art (design,photography,sculpture, drawing, glassblowing, metal), shiny or sharp objects, caffeine, nicotine, piercings, tattoos, sabre fencing, anime, cyberpunk, food, motorcycles, books, baking, etc. i've decided to stop trying to be cool and settle for boring/geeky.
People who want to play scrabble with me, or teach me how to weld.
anything with a good drum/bass line: classic rock, rock, hard rock, some house, industrial, drum and bass, etc... a sampling of bands: pink floyd, led zepplin, ACDC, gin blossoms, tool, a perfect circle, rage against the machine, deftones, amon tobin, dj shadow, nine inch nails, , sublime, infected mushroom, godspeed you black emperor, kompact, depeche mode, system of a down, gorillaz/laika come home, death cab for cutie, the postal service, the new thom yorke album.
action, sci-fi, film noir, thriller, pointless special effects and action. oh, and some anime. IE: se7en, resevoir dogs, pulp fiction, american history x, fight club, trainspotting, requiem for a dream, pi, momento, tank girl, ichi the killer, avalon, battle royale, coffee and cigarettes, audition, city of the lost children, 28 days later, city of god, seven samurai, kill bill, etc. list of recent/good anime: gantz, FF7: Advent Children, deathnote, ghost in shell, ergo proxy, requiem for the darkness, parprika.
csi, mythbusters, foster's home for imaginary friends.
[Recommendations: authors and favorite works [William Gibson- *burning chrome] [Neil Gaiman *american gods] [Jeff Noon *automated alice] [Kurt Vonnegut *dead eye dick/mother night] [JD Salinger *nine stories/intro to seymour] [Chuck Pahlinuk *anything but invisible monsters] [George Orwell *down and out in london and paris/whatever the one involving the apisdistra is] [Irvine Welsh *the book of short stories with smart cunt in it] [John Steinbeck *east of eden] [F. Scott Fitzgerald *tales of the jazz age] [Murakami] _________________________________________________ stuff i dont feel like remembering all the information for: [where stuff comes from] [zero: biography of a dangerous idea] [the not so big house(more revelatory then the bible)] [ishmael] [freakonomics] [ugly americans] [100 designs 100 years] [a cook's tour(?)- anthony bourdain] [ibid- not easy but worthwhile]
calatrava, richter, kareem rashid, etc. antiheroes: serial killers. my plan for infamy(in case i dont become a sucessful artist) is to go down in history as a nonwhite female serial killer