So, is this about mine or yours? I guess the important thing is that we both have them, not as much what they are; I mean, people have to like something and be all about it, and be willing to accept the interests of others, or I am not gonna have much in common with you. This a lot more important then having matching interests to me.
Ok, if I have to answer, I like to know how things are, how they work, how that effects other things, how to make the pool balls go in the holes, what is really going on, what other people see looking at these same things, and just about anything you can name.
I can fix a car, a computer, dinner, ripped pants, the drywall after a party, and a mean margarita. If I don't know about something, I am likely interested in it.
People who make me think and feel.
I love music. It is very much one of the things in life that are GOOD in a way that is not just the absense of discomfort. I will admit that I am a fairly moody person - not a secret anyway - and a big range of music finds a place in my moods. It would be easier to list the things in music I dislike then to list the things I like. That said, that sort of negative definition is pretty empty so.... here goes what I put in the last few lists I made:
Prince, Tool, The Police, James Taylor, Everclear, Happy Trance (misc), The Strokes, Chris Isaak, Liz Phair, Emmet Swimming, Natalie Merchant, Delerium, Ming and FS, XTC, Orbital, Seal, Radiohead, Placebo, Pigface, NIN, Ani DiFranco, Lou Reed and John Cale stuff, Otis Redding, Creedence, Joan Jett, Pink Flyod, Charlie Parker, War (three fingers and a smile baby), Clint Black, Willie Nelson, James Brown, Right Said Fred, Beck, Fiona Apple, The Fugees, KMFDM, Minsitry, Nora Jones, The Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Bjork, Cake, Godspeed YBE, They Might Be Giants, David Bowie, Bubba Sparxx, UB 40, Gorillaz, and I could keep going for a bit, but I am getting bored and am gonna move on. If it sets things straight, last week I listened to a lot of bagpipes, choral music, and classical.
... and if I like something you don't, or you are all about something I am not, you might consider that I am hearing something different then what you hear, like everyone else.
I will admit I like some. Things that stick out? The Big Labowski ... Office Space ... Don Juan DeMarco ... Doctor Strangelove ... Zorba the Greek. I am at a loss to tell you what these movies have in common, but they all struck me as saying something that spoke to me.
I really do not watch television. I would prefer to read, build a barn, or whatever. The only times I enjoy watching TV is when I do it with other people, and they enjoy it.I do own two ... and that seems silly. If you want a TV cheap let me know.
Why can't these questions have simple answers? Rather then list books, I am gonna try and articulate what it is in a book that will make me read it more then once. In fiction, I cannot get into books unless I can like at least some of the characters involved. Vivid, even surreal worlds, pushed to me through a page, the use of fiction to explore and illustrate aspects of life it is hard to discribe without the ability to freely reshape circumstances, anything that can make me laugh, hurt, or otherwise live and feel, these all do it for me. Here are some of the authors I have kept - Herman Hesse, Umberto Eco, Gene Wolfe, China Melville, Glen Cook, Frank Herburt, Steven Brust. As to what I read more often then not, it is whatever I have in front of me - when I am on a reading binge I eat a few books a day. It makes it hard to be that choosey."No, this isn't a place for me. That is how we will lose our speech, how our dreams will turn to mist. The way our adolescence, so tedious we worried it would last forever, evaporated."- and that guy too. Beautiful, but it hurts my head. Haruki Murakami.
Striking out here - the whole concept of heroism is a hard one for me. I mean, what makes a hero anyway? If you look at the examples you get from culture, they seem to be people who are removed at some level from real life, or who are just normal people who do their damnedest to get by and do the right thing no matter what. If you are looking for the second, I know plenty of those. If you want the first, go watch TV. See the above.