I love going backpacking, collecting New Wave vinyl, trying to play the guitar, skinny ties, Chuck Taylor Cons, little buttons, and bitching about right wingers and Neo Cons. I've also been knitting as of late (don't ask me why).
I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet people who are into similar music as me (New Wave, '77 Punk, Glam, UMFUG...), people who have some depth of character (like anyone would admit to a lack of character), and people who enjoy the outdoors.I'd also like to meet Maya Rudolph. I've got a crush on her. She's cute, funny, and musically talented.
Music:
Genres: Rockabilly, Surf Rock, 60's Pop, Proto Punk, Glam (the 70's variety, not the 80's), Punk, New Wave, Post Punk, Modern Rock, etc... I Love: The Clash, Magazine, Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley, Joy Division, New Order, A Flock Of Seagulls, Gary Numan, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soft Cell, The Damned, Dead Kennedys, Oingo Boingo, The Cramps, Joan Jett, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie, Devo, The Cars, The Cure, The Chameleons U.K., The Smiths, Morrisey, Bauhaus, The Go Go's, The 101ers, Big Audio Dynamite, Madness, The Specials, The English Beat, Bow Wow Wow, Thompson Twins, The Police, Men At Work, Cyndi Lauper, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Adam (and the) Ant(s), Elvis Costello, The Stray Cats, Joe Jackson, U2, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Brian Eno, T. Rex, The Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, Link Wray, The Ventures, George Thorogood, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Leonard Cohen, Midnight Oil, The Kinks, Otis Redding, The Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Franz Ferdinand, OK Go, The Killers, The Strokes, The Hives, The Shout Out Louds, Tegan and Sara, The Dandy Warhols, The Raveonettes, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Tomita, Jean Michel Jarre, Air, etc.....
Movies:
The Goonies, City of Lost Children, Sixteen Candles, Valley Girl, The Star Wars Trilogy (non-special edition), Star Trek (2, 3, 4, 6), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Repo Man, South Park, Dark City, Akira, Brazil, Dr. Strangelove, Princess Mononoki, Castle in the Sky: Laputa, Grosse Pointe Blank, Better Off Dead, Real Genius, Princess Bride, Quick Change, Office Space, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Saved!, Dark Man, Evil Dead, Army Of Darkness, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Bubble Boy, Donnie Darko, Lilo and Stitch (Disney doing a quality, animated feature length film that isn't a musical?!? inconceivable!), Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, Pirates Of The Carribean, The Fifth Element, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Bottle Rockets, The Royal Tenenbaums, Buffalo 66, American Beauty, Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, V for Vendetta, Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, Iron Monkey, Drunken Master II, etc...
Television:
Northern Exposure, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Quantum Leap, X-Files, South Park, Monster Garage, Junkyard Wars, Mythbusters, The Simpsons (until about 4 years back, then it became very hit or miss, or miss or miss), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Gilmore Girls (a guilty pleasure), Battlestar Galactica (the new one), Doctor Who (both old and new), Arrested Development (why do the shows that I love get cancelled), The Powers That Be (a short lived political comedy), PBS shows (NOVA, History Detectives, Antique Roadshow), Cowboy Bebop, Late Night With Conan O'Brien (better when Andy was the sidekick, he was the best talk show sidekick in T.V. history!), My Name Is Earl, Scrubs, The Daily Show (I don't have cable, but love the hell out of this show whenever I do see it), The Colbert Report, etc...
Books:
The Belgariad, The Malloreon, Polgara the Sorceress, Belgarath The Sorcerer, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (and the ensuing series), The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Orson Scott Card's Ender Series, Catcher In The Rye, Of Mice and Men, Fight Club, Lullaby: A Novel, the manga of Akira, the various Calvin and Hobbes anthologies, anything by Roald Dahl, the Harry Potter series, The Last Gang In Town (a biography on The Clash), several biographies by David McCullough, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look At the Right, Lies My Teacher Told Me, 1984, Animal Farm, the graphic novel of V for Vendetta, The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, Beat to Quarters (Horatio Hornblower), etc...
Heroes:
David Bowie, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, Joe Strummer (R.I.P.), John Cusack, and Al Franken. Admired but not worshipped.
