reading, writing, Detroit, coffee and coffee shops, walking (even in LA), music (listening, playing, writing), a turned-off TV, spicy bloody marys, Brit pubs, not losing or destroying more sunglasses, making up new words, lists, cracking girls' knuckles, Powell's Bookstore, spinner rings, dill pickle flavored sunflower seeds, bad names for bands, black and forest green, bowling, drinking games for bowling, tennis, changing popular song lyrics, greatest iPod in the charted universe, the onion crossword (and trying to not google-cheat through the pop culture references), eating all the marshmallows out of otherwise gross breakfast cereals, scrabble, not following recipes leading to food ingredient experiments, alphabetical order, changes in pattern, black fingernail polish, finding similarities in disparate things, being a nerd.
about you:People who rarely confuse patience with indifference or kindness with weakness.Readers. Writers. Thinkers. Learners. Talkers. Listeners.Those who believe Explaining Excusing, and Understanding Forgiving.
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air, arcade fire, as tall as lions, atreyu, bauhaus, black heart procession, brazilian girls, bright eyes, bullet for my valentine, concrete blonde, the cure, dandy warhols, darker my love, dead can dance, dears, death cab for cutie, death from above 1979, deftones, depeche mode, doves, dragonforce, dresden dolls, editors, the faint, glassjaw, hearts of black science, i love you but i've chosen darkness, interpol, joy division, killswitch engage, kloven, lcd soundsystem, lords of acid, ministry, murder by death, new order, new york dolls, nin, peter bjorn and john, pixies, postal service, the rapture, replacements, sheila divine, she wants revenge, sigur ros, sisters of mercy, slipknot, spoon, stone roses, 36 crazyfists, tool, trivium, velvet underground, virgin black, tom waits, west indian girl, white stripes, wolfmother, the zombies, and various world music and jazz
Movies that make me think or laugh (preferably both): A Beautiful Mind, Anchorman, Being John Malkovich, The Big Lebowski, Clay Pigeons, Deconstructing Harry, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 40 Year Old Virgin, Fargo, Haiku Tunnel, I Heart Huckabees, Magnolia, Pi, Royal Tannenbaums, Rushmore, Swingers, Team America, This is Spinal Tap, Waking Life, What the Bleep Do We Know?
A Confederacy of Dunces, The Historian, House of Leaves, Infinite Jest, Life of Pi, The Midnight Disease, The Paradox of Choice, Rise of the Creative Class, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and pretty much anything by these people: Douglas Adams, Charles Bukowski, Fritjof Capra, Dave Eggers, Jack Kerouac, Jonathan Lethem, Chuck Palahniuk, Steven Pinker, Tom Robbins, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hunter S. Thompson, David Foster Wallace