going to concerts of bands that very few people know, eating Chipotle at least once a week, watching movies that involve film noir elements or superheroes, ultimate frisbee, reading (on the train or off), pub quizzes, Chicago, comedy in general, cardio kickboxing, Amazon.com binges, eating all the wasabi with my sushi, jogging, thrift stores, corn mazes, randomly climbing things (walls, trees, roofs, whatever), jokes at the expense of Dungeons and Dragons players (I will always laugh at a +2 charisma joke), being excessively liberal, all things Mac, road trips, apple cider donuts, dinner parties, BBQing on a nice fall day, hay rides, riding my bike, anything that takes up time on the computer while I am at work, jazz, Brazilian jazz, Cuban jazz, roller derbies, dining alfresco, Sudoku puzzles, people who are also terrified of sharks, and my obsession: the ancient art of KARAOKE!
Here is a list, off the top of my head:
- people from Chicago
- law school students
- anyone who is or has ever been a mascot
- musicians interested in starting a novelty band with me
- Gary Larson
- anyone who laughs at inappropriate things (bonus points if you laugh out loud and get shot dirty looks by others)
- tea drinkers
- T-ball players
- teetotalers (just to say I've met one)
This will continue to grow as I get bored.
New Pornographers, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Rilo Kiley, Weezer, Bloc Party, Carbon Leaf, Guster, Sahara Hotnights, Hot Hot Heat, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Metric, The Shins, Jenny Lewis, Postal Service, Feist, The Arcade Fire, The Sounds, Sufjan Stevens, Architecture in Helsinki, Eddie From Ohio, Old 97s, The Faint, Sigur Ros, The Decemberists, The Shout Out Louds, The Long Winters, The Bravery, Stars, Zero 7, Clumsy Lovers, The Jayhawks, Ivy, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, A.C. Newman, Goldfrapp, Morcheeba, Ambulance Ltd, The Strokes, Frou Frou, Elastica, Belle and Sebastian, Jurassic 5, Snow Patrol, Immaculate Machine, Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos, The White Stripes, Camera Obscura, Death Cab For Cutie, Mates of State, Fischerspooner, Björk, Patty Griffin, The Magnetic Fields, Imogen Heap, Neutral Milk Hotel, Blonde Redhead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Le Tigre, The Dandy Warhols, Gotan Project, The Rentals, Manu Chao, Sleater-Kinney, The Cardigans, The Pipettes, The Knife, Aimee Mann, and pretty much everything that came out in the 80s
Wet Hot American Summer, Royal Tenenbaums, Memento, Annie Hall, Fletch, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, Snatch, Amelie, Swingers, About a Boy, This is Spinal Tap, Big Lebowski, Usual Suspects, Lost in Translation, Back to the Future, Zoolander, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Brick, the X-Men movies, the Spiderman movies, Ghostbusters (1 and 2), The Sting, Chinatown
Arrested Development, Entourage, Lost, Heroes, Studio 60, Veronica Mars, 24, Alias, Nip/Tuck, Mr. Show, Da Ali G Show, The Simpsons (seasons 2 through 7-ish), Daily Show, Freaks and Geeks, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Office (both versions), Firefly, My Name Is Earl, The State, and against all my best intentions, I really like Project Runway
High Fidelity, Franny and Zooey, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, On the Road, Catcher in the Rye, Slaughterhouse V (anything Vonnegut, really), Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Harry Potter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, anything by David Sedaris, The Princess Bride, Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Middlesex, Thank You For Smoking, His Dark Materials trilogy
The Green Hornet