music, computers, art, architecture, urban planning, urban spelunking, literature, poetry, scifi/fantasy, photography, photoshopping, shopping, astronomy, cosmology, substance [ab]use, activism, cooking, biking, skateboarding, carillon, organ, dutch, french, german, american sign language, ballroom dance, printing presses, sportbikes, belgian beers, cumulonimbus clouds, roadrunners and emus. check out my urban spelunking photography .
People who're adventurous, outgoing, and open-minded, who live, eat, breathe, and sleep music and art. People to go bike touring/MTB with, to the opera with, to museums with, through abandoned tunnels and onto roofs with. People to cook with, eat chocolate with, venture to new restaurants with, go shopping with, muse about urban planning or sociological ideas about art with. People to laugh and enjoy life with. Maybe even someone who can teach me to skate the ramps?
Radiohead, Rachmaninov, Weezer, Wagner, Sinatra, Cake, Chopin, Massive Attack, Milhaud, Geert D'hollander, Muse, Philip Glass, Pink Floyd, Dido, Die Prinzen, Duncan Sheik, Air, Arvo Pärt, Aphex Twin, Beethoven, Rob Thomas, Tchaikovsky, Infected Mushroom, non-Westernized world music, and all that other stuff that obsesses me. Embedded song: "Een Aangename Voois" as I played it on one of the heaviest carillons in Europe (Mechelen, BE).
Koyaanisqatsi, The Matrix, Moulin Rouge, Back To The Future, Dead Poets Society, The Prince of Egypt, Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli), Howl's Moving Castle
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Nova, X-Men (the cartoon), Sesame Street, X-Games. As you can tell, I haven't watched TV for years, but my favorite visual artists and architects include Vermeer, Kandinsky, Mondriaan, DalÃ, Oldenburg & van Bruggen, Ed Burtynsky, Richard Misrach, David Plowden, Bernd + Hilla Becher, Le Corbusier, Gehry
The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges (Joseph Soares), Earthsea 'Trilogy' (LeGuin), The Positronic Man (Silverberg/Asimov), Lord of the Rings (Tolkein), Elegant Universe (Greene), The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro), Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Bach), The Secret Garden (Burnett), Paradise Lost (Milton), Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), A Room Of One's Own (Woolf), Beowulf, Grendel (Gardner), Petrarch, New Haven: A Guide (Brown), Berkeley Landmarks (Cerny)
Joseph A. Soares of Wake Forest University and Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise NCC-1701-D