I'd like to meet:
People who believe that friendships mean more than just seeing one another at parties.
And no - Myspace doesn't count.
Music:
In no particular order: Godspeed You! Black Emperor; Rachel's; Animal Collective; The Fall; Philip Glass; Mull Historical Society; all things Rob Crow; The Sea and Cake; the entire Slabco roster; The Robot Ate Me; The One AM Radio; Mogwai; Prince Paul; Astronaut; Arab Strap; The Olivia Tremor Control; The Blood Group; Mia Doi Todd; MF Doom; Madlib; Madvillain; Pulp; The Eaves; The High Llamas; Plush (Liam Hayes that is); Mr Quintron; David Byrne; Brian Eno; Scrabbel; Rocketship; Mates of State; The Hit Machine; Broadcast; Cat and Dog Dialogue; Kool Keith; The Clientele; Okkerville River; Palaxy Tracks; Polvo; Lali Puna; Destroyer; Enon; Empress; Havergal; Low; Dirty Three; Make Believe; Make Up; all Stephen Merritt; Mark Eitzel; Marmoset; Red House Painters; Microphones; Swirlies; The Swords Project; Questions in Dialect; Pillowcase; Tarentel; Unwed Sailor; Vehicle Flips; Viva Voce; Kings of Convenience; King of Woolworths; Yakuzi; Rufus Wainwright; Kraftwerk; Negativland; Six Organs of Admittance; Gary Higgins; Jose Gonzalez; The Zephyrs; Serge Gainsbourg; Blackalicious; Cerberus Shoal; Yuppie Flu; Thanksgiving; Dirty Projectors; Hush Arbors; Wooden Wand; Talk Talk; all sorts of Bossa Nova and Tropicalismo, especially Tom Ze; Television; Thee More Shallows; all things Neil Halstead; Vermont; Elastica; Blondie; Destroyer; Neutral Milk Hotel; Macha; Bedhead; and on and on and on into oblivion
Movies:
Takashi Miike, Akira Kurosawa, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Hayao Miyazaki, David Lynch, Woody Allen, Terry Gilliam, Christopher Guest
Television:
The Office; all three PBS stations in LA, especially when Nova or Now are on; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Arrested Development (R.I.P.); Monty Python
Where the hell is the "Radio" section?
Favorite Radio Stations: WTUL; KPFK; KPCC; KXLU
Books:
Lots of design books - architecture, furniture, theory, sustainable, etc...; David Sedaris; Dave Eggers; Kazuo Ishiguro; T.H. White; Terry Pratchett; Roald Dahl; comics and graphic novels; too much manga; Bill Bryson; Fernando Pessoa; more and more...