IN SHORT,
Laughing, learning, music, movies, and games. Breakfast for dinner, free refills, group photos, hot windy nights, making cats purr, being under piers or over piers (any preposition, really), sleeping with rain or a loud fan on, throwing paper airplanes at angel games, drawing troublemaking hearts on windshields of the cars of strangers, filling pinata with inappropriate things, timing it on the freeway to drive under a plane as it lands, and giggling at bingo when they call O 69.IN LONG,
Accents; Air hockey (you will lose); Amusement Parks; Art; Bar games (pool, foosball, digging through a date's purse while she goes potty); the Beach (bodysurfing); Bike Path; Board & Card Games; Bookstores; Bowling; Cats; Cereal; Chess; live Comedy (UCB, Groundlings, Bang, Troubies, I-O West); Concerts; Conspiracy theory; Coupons; DVD extras; Fairs (pregnant pigs, things that really shouldn't be fried); Filmmaking (home movies); Film revivals (Hollywood Forever, New Beverly); Freckles; Friends (I've known all of Top 8 since the 80s); Girly icy drinks (strawberry margarita, pina colada, the mango tori amos tampon princess--- WITH umbrella); Glaucoma medication; Group games (charades, pictionary, whose finger is it anyway?); Halloween; Hiking (San Gabriel, Yosemite, Irvine Spectrum parking lot); Hoop earrings; Horse races; Ice skating; Las Vegas; Lists (um, duh?); Lucid dreaming; Making out; Maps; Maps of places to Make out; Mario Kart 64 and Mario Party; Mini golf; Museums ; Music (appreciation, trivia, creating); Open bars; Parades; Phoenix (frequent trips); Photography; Pigtails; Ping-pong; Plays; Popular culture; Pranks; Programatic architecture; Racquetball; Rain while I sleep; Rooftops and balconies; Sciences; Sightseeing (2nd largest ball of mud); Snowboarding; Tennis; Thrift stores; Travel; Volleyball (sand or gym); Water slides; Your little sister
I'd like to meet:
Larry David, Sarah Silverman, Lorne Michaels, Amy Poehler, Martin Scorsese, Olivia Newton John, David Spade, Christina Ricci, Snoop Dogg, Whitney Port, Matt Groening, Miho Hatori, Quentin Tarantino, Eddie Izzard, Kathleen Hanna, Bill Cosby, Ivanka Trump, David Letterman, Lollipop Girl from Kung Fu Hustle, and your little sister.I get along best with sincere people who don't take themselves seriously. Bonus points for being dorky (or geeky, but not necessarily wacky), with common interests (music/tv/film), common hobbies (volleyball, chess, N64 Mario Kart), or common irrational fears (that Snuggle bear from the old fabric softener commercials).
Music:
Beatles, Beck, Ween, Cake, Led Zeppelin, Ben Folds, Beastie Boys, Cibo Matto, Zero 7, Pink Floyd, Madonna, Boingo, Feist, Kanye West, Rutles, No Doubt, Eminem, Moby, Smiths, Sinatra, Sheryl Crow, Meat Puppets, Ivy, Sade, Crystal Method, Weezer, Strokes, Stevie Wonder, Dilated Peoples, Depeche Mode, B52s, Bob Marley, Thievery Corp, Sublime, Seal, Lenny Kravitz, Madness, Tenacious D, Steely Dan, Kostars, DJ Shadow, Jem, plus a wide range of more embarassing stuff (Debbie Gibson, Bread, Erasure, Mancini, Kenny Rogers), classic rock, 80s, the stuff on MTV2 Subterranean and KCRW, and much more. Oh, and Billie Holiday ("I luff him!").
Movies:
Jaws, Vacation, Kung Fu Hustle, the Untouchables, Kill Bill, Caddyshack, Eternal Sunshine, Amelie, True Romance, Princess Bride, Swingers, Say Anything, Clueless, Planes Trains and Autos, Grease, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Poltergeist, Wizard of Oz, Close Encounters, the Jerk, Raising Arizona, Iron Giant. The weirder stuff (War of the Gargantuas, Man Bites Dog, Capricorn One, They Went That a Way and That a Way) is in my Top 100 Movies listed in Blog.
Television:
Flight of the Conchords, Lost, SNL, Best Week Ever, the Soup, South Park, Simpsons, the Office, 30 Rock, Jeopardy, Human Giant, Reno 911, Simpsons, Subterranean, Top Design, Top Chef, Inside the Actors' Studio, Huell Howser, the Hills, sports highlights, and those hbo america undercover documentaries (i.e. real sex taxicab shock prison hooker ecstacy autopsies 8). Nothing with audience laughter, except Seinfeld or Friends repeats.
Books:
Mostly nonfiction (travel guides, books of lists, maps, dictionaries, biographical); humor (the onion is amazing)
Memorable reads: Monster at the End of This Book (first book); Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James & Giant Peach (inspiration to write); Watchmen (favorite book ever!); my Stephen King/William Goldman/John Irving phase in my late teens, Clive Barker's Weaveworld; Alive; Rules of Attraction; Welcome to the Monkeyhouse
Heroes:
Charlie Brown and Wile E. Coyote. And everyone puts their grandfather so I'll do that, too. Your grandfather.
