I can get interested in just about anything... but some things I especially like are: WORDS and wordplay, laughing (with and at), creativity in its various manifestations, information, intense sensory experiences, details, oddities of scale (and sometimes hue), live music, good conversation, bacon, dancing, TRAVEL, Modern art/design/architecture, FOOD (!) – especially if it isn’t good for me (see: bacon), the humor of the absurd, diversity and breadth in beauty, Wikipedia, taking naps, correcting your grammar, water (swimming in it, bathing/showering in it, drinking it -- even looking at it), experimenting with digital photography, making lists (see?), Venn diagrams, having fun (or getting fun stuff) for cheap – or better yet, for free!, monkeys and other nonhuman primates, highbrow/lowbrow comedy, bacon, random statistics, alternative and/or altered perspectives, affection, escapism, the history and taxonomy of the universe and everything contained within it, fractals, accuracy, hedonistic sloth, penguins, butt jokes, dolphins, bacon, Flamenco, smoke and vapor, waging intellectual war against the obstinately ignorant (trying to rid the world of “stupid†one error at a time), contemporary literary critical theory, “raging hoteys,†Islamic art and architecture, skiing, sociopolitical debate, things that smell like lavender, overanalyzing everything, bacon, sexy electronic gadgets, semi-wishing I were a DJ, German cars, Khmer and Mayan ruins, weirdly colored flowers (and cauliflower!), plants and botanical gardens, armchair psychopharmacology, NCAA March Madness, being nostalgic for 5 minutes ago, bacon, organic fruit, languages & linguistics, fashion and clothing and girly crap, kicking ass, things that kick ass (like bacon), religious theory and anthropology, the sociology of communication, doodling, stretching, circling things in catalogs that I will never buy, daydreaming about vacations I won't be able to afford for years, and other aspirational activities that quell my would-be shopping addiction. And bacon.
I'd like to meet:
Here, it used to just say, "old friends and people who don't suck." For a time, that was enough.
Then I wrote a very, very long rant explaining who I will and won't approve and why. Not surprisingly, this did not actually do anything to stop the creepy random friend requests.
So I got rid of the multiparagraph explanation and boiled it down to this: if you've actually ever met or interacted with me, I'll approve you. (If it's not immediately obvious why I should know you, please send me a message!) Otherwise, I probably won't.
Anyway, I'd also like to meet Paul Rudd... yes yes, I sure would. Oh, and the Wilson brothers... they're my Olsen twins. (They're all on my "list," so it's ok!)
Music:
To name a few… !!!, Air, Aimee Mann, Amon Tobin, Ani DiFranco, THE ARCADE FIRE, Architecture in Helsinki, Art Brut, The Avalanches, Battles, The Beatles, Beck, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, The Benevento-Russo Duo (and pretty much any project involving Joe Russo), The Beta Band, Better Than Ezra, Big In Japan, Bjork, Black Eyed Peas (pre-Fergie), Bloc Party, Blondie, Bloodhound Gang, Blur, Brazilian Girls, Brothers Past (and related side projects),Busta Rhymes, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clinic, Clor, Craig Armstrong, Daft Punk, Dar Williams, DFA Artists (James Murphy/LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, (The) Juan MacLean, Shit Robot, Tim & Tim, etc.), Diplo, The Disco Biscuits (and related side projects), DJ Danger Mouse, DJ Shadow, DJ Spooky, The Doors, Dr. Dre, Electron, Esthero, Fatboy Slim, Fiona Apple, The Flaming Lips, Franz Ferdinand, Frederic Chopin, The Fugees, Fujiya & Miyagi, Garbage, Girl Talk, Gnarls Barkley, The Go! Team, Gorillaz, Green Day, Guns-n-Roses, Herbert, Indigo Girls, Infected Mushroom, The Jackson 5, James Brown, Jamie Lidell, Jamiroquai, Junior Boys, Justin Timberlake, The Kinks, Lindstrom, Madonna, Man or Astro-man?, Massive Attack, Medeski, Martin, & Wood, Menomena, M.I.A., Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Morcheeba, Mylo, The New Deal, New Order, The New Pornographers, Nirvana, OUT HUD, OTT, Pavement, Peter, Bjorn, & John, Phish, Pink Floyd, The Postal Service/Dntel, The Prodigy, Queen, The Raconteurs, RADIOHEAD (!!!), Rancid/Operation Ivy, Republica, RJD2, Robbie Williams, The Shins, Simon Posford (Hallucinogen, Shpongle, Younger Brother, etc.), Soul Coughing, Spoon, Squarepusher, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime, Talking Heads, Tara MacLean, Ted Leo (& the Pharmacists), Tenacious D, They Might Be Giants, Tom Petty (& the Heartbreakers), Tori Amos, Tortoise, Tosca, Tracy Chapman, Tricky, TV on the Radio, U.N.K.L.E., Velvet Underground, Vitalic, Violent Femmes, W.A. Mozart, The Walkmen, Weezer, The White Stripes, WILCO, Wolf Parade, Wyclef Jean, YO LA TENGO
Movies:
Wet Hot American Summer, Rushmore, Pulp Fiction, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Office Space, Party Girl, Best in Show, Yellow Submarine, South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, The Royal Tenenbaums, Kill Bill, Zoolander, The Breakfast Club, Waiting for Guffman, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Half Baked, early Muppet movies, Say Anything, Bring It On, Terminator 2, The House of Yes, Billy Madison, Wayne's World (1 & 2), Donnie Darko, Caddyshack, Bottle Rocket, Better Off Dead, Reality Bites, How High?, Happy Gilmore, Waking Life, The Cheerleaders, Drumline, You Got Served, bad teen movies in general
Television:
Arrested Development, The Daily Show, 24, South Park, Mr. Show, The Sopranos, Entourage, The State, Seinfeld, The Colbert Report, Futurama, Kids in the Hall, Lost, Heroes, Pimp My Ride, Tenacious D, Late Night with David Letterman (from the 80s -- yay Trio!), My So-Called Life, NCAA Championship basketball, The Simpsons, Da Ali G Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, geeky travel and history shows, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, various 80s sitcoms (Full House, Family Matters, etc.), Monty Python's Flying Circus, Jeopardy, Degrassi: The New Generation (guilty pleasure), The Real World (another guilty pleasure), Dexter's Laboratory, Family Feud (Dawson/Colmes/Dawson era), Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Upright Citizens Brigade, Cheaters (it's back!), Powerpuff Girls, Sesame Street (old school) and other miscellaneous childrens' programming, Ren & Stimpy, The Ben Stiller Show, Viva Variety, Family Guy, German phone-sex ads (just trust me on that one). I've also recently developed a weakness for Survivor and Kid Nation... and I really hate Grey's Anatomy, but for some reason I watch it anyway.And I totally ♥ my TiVo.
Books:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time (Mark Haddon), A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess), Flatland (Edwin Abbott), The House of Sleep (Jonathan Coe), The Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius), I absolutely love just about anything by David Foster Wallace, Francesca Lia Block, Mina Loy, and Geoffrey Chaucer. I'm also a fan of Jonathan Lethem, Jeffrey Eugenides, Sylvia Plath, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and Elizabeth Wurtzel, among others. Honestly, though, I'm one of the worst-read English major-cum-writer/editor types you'll ever meet -- these days I tend towards Wikipedia and The New Yorker.
Heroes:
Elaine Benes & George Costanza, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mina Loy, Dorothy Parker, Beavis, Gertrude Bell, Joan Miro, Snoop Dogg, U Thant, Edie Sedgwick (more of a muse than a hero), Yul Kwon (winner of Racist Survivor), David Bowie (just... because)
