outdoorsy stuff like tennis, hiking, biking (mountain or just Midtown), exploring, picnicking, camping, and beach-going; indoorsy things like movies; everywhere things like poetry, music, singing, laughing, reading, writing, drinking, eating.
I'd like to meet:
Regina Spektor, supergenius. :)And these motherfuckers:
Music:
Las Pesadillas, Ben Folds Five/Ben Folds, Smoking Popes, Jets to Brazil, Yma Sumac, Postal Service, Morphine, Dead Milkmen, the Sundays, Grandaddy, Bob Barango, Bernardo Monk, Dixie Chicks, Simon and Garfunkel, the Smiths, Team Dresch, Folk Implosion, Fifteen, Regina Spektor, Kings of Convenience, Elliott Smith, Weezer, Cat Stevens, Gene, Chris Isaak, Beastie Boys, the Streets, Longmont Potion Castle, the Cure, Presidents of the United States of America, Pet Shop Boys, Bjork, the Police, Jane's Addiction, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Decemberists, Violent Femmes, King Kong, Supernova, Portishead, Belle and Sebastian, the Dead Hensons, the Shins, Billie Holliday, Count Basie, early and bluegrass Dolly Parton, Saul Williams, Tom Petty, the Mamas and the Papas, Frente, and too many others to list.
Movies:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, documentaries (Murderball, Riding Giants, Dogtown and Z Boys, Capturing the Friedmans, Born into Brothels, The Devil's Miner, Breasts, The Heart of the Game, Ghosts of Rwanda [not that I need to see that one again], Shut up and Sing, etc.), P.S., The Departed, Pipe Dreams, The Laramie Project, You Can Count on Me, Boys Don't Cry, Beautiful Thing, Hal Hartley stuff (Trust, Henry Fool, etc.), Gregg Araki stuff (Mysterious Skin, Nowhere, Doom Generation), Run Lola Run, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, Terms of Endearment, Happiness, Fight Club, A Life at the End of the World, You and Me and Everyone We Know, Imaginary Heroes, Trainspotting, Imagine You and Me, But I'm a Cheerleader, The Dreamers, Beautiful Thing, Personal Best, Shattered Glass, musicals (Fiddler, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady, the Sound of Music, Rocky Horror, Grease -- even Grease 2), comedies, dramas, Oscar-winners tons and tons of others I can't think of right now.Oh, and I made a little film myself a year or so back, a documentary supporting a friend's film. You can read about that here: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=48405
Television:
Globe Trekker, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Rick Steves, Iron Chef America, Gilmore Girls, The L Word (which happens to really suck if you enjoy things like writing and plot development and continuity but isn't so bad because of Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey and Daniela Sea), shows with psychics and ghost hunters and true-crime stuff, History Channel stuff, Discovery Channel shows, Starved, Arrested Development, Friends, That 70s Show, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, Queer as Folk!, Mr. Show, The Closer, Big Love, Lost. And now I'm hooked on Veronica Mars.
Books:
Under the Banner of Heaven, To the Lighthouse, Pride and Prejudice, Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, The Witching Hour, classics, most of Toni Morrison's books, photography books, National Geographic/Time collections and shit you'd consider coffee-table books, poetry (anthologies and individuals like Dorothy Parker, for instance). When I was younger, I was into Judy Blume, Lois Duncan, V.C. Andrews, Anne Rice, etc. And of course I'm an editor, so the books I use most often are related to grammar and writing.
Heroes:
Shirley Chisholm. A bad ass. :)
Colbert. Seriously. My hero.
Natalie Maines & Co. P.S. Can I just say how freaking cute Natalie is? Jeez.
