Newfound interests: livestock auctions! spending lazy afternoons at the horse races, going on a volunteering/ backpacking trip through Africa, sailing, surfing, surf buddies (anyone?), meeting new friends and reconnecting with old ones. Also, did I mention roadtrips?
Long-time interests: graphic arts, books, publishing, architecture, photography, industrial design, history, hookers/your mom, gettin f**ked up, anything outdoors, taking trips out of NY, the Mouse House at the Bronx Zoo, mole people.
I'd like to meet:
People who just hang out instead of always making plans, who like their jobs but care more about non-work-related activities, people who will go hop on a train (or in my car now that I'm a gas-guzzling, suv-driving Californian) and leave town for no reason, people to sail and/or surf with or do anything outdoors, people who like to get f**ked up but not in a sad, everyday kind of way, also hot Argentines with guns, and deviant cops. And Martha Plimpton.
Music:
Morrissey! Franz Ferdinand, Echo and the Bunneymen will always kick ASS, Dungen (more Swedish bands should sing in Swedish, it rocks), The Faint, first albums by The Beach Boys and Cat Stevens, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Stevies Wonder and Nicks, Clinic, Revenge of the Black Regent (by Add N to X), Goodbye Horses (by Q Lazzarus, I love that song), V Underground, William Shatner's version of Common People, Killers, Magnetic Fields, Ike and Tina together (bad for her, good for music), Grace Jones, Gainsbourg and several other French musical gods, BUCK 65.
Movies:
Pretty much any movie about Satan or that has Jane Fonda in it but some of my favorites are Rosemary's Baby, The 9th Gate (Polanski is probably the greatest film maker of all time), The Game is Over and 9 to 5. Also any movie by Almodovar. Not a big Fellini fan but La Dolce Vita is one of the best movies ever made. The Day of the Locusts because its probably the most disturbing movie ever made, too many others to list.
Television:
I recently put my tivo to work recording several shows because all I had on there was a bunch of movies and waaaayyy too many Ninja Warrior episodes. If anybody has a good suggestion for quality programming I'm all ears. And when the hell does Nip/Tuck come back? I generally watch movies and random shit because I can't keep up with season schedules.
Books:
Hemingway - always. Waugh and Fitzgerald are close seconds. And Forster. Edith Wharton too. And Henry James. Neil Gaimon is a goddamn genius. No one compares to HS Thompson. Lord of the Rings. Donna Tartt has written a couple of awesome books, can't wait for the third. Everyone should read Cold Comfort Farm - brilliant. Also like non-fiction history and sociological shit. And I'm a sucker for paperback adventure stories.
