Art, design, computers, nature, origami, movies, music, humor, horror, maps, science, exploded/cutaway diagrams, and the absence of bullshit.
I spend a good deal of time in my head, which I clear by walking in Central Park (it's the closest thing a non-driving city dweller gets to actual nature). Talking on the phone or meeting with friends, researching obscure subjects and then dropping them like hot potatoes for the next one-- I keep things simple. I'm most at peace hiking or sitting in the woods, and no- I do not own a manual typewriter or a "shack". It's simply the best way for me to decompress.
I'd like to meet:
People who have LEGIBLE MySpace homepages.
Those who consider cause and effect.
Appreciators of form and function.
Those who recognize the link between man and animal.
Dangerous minds.
Creative types.
Troublemakers.
Social lubricators of the dream world.
Harborers of unanswerable questions.
Oh- and Harley Quinn:
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Music:
I suppose it's time I updated this section, so you asked for it!
I have been listening to a ton of mashups lately. It's interesting to note how music can and does naturally overlap itself, expanding beyond the (generally) Western note and beat structures it was developed in, and how it's stored in popular memory. It's also fun to hear how different people experience, organize and process music.
OK, enough lecture.
The regulars:
• 10,000 Maniacs
• A Tribe Called Quest
• Aretha Franklin
• Bad Religion
• Beastie Boys
• the Beatles
• Big in Japan (sorry, not the 80's band)
• Billie Holiday
• Black Sheep
• Blondie
• the Breeders
• Cake
• the Cardigans
• Cocteau Twins
• Coldplay
• Cypress Hill
• David Bowie
• De la Soul
• Dead Kennedys
• Fugazi
• Gorillaz
• Handsome Boy Modeling School
• Indigo Girls
• Interpol (although they SUCKED on SNL)
• James Brown
• Jimi Hendrix
• Journey
• Lake Trout
• Lovage
• Madball
• Marilyn Manson
• the Maytals
• Metallica
• Natalie Merchant
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• Outkast
• Pantera
• Parliament Funkadelic
• Pat Benetar
• Peter Gabriel
• the Pixies
• Primus
• Prodigy
• Queens of the Stone Age
• Radiohead
• Rage Against the Machine
• the Ramones
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Rush
• Sex Pistols
• Slayer
• Sly and the Family Stone
• Smashing Pumpkins
• the Smiths
• Social Distortion
• Soulwax
• the Stranglers
• the Streets
• Sublime
• System of a Down
• Tenacious D
• Tori Amos
• Transplants
• Weezer
• Wu Tang Clan
• Zamfir and his Magical goddamn Flute- WHEW!
Movies:
Too many to mention, but here's a sampling:
Directors
Jeunet
Spike Lee
Quentin Tarantino
the Cohen bros
Harold Ramis
Tim Burton
Spike Jonze
Terry Gilliam
M. Knight Shyamalan
Movies
A Clockwork Orange
the Matrix (the first)
The Big Lebowski
Barton Fink
Fear and Loathing
Waking Life
Ghostbusters
The Hunted
Manchurian Candidate (the first)
City of Joy
Powder
City of Lost Children
Requiem for a Dream
Spun
I Married a Strange Person
Way of the Gun
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Batman
Blade
Bladerunner
Brazil
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Run Lola Run
28 Days Later
Dawn of the Dead
The War Room
Spirited Away
The Neverending Story
the Dark Crystal
Labyrinth
Delicatessen
Dark City
Being John Malkovitch
Adaptation
The Professional
SO looking forward to this:
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Television:
Heroes!! I like all those sciency law shows like CSI, nature shows, and cartoons like the Simpsons, Family Guy and Drawn Together. Otherwise TV is pretty depressing.
Books:
Authors
Philip K. Dick
Ursula LeGuinn
William Gibson
Piers Anthony
Joseph Campbell
Stephen King
Michael Chrichton
Books
Fahrenheit 451
A Clockwork Orange
Andromeda Strain
Flow my Tears
Confessions of a Crap Artist
Burning Chrome
Fierce People
Old Yeller
The Running Man
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
UBIK
The Golden Compass
The Xanth series
Sophie's World (so far)
tons of art reference
LOTS of computer manuals
--more to come--
Heroes:
Jim Henson, Mom & Dad, Joe Ox
