assorted drinks, well-dressed men, long socks, football (not the American kind), music, reading, travel, arts, vodka, rock shows, museums, dancing, dancing with fair-skinned boys, writing or attempting to get out of this decade long block, my friends, openings, escapism as a crutch.
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People who are unusually free spirited but grounded as well. Old Souls, music lovers, those who love to dance, people who encourage selflessness and progress, people who think for themselves, people who can understand tragedy but can also understand overcoming that tragedy and appreciate it.
I'd Like not to Meet: flakey fake people, self centered egoists, fair weather fans and disrespectful people.....oh yeah, sociopaths. AND.....guys like this (they are out there in numbers)
David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, The Dears, The Strokes, VU, Lou Reed, Franz Ferdinand, Ladytron, Beta Band, Fischerspooner, T-Rex, Danny Teneglia, Andy C, The Pixies, Polyphonic Spree, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Iggy Pop, Peaches, The Killers, The Modern Lovers, The Troggs, Portishead, Brian Eno, DJ Krush, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Chet Baker, Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, Gene Vincent, Dick Dale, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Cure, Mazzy Star, Clinic, Coldplay, Grandaddy, Karsh Kale, Radiohead, The Sea and Cake, Air, Arcade Fire, Talking Heads, The Cars, TV on the Radio, Blondie, Death Cab for Cutie, Sigur Ros, Nina Simone, Otis Redding, Al Green, Tears for Fears, Human League, LCD Soundsystem, Suicide, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, (it goes on forever but I hope you get the idea)
Silence of The Lambs, A Clockwork Orange, High Fidelity, Girl Interrupted, The House of Spirits, Dazed and Confused, Lolita, Kids, Dark City, The Dreamers, Being John Malkovich, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,American Beauty, Ripley's Game, 28 Days Later, Reality Bites, Dead Ringers, anything by Lars von Trier, anything by Godard, Naked, anything by Jarmush, Laurel and Hardy, Barry Lyndon, WATCH MEDIA FUNHOUSE!!
The Complete Dorothy Parker, American Psycho (Ellis), 1984, anything by Jim Thompson, Dark Tower series, Women in Love, A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), The Fountainhead (Rand), Tales of Ordinary Madness (Bukowski), Nightshift, When I Was Five I Killed Myself, The Stranger (Camus), Bonfire of the Vanities (Wolf), The Best of Everything, Valley of the Dolls, Nine Stories (Salinger), The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood), The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon), Brave New World...
My Grandmother. She was one of the most amazing women I ever met.