I'd like to meet:
You... probably, if you have something to offer and are not a complete waste of space.
Music:
Against Me!, Bad Religion, Beck, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Prince, Social Distortion, Ani DiFranco, The Clash, Bright Eyes, Flogging Molly, Dinosaur Jr., Bob Dylan, Metric, My Morning Jacket, Morphine, Clutch, Dr. Dre, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Thrills, The Von Bondies, The Mescalleros, Neil Young, Jack White, Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, Lou Barlow, Kanye West, Howlin Wolf, Willie Nelson, Buddy Guy, The Black Keys, U2, Silversun Pickups, The Animals, Elvis Costello, Pink, Wyclef Jean, depends on my mood...Guilty Pleasures: BEP and Jack JohnsonCurrently in Rotation: Straylight Run, Feist, Smashing Pumpkins, Broken Social Scene
Movies:
The Philidelphia Story, Frank Capra, Hitchcock, Orson Wells, the Red Curtain Trilogy, Charlie Kaufman (especially Eternal Sunshine), Stranger than Fiction, Bringing Up Baby, Taxi Driver, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Mulhullond Drive, A Clockwork Orange, V for Vendetta, 300, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, High Noon, 12 Angry Men, Casablanca, Sunset Boulevard, Amelie, Chinatown, The Great Dictator, Children of Men, Babel, Capote, Trainspotting, Big Fish, My Fair Lady, Breakfast at Tiffanny's, , Gangs of New York, Mean Girls, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Royal Tenenbaums, Easy Rider, Rocky, The Natural, Lost in Translation, Broken Flowers,Little Miss Sunshine, A History of ViolenceGuilty Pleasures: Summer Big Budget Blockbuster Action Movies --- But the plot still needs to make sense and the characters still need to act on motivation...
Television:
CNN Headline News, News Mix (completely addictive), Law and Order, the NFL, 24, Heroes, the History Channel, Food Network, TLC, Best Week Ever, Beauty and the Geek, NCISOn DVD: Carnivale. Rome, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica MarsGuilty(est) Pleasure: the occasional Pimp My Ride
Books:
This one is hard...The Great Gatsby, On the Road, J.D. Salinger (all of them), Howl, Leaves of Grass, The Wasteland, The Sun Also Rises, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Hero With a 1,000 Faces, Arabian Nights, Atonement, Middlesex, Life of Pi, The Watchmen, V for Vendetta (better than the movie goes without saying), The Stranger, Invisible Man (Ellison not Wells), anything by Neal Gaiman, Oscar Wilde, Shakespearian Tragedies and Comedies, The Canterbury Tales, the comics of Ed Brubaker, Gulliver's Travels, Animal Farm, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas... there are too many to keep going!Guilty Pleasures: My comics and the random mystery/spy novel.