Outdoorsy stuff, birdwatching, gardening, sustainable agriculture, Buddhism and meditation, yoga, cooking, hockey, philosophy, theology, exploring good restaurants, checking out different cultural events, music, volunteering, dorky historical stuff, travel, trying to stay sane in an insane world...
I'd like to meet:
People of the nerdly persuasion.
People who like trees.
People who like hiking and camping.
People who love music.
Hockey fans.
People who like to explore the City.
People who like to do dorky stuff.
People who like to go on hikes, explore new places, cook, check out new restaurants, see live music, play Scrabble, drink good beer, do the crossword, & who enjoy chill nights at home with a good dinner and a DVD.
People who like gardening, being outdoors, reading, listening to music, traveling, & historical things.
Down-to-earth, compassionate people with scholarly, creative minds and quirky Weltanshauungs.
I'm not into loud, smoky places or big groups of people. I like to have a drink or two, but I don't consider getting trashed a "social activity." I'm most comfortable in small groups of people with good conversation and good food.
Pretty, single women around my age with the above characteristics.
Jon Stewart, Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama.
Music:
Americana, bluegrass, punk rock, jazz, alt country, indie rock/lo-fi, Celtic, early music...
The Old 97s, Beth Orton, Alela Diane, Gillian Welch, Wilco, Son Volt, Jay Farrar, Uncle Tupelo, The Clash, Bad Religion, Hildegard von Bingen, John Coltrane, Johann Sebastian Bach, Tony Trischka, Miles Davis, Tony Williams, Ron Carter, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Smith, Noonday Underground, The Mendoza Line, The Soledad Brothers, Mercury Rev, Pete Yorn, Leo Kottke, The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Grant-Lee Phillips/Buffalo, Califone, Red House Painters, Masters of Reality, Eels, The Folk Implosion, Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, Cracker, Evan Dando, fIREHOSE, John Fahey, Jorma Kaukonen, Michael Franti/Spearhead/Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Norfolk & Western, Pete Yorn, Super Furry Animals, The Chieftains, Badly Drawn Boy, The Glengarry Bhoys...
Currently on tap:
Movies:
City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Baraka, Run Lola Run, Shawshank Redemption, American History X, Breakfast Club, Frida (Salma Hayek is way hot), Repo Man, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Fight Club, Adaptation, Memento, Welcome to the Dollhouse, High Fidelity, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells, Snatch, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Se7en, and although I am a connoisseur of the bad summer action flick...I am pleased to have both the IFC and Sundance On Demand. I
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Television:
NOVA, Criminal Minds, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, Men in Trees, and random stuff on the Science Channel, The History Channel, and the Travel Channe. The National Geographic Channel has some great stuff, but the cheese factor can be a bit much.
In the archives: Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Six Feet Under, Law & Order: SVU, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Without a Trace, Good Eats.
Books:
General
The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
One or Two Things I Know for Sure, Dorothy Allison
Everything by Dorothy Allison
The People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
The Passion, Jeannette Winterson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Poetry
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
Loose Woman, Sandra Cisneros
Blues for All the Seasons, Nikki Giovanni
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain, Charles Bukowski
Sustainable Agriculture/Organic Gardening:
Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture, edited by Andrew Kimbrell
Eat More Dirt : Diverting and Instructive Tips for Growing and Tending an Organic Garden, by Ellen Sandbeck
Home Economics, Wendell Berry
Food, Inc. From Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest, Peter Pringle
Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship, edited by Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry
Second Nature, Michael Pollan
Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
On Buddhism and Meditation:
The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, Pema Chödrön
Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns & Encountering Naked Reality (Audio CD), Pema Chödrön
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation, Thich Nhat Hanh
Anger: Cooling the Flames Within, Thich Nhat Hanh
Heroes:
Jacques Cousteau, Thomas Jefferson (yes, complicated and contradictory character that he was--and no, I am no apologist for his views on slavery), Thich Nhat Hanh, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Socrates, my late friend Bob (R.I.P.), Thich Nhat Hanh, The Dalai Lama, all the people who get up every day and face life with love in their hearts...despite it all.
