yoga, reading, books, libraries, coffee, dark chocolate, magazine editing, padres baseball, independent and alternative choices of music, blending politics and spirituality and watching people squirm when I discuss them, creation care, climate change, partisan warfare, satire
I'd like to meet:
Anderson Cooper, Scott Westerfeld, David Gerrold so I can coerce him to finish the damn Chtorr book series, Dave Grohl, Stephen Colbert, Esther (from the bible), Jack Sparrow, and C.S. Lewis and Tolkein at the same time so we can discuss excellent english topics.
Music:
bjork, imogen heap, nick drake, dntel, iron & wine, sigur ros, royksopp, the decemberists, moby, tricky, portishead, massive attack, the album leaf, the black crowes, tom petty, duvall, coldplay, modest mouse, death cab for cutie, radiohead, beck, damien rice, alkaline trio, the new pornographers, everything but the girl, jeff buckley, ivy, sia, sneaker pimps, doves, zero 7, nouvelle vague, foo fighters, pete yorn, beth gibbons, the white stripes, mirah, jamiroquai, stereophonics, the cardigans, smoking popes, the appleseed cast, duvall, tom petty, tori amos, the sundays, depeche mode, the seatbelts, feist, Big Sonic Chill on fm94.9, anything Tyler sends me
Movies:
a little romance, gross point blank, lotr, the sting, the phantom tollbooth, lost in translation, garden state, seabiscuit, the black stallion, dune (the scifi channel series), the cat from outer space, the princess bride, the matrix, labyrinthe, legend, the godfather, casablanca, the last unicorn, that thing you do, the royal tenenbaums, white christmas
Television:
"I'm Right Behind You Now, Charlene", by Stephen and the Colberts
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family guy, food network, the daily show, the colbert report, old skool talk soup with john henson, six feet under, house, and sadly, american idol
Books:
wicked, the succession series, narnia, lotr, the left hand of darkness, tales from earthsea, the kushiel series, evolution's darling, the wheel of time series, dune, discworld series, neverwhere, american gods, the bible, island of the blue dolphins, poems by edgar allen poe, lord of the flies, all shakespeare, the odyssey, scarlet letter, silmarillion, sphere, velvet elvis, fahrenheit 451 (in fact Ray Bradbury rocks my socks), the chtorr series (but David Gerrold is a heartless bastard), the man who folded himself, ender's game, ender's shadow, the riftwar saga, disgrace, the tortilla curtain, neuromancer, the risen empire,
Currently reading:
1. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (for the last 12 months, it's a pretty crappy book, but unfortunately it's 800 pages)
2. Walking the Bible, which was made into some PBS special... by someone I can't remember, Bruce somethingsomething.
3. Heart of Darkness, which I neglected to finish in AP English. (sorry Beauvais)
