music (alt, brit rock, indie genres, musicianship), instruments (in chrono order, learned: piano, cello, flute, guitar, drums), the arts (graphic, interior design), fashion (haute couture, DIESEL, GSUS), traveling/getting lost in translation, canines, health/medicine (art/music therapy), uh SC football? kick boxing, j cuisine, munch from trader joe's, things like noren, onsen, tatami, edamame, geta, ramune, and matcha of course!
I'd like to meet:
All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say: "Here at last is the thing I was made for." - The Problem of Pain, CS Lewis
Music:
Aqualung, BEATLES, Ben Folds, Bloc Party, B Dylan, the Bravery, B Springsteen, Chantal Kreviazuk, Chris Tomlin, Christopher Williams, COLDPLAY, Collective Soul, the CURE, Damien RICE, Dashboard, Dave Matthews, David Crowder, David Gray, DEATH CAB, Delirious, DEPECHE Mode, Five For Fighting, Fleetwood Mac, Foo Fighters, Gavin DeGraw, Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, Interpol, JARS OF CLAY, Jeff BUCKLEY, Jet, Jimmy Eat World, Joseph ARTHUR, Keane, the KILLERS, Lifehouse, Linkin Park, Matchbox, Morrissey, MUSE, New Order, Nickel Creek, NO DOUBT, OASIS, OMD, PET SHOP Boys, Postal Service, Psychedelic FURS, Radiohead, Ryan Adams, Sixpence, Skillet, Smashing PUMPKINS, Snow Patrol, Something Like Silas, Stereophonics, Straylight Run, the Strokes, Sublime, SWITCHFOOT, Telecast, Ten Shekel Shirt, Third Day, Third Eye Blind, Thom Yorke, Todd Agnew, Train, Travis, Trent Dabbs, Tyler James, U2, Vertical Horizon, Wallflowers, Weezer
on a frequent website-visiting basis with: coldplay, the cure, d crowder (esp mike d the bassist's blog), death cab, depeche m, jars, lifehouse, oasis, switchfoot, U2
some artists i've enjoyed seeing: green day, jimmy eat world, dave matthews, no doubt, switchfoot, delirious, wallflowers, goo goo dolls, d crowder, jars, linkin park, third day, interpol, the CURE, the honorary title, keane, U2 in NJ, OASIS in boston, trent dabbs, tyler james, disappointed by candy, billy corgan, COLDPLAY @ msg NY, british sea power, the killers, lifehouse, james blunt, RADIOHEAD & DEATH CAB @ the greek, berkeley, JOE ARTHUR, U2 & PEARL JAM, HONOLULU 12/09/06! MCR, MUSE, Smashing Pumpkins @ the Fillmore (very much so like it live & seeing their gear)
currently use: taylor 314ce, mustang bass, roland vdrums
AM/FM audio: kroq 106.7, indie 103.1, 710ESPN (colin cowherd, dave dameshek, dave denholm), live 105
Movies:
all of H Bogart's and J Cusack's (esp High Fidelity), Lost in Translation, Before Sunset, Garden State, Babel, Walk the Line
Television:
HOUSE, Curb Your Enthusiasm, SATC, Scrubs, Will and Grace,
Pete Carroll TV
Books:
Relevant Magazine
"Broken Music" by Sting
"Finding God in Sunsets and Sushi" by David Crowder
"The Way I was Made" by Chris Tomlin
"U2 Show" by Diana Scrimgeour
"Blue Like Jazz" by Donald Miller
"U2 & i" by Anton Corbijn
"FIFTY" by DIESEL
"U2 by U2" by U2
Heroes:
JC, Paul Hewson (aka Bono), David Evans (The Edge), A Clayton, L Mullen Jr, J Cash, B Dylan, Chris Martin, Noel Gallagher, Carter Beauford, Anton Corbijn, Yoshio Taniguchi, John Cusack, Conan O'Brien, "Jack McFarland" (in character), Kaneshiro Takeshi, & the Fight Song should tell you that I believe in CARROLLOSOPHY!
"Diesel is not my company, it's my life." - Renzo Rosso
and last but not least, my rottie Bugsy
