Good Food, Good Friends, Sustainability, The Peace Corps, Surfing, Rock Climbing, Hiking, Backpacking, Camping, Travelling, Road Trips, SCUBA and Free Diving, In Depth Conversations, Art, Literature, Vintage Cars and Hot Rods, Welding, Metal Working, Wood Working, Metal Sculpture, Making Films, Watching Films, Watching Bad Horror Movies, Watching Old Kung Foo Flicks, Drive-in Movie Theaters, Photography, Playing Music (Drums, Steel Drums, Harmonica, Bass and Piano), Going to Concerts and Listening to my LP collection.
People, unless chimps can use computers now, I'd like to meet a chimp.
Soul, Rythm and Blues, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Rock-a-billy, Surf Rock, True Punk, Ska, Reggae, Funk, Swing, Bluegrass, Celtic, Latin (Salsa, Samba and Jazz), West African Drums, Calypso, Underground Hip-Hop and even Classical (When I'm in the Right Mood), but certianly not mainstream rap, modern country, pop, pop-punk, emo, screamo or death metal.
Riding Giants, Dogtown and Z-Boys, The Original Star Wars movies, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, James Bond (The Connery days), anything that Tim Burton was involved with (Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, etc.), The Life Aquatic, Rushmore, Clerks, Reservoir Dogs, anything by Hitchcock, Chinatown, The Shining, Rear Window, Dead Man, The Nightwatch, Cool Hand Luke, Bullet, On the Water Front, Monty Python (shows and movies), Waynes World, Blues Brothers, Dazed and Confused, Animal House, Army of Darkness, Boondock Saints, Snatch, Spinal Tap, The Kids Are Alright, The Led Zeppelin DVD, The Grateful Dead Movie, Festival Express, The Endless Summer, Blade Runner, The Night of the Hunter, Schindler's List, Treadkill, Clearing in the Fog, Do The Right Thing, The Princess Bride, V for Vendetta, Old Kung Foo movies, the original Italian Job, and any film in the Film Noir genre, to name more than a few.
I don't have cable, but shows that I watch on occasion include Mash, Scrubs, The Daily Show, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Boondocks and Arrested Development.
The Stranger, Ishmael, Johnny Got His Gun, Neither Wolf Nor Dog, Calvin and Hobbes, Lord of the Flies, Grimms Fairy Tales, Catch 22, On The Road, The Ledge, Anything by Hemmingway or Poe, Invisible Man (by Ralph Ellison not THE Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, though that's a good one too.) 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Anything by Roald Dahl, The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
John Cook