traveling around town or around the globe, talking with people, constructive arguments, playing pool, languages, the brain, yoga, beer, red wine, japanese school lunches, dancin' anytime anywhere, motorcycles, the physics of the body, freethinkers, podcasts, cheese [the kind you eat and the adjective used to describe corny, sentimental shit], foodstuffs [creating em and devouring em], martial arts in its many forms [jiu jitsu, muay thai, judo, wing chun, ufc, pride, k-1], NPR, sociology, anthropolgy, marvels of nature, snowboarding, scuba diving, making out, taking pictures with strangers. i've recently been enjoying milk and badminton.
someone who excels at cooking mexican cuisine, especially chili rellenos, carne asado and tacos, and wants to bring their skills to my kitchen. now.
hot hot heat, kings of leon, the decemberists, kaiser chiefs, the faint, postal service, dj shadow, built to spill, sun kil moon, the cars, radiohead, american football, nina simone, white stripes, al green, the delgados, carla bruni, bettie serveert, feist, the beach boys, the bravery, neutral milk hotel, the shins, dirty booty with a good beat, talking heads, the stills, the smiths, brazzaville, flaming lips, franz ferdinand, pete yorn, roxy music, interpol, jawbreaker, thievery corporation, jeff buckley, kings of convenience, n.e.r.d, peaches, scissor sisters, broken social scene, the weakerthans, st. germaine, heartless bastards, radiohead, thom yorke, sufjan stevens, devendra banhart, beaulah, etta james, dengue fever, giant drag, goldfrapp, iron&wine, komeda
amelie, american history x, goonies, waking life, 28 days later, willy wonka [yes, i know that's technically not the title.], city of lost children, cube, donnie darko, running man, fist of legend, the motorcycle diaries, the house of yes, secretary, velvet goldmine, the virgin suicides, hustle and flow, suicide kings, raising arizona
i haven't watched my tv in months...well, i've watched dust gather on it. it sits in my living room, as opposed to the garage, where it would be used just as often. it holds my clock, lamp and plant.
do you remember being rewarded with personal pan pizzas in elementary school if you read books? then in high school and university the pizza quit coming. i was resentful. in the last couple years i've REALLY started reading again; this time my intentions are knowledge and entertainment, not pepperoni. freakonomics, memoirs of a geisha, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, great gatsby, the sun also rises, anything david sedaris cooks up, toni morrison, robert ludlam, shanghai baby, do robots dream of electric sheep, haruki murakami, anthem [which was bizarre in light of the japanese sociological paradigm that i'm living in], a million little pieces [who cares if it's fiction?! it's good. get the fuck over it.], dan brown's madness, dictionaries, travel guides, the curious incident with the dog after midnight, paulo cohelo [eleven minutes, veronica decides to die], hanif kureishi [intimacy, the black album], the geography of thought, jeffery eugenides [virgin suicides, middlesex], extremely loud and incredibly close
that hiker who severed his own arm when he was rock climbing and a boulder pinned it-eeek, single mothers, people who stand up/scream/fight for what they believe in, those who exhibit courage when faced with a situation/condition that society deems abnormal