of Montreal, 89.9 KCRW, Zero 7, The Flaming Lips, Coldplay, Chris Isaac, Bat Makumba, Cesaria Evora, The Jackson 5, Badly Drawn Boy, Elton John, Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson when he was black,
Favorite Composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, Fryderyk Chopin, Sergey Rachmaninov, Franz Liszt, Jean Sibelius, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and on and on and on....
Movies:
Run Lola Run, Network, Little Miss Sunshine, Rosemary's Baby, Cowboy Bebop, Harold and Maude, Lord of the Rings, The Suicide Kings, The Usual Suspects, The Family Guy movie, Caddyshack, James Bond (Sean Connery, duh), anything Christopher Guest, Roman Polanski or Guy Ritchie, Charade, China Town, Sexy Beast.
Television:
I don't do much of that these days. Okay fine, "Heroes".
Books:
Authors: The Dalai Lama, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Kissinger, Toni Morrison, Paulo Coelho, Dave Eggers, Maya Angelou, Thich Nhat Hanh, James Redfield, Henry David Thoreau, Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald, Dr. Martin Luther King
Heroes:
Pee Wee Herman....that guy had balls, wearing a bowtie and laughing like that.
