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Cello,double bass, travel, music: listening to and writing and playing, kendo,Spain, Spanish literature, France, football (soccer), art (primarily Spanish, Italian, British, and Japanese artists), vintage posters, rock and roll, art by John William Waterhouse, Akira Kurosawa, reading, writing, sailing, Norman architecture,recycling, WW2, artillery, military history, the Cold War, hanging out, meeting new people, religion, Mayan and Aztec civilizations, Roman civilization, Kuwaiti culture, the archaic and the obsolete, family, foreign languages, blueberry muffins, developing countries, China,etymology, chemistry, vaccum filtering, stand-up comedy, rotary engines, automobile racing/tuning, compound synthesis, stem cell therapy, battleships, aero/thermodynamics, botany, physics, nuclear disarmament/non-proliferation, human rights,biology, oculoplastic surgery, automobiles, motorcycles, medieval militaries, medieval history, Wikipedia, fruit bats, desert hawks, nature, animal rights, being outside, working out, Age of Empires 2, deuce coupes, Vespas, the sea.
I'd like to meet:
francophone people. intelligent life. artists. nicola sirkis. audrey tautou. vosotros. annelise hesme. someone to cycle/run with to train for a European cycling tour
Music:
the Clash, the Cure, Indochine, Kubichek!, Manu Chao, Louise Attaque, Noir Desir, !!!, Air, Alizée, Andrew Bird, Art Brut, As I Lay Dying, Bach, Baroque music, At the Drive In, João Gilberto, Bebel Gilberto, A.C. Newman, Beck, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Ben Lee, Big Audio Dynamite, Bloc Party, Blur, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Brigitte Bardot, Broken Social Scene, Chin Up Chin Up, Chopin, Communique, Copy, Cursive, Daft Punk, David Bowie, Debussy, Depeche Mode, Earth Wind and Fire, Eastern Youth, Echo and the Bunnymen, Elefant, Eliot Fisk, Emily Loizeau, Everclear, Ferry Corsten, Film School, Fischerspooner, Fonzerelli, France Gall, Franz Ferdinand, Futureheads, Gang of Four, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Goldfrapp, Gregor Samsa, Interpol, Jacques Brel, Jacques Dutronc, Jim Noir, Johnny Hallyday, Joy Division, Kaolin, Kaskade, Kings of Convenience, LCD Soundsystem, Little Man Tate, Lola Ray, Longwave, Ludwig von Beethoven, M83, MC Solaar, Mewithoutyou, Miles Davis, Minus the Bear, Mogwai, Morrissey, Mozart, Mylene Farmer, Mylo, New Order, Nick Drake, Noir Desir, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, Ottmar Liebert, Paris Combo, Paul Oakenfold, Phantom Planet, Pinback, the Pixies, Ratatat, Rolling Stones, Royksopp, Santana, Sasha, Domenico Scarlatti, Schubert, Seu Jorge, Sex Pistols, Shout Out Louds, Smashing Pumpkins, the Smiths, Soda Stereo, Sound Team, Sparta, Stars, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, T-Pain (rofl), Telex, the Arcade Fire, the Beatles, the Decemberists, the Doors, the Embassy, the Faint, the Jam, the Ordinary Boys, the Perishers, the Pillows, the Rakes, the Ramones, the Rapture, the Rifles, the Streets, the Strokes, the Tough Alliance, the Who, Thievery Corporation, Thin White Duke, Third Eye Blind, Tito Puente, Travis, Two Lone Swordsmen, U2, Udo Lindenberg, Ultravox, Unearth, Weezer, Wolf Parade, Wynton Marsalis, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yo Yo Ma, Zero 7, Zero Assoluto, Psapp, baroque opera, And you will know us by the trail of the dead, Arctic Monkeys, Stereo Total, Fatal Bazooka, Band of Horses, the Streets, Travis, Van She, Yelle
Movies:
Edward aux mains d'argent, Indiana Jones films, Akira Kurosawa films, the Life Aquatic, Ferris Bueller's day off, war films, Vita è Bella, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Boondock Saints, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Jackie Chan films, The Last Samurai, School of Rock, Kill Bill, Spiderman, Big Fish, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, enter the dragon, el laberinto del fauno, six string samurai, Léon, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Television:
Ali G Show, Band of Brothers, Blackadder, Family Guy, History Channel, football (soccer) matches, the Office (BBC and NBC), Reno 911, Survivorman
Books:
1984, A Clockwork Orange, Allies at War, Brave New World, Of Paradise and Power, the Paradox of American Power, Le Petit Prince, anything Sherlock Holmes, mystery and detective novels, war novels, Tom Clancy, Carl Jung, Mario Puzo (kinda), Tolkien, the Art of War, Janson's History of Art 7th edition, Le Petit Nicolas
Heroes:
My parents, Bono, everyone from the Clash, Manu Chao, John Darnielle, Francis of Assisi, humanitarians, Lao Tzu, Napoleon Ier, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington, Robert Smith, Adam Smith, Jackie Chan, Zinedine Zidane, Diego Maradona, Pelé, the five good emperors, Hippocrates, Plato, Abu Ali Sina, Saladin, Nicola Sirkis, Ulises de la Cruz, Chuck Norris, Jean Reno, Gail Halvorsen
