Well well well...I have a lot of interests: a) my girlfriend b) music in general c) playing piano (jazz and classical) d) playing percussion e) SNOWBOARDING!!!! f) sports of all nature except golf and bowling...although I am up for making a fool out of myself occasionally g) watching movies h) xbox360 hardcore i) your mom
Anyone, really. ESPECIALLY if you like any type of music whatsoever (but even more so for jazz lovers). Bands, too, I'm trying to meet new artists and such. But hey, I like people, so seriously, add me. No, seriously.
As I go to the Eastman School of Music, I listen to absolutely anything. And it's not fair to ask me what my favorite music is. Cuz it's all awesome in some way. I guess the only thing I'm not into is hardcore country music (I will admit that I enjoy some country rock stuff tho) and krunk rap. But other than that, here's some stuff that I like. JAZZ: Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau, Chick Corea, The Bad Plus, McCoy Tyner, Wynton Kelly, Soulive, Cannonball, Bill Evans, Lennie Tristano, Carl Fischer, hundreds more, anything that has a pretty damn hard groove to it...I listen to any jazz, though, no matter what. CLASSICAL: whatever's on the radio--I like piano concertos, Chopin, Lizst, Schumann, Bach, and I'm also a huge fan of Russian composers like Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofiev to name a few. Rachmaninoff is also a favorite, especially "Rhapsodie on a Theme by Paganini." Mahler Symphonies make for excellent mood music...Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" is probably my favorite choral/orchestral piece, but Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" comes close at least. ALTERNATIVE: Radiohead, Keane, DMB, Damien Rice...uh...I'm drawing a blank even though I have like 70 alternative artists on my iPod. MUSIC IS MY LIFE. Oh, and bassoon is an awesome instrument...especially cuz my girlfriend plays it.
The problem with me is...when I was younger, I never really watched too many movies, so if you ask me "have you seen ___(insert classic movie title)?" chances are I'll say no. But...I love Quentin Tarantino films like Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction, but also LoTR, Star Wars, Office Space, Harry Potter, The Matrix Trilogy, stuff like that. I'm also a fan of Armageddon (Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck), Apollo 13 (Tom Hanks), Saving Private Ryan...really anything with Tom Hanks, and come to think of it anything with Ben Stiller as well. But I watch anything...except black and whites, I can't take those.
Can't really find time or interest in sitting around and watching TV, but I love Monk, CSI, football, basketball, tennis, and that channel known as SpikeTV. Oh, and Family Guy is perhaps the greatest comedy ever. South Park is close, the older episodes were better. And no, I never really got into Simpsons or Seinfeld. But I'm currently trying to do so.
Harry Potter, Tom Clancy novels, anything written by your mom.
Any jazz pianist of fame...esp. Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau, and Chick Corea. OH, and Batman saved my life one time.