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I'd like to meet:

You're creative and smarter than the average bear and you live within 50 miles of Houston, TX or intend to visit there. You're a little crazy. Ok maybe you're a lot crazy, but they haven't put you in a straight-jacket yet.You read. Maybe not constantly, but when you have time. When you do it's probably not a book that one can buy at airports and grocery stores. When you say that you're open minded, that doesn't mean you thought about voting for the other party once, it means you're genuinely open to ideas that others find offensive. Sometimes others find you offensive, or would if you told them what you think.

Music:

Like many people in the post-napster world, I listen to the whole spectrum. I'm a big Lacuna Coil fan from way back. Also very much into Blue Oyster Cult and Save Ferris

Here's some bands on the dark side of things that I'm into: Apocalyptica, Apoptygma Berzerk, Covenant, Cruxshadows, Delerium, Depeche Mode, Nightwish, Paradise Lost, Pigface, Project Pitchfork, Silke Bischoff, Siouxsie, Sisters of Mercy, Stabbing Westward, Tristania, Type O Negative, VNV Nation, Wolfsheim, Wumpscut, XPQ21

On the electronica side of things, I'm very into Lamb, I've been listening to Juno Reactor recently, and who doesn't like a little Portishead here and there

Then various alternative stuff, mostly from the 90's rather than since 2000: A Perfect Circle, Alice In Chains, definetely. Bowling For Soup, Bush, The Cardigans, Eve 6, Fiona Apple of course, Garbage, Lit, Live, Nirvana, Poe, Self, The Toadies!, Velvet Revolver

I also like Mr. Bungle and the Old 97s, and Love the Beatles, and No Doubt. I like early 'Trapped in a Box' era No Doubt, but it doesn't bother me that Gwen Stefani is now doing pop and hip-hop. I admit it, I actually do like that too.

I do listen to some metal and other harder stuff sometimes: Atari Teenage Riot, Black Sabbath, Drill, Iron Maiden, Megadeath, Sevendust

I like a lot of stuff from 1956-72, though not many particular groups stand out: The Doors!, The Turtles, Grassroots, Bill Withers, Roy Orbison

Also, these guys: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Tilt!, NOFX, Rancid, and various other such

Rock and especially Classic Rock from all the usual suspects. Later Jimi Hendrix and Guns N Roses get special mention. Styx and Rush both make me happy

I do enjoy "legitimate" music as well, including Bach, Dvorak, Grieg, and Bernstein

I enjoy jazz, blues, ska, and various latin stuff, but I'm not around any of that much.

So that's a pretty good list I guess, but far from complete.

Movies:

V for Vendetta

Interesting and Amusing Favorites: HERO, The Big Lebowski!, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Waking Life!, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Serendipity, Memento, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Groundhog Day

Directors: Any and all Kubrick, most Tim Burton, Coen Brothers

Comedy: Ghostbusters, State and Main, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Bubba Hotep, Monty Python, ...

Sci-Fi: Blade Runner, Forbidden Planet, The Matrix (just the first one)

Others: Godfather I and II, A Beautiful Mind, Silence of the Lambs, Deep Cover, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Mission, Battle Royal

Television:

Firefly!!
The Family Guy
Battlestar Galactica
random other stuff here and there.

I don't have a television, and don't intend to get one.

Books:

[slowly working on filling this out more]

some recent favorites:

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (even cooler than the title suggests) Millbrook by Art Kleps

Principia Discordia Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (If you haven't read it, ask to borrow one of my copies) Illuminatus! by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Aleister Crowley (, works of)

Novus Ordo Discordia / The Gospel of St. Pesher the Gardener Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson (the true story of when weathermen were cowboys, and one such man whose hubris lead him to insist that there was no storm) Isaac Asimov (, works of) Doug Adams (, works of) Robert Anton Wilson (, works of)

Heroes:

Darwin Garcia Bill Hicks Art Kleps Greg Hill Kerry Thornley Aleister Crowley