Times which are either cold stone mellow or hyped.
Calling my boat a Yacht when talking to people who haven't seen my boat.
Getting hopped up on cereal.
Everyone. All at once.
People who refer to themselves or others as "dapper."
People with passion and ambition - preferably for things I could also get excited about. But who don't let them stop them from having fun - or better yet - have fun following those passions and ambitions.
The man who can perfectly rock a pink shirt with a popped collar and a faux/mo-hawk. This includes not being a (complete) asshole. The ability to rock a full beard is a plus.
People who take chips on their sandwiches.
Someone to rent the fifth room in my house - it finally has a ceiling and I patched that hole to hell in the wall that I found after ripping out the door to nowhere. Really, its a great room though, nice view, you should pay me to live there.
Anyone who's up to learn how to kiteboard ... in the Baltimore Harbor.
Time travelers.
Those with more to say than "Hi! we should talk," or perhaps the only slightly less common, "We should get naked and watch each other get off," or those with the ability to actually spell out "you" and "your," as well as differentiate correctly between "your" and "you're."
As with everything in life - be engaging, make an effort, or don't bother.
ACDC, Andre 3000, Arctic Monkeys, At The Drive In, Blink, Bloodhound Gang, Brand New, Cars, Clumsy Lovers, Color Gray, Cowboy Mouth, Cheap Trick, Common Rider, Deftones, Don McClean, Double Dagger, Fatboy Slim, Flogging Molly, Fall Out Boy, Frank Zappa, Gogol Bordello, Gordon LIghtfoot, Gorillaz, Hum, Imogen Heap, James Brown, Joy Division, Less Than Jake, Lucero, Mama Cass, Materials, Matisyahu, Mars Volta, Millencolin, Misfits, Morissey, Mos Def, Murder City Devils, New Pornographers, Nurses, OAR, Op Ivy, Paul Anka, Phil Collins, Pixies, Placebo, Postal Service, Primus, Prodigy, QOTSA, Rammstein, RHC, Roots, Run DMC, Save Ferris, Sev, Sigur Ros, Smiths, Sneaker Pimps, Soul Coughing, Stevie Nicks, Ten Foot Pole, Tenacious D, Toasters, Tom Waits, Transplants, White Stripes, White Zombie, Zep.
39 Pounds of Love, 2001, Abyss, American Psycho, Blade Runner, Boondock Saints, Clockwork Orange, Contact, Dark City, Dune (sci-fi versions), GATTACA, Garden State, Guitar Wolf, I [heart] Huckabees, Office Space, Sin City, Starship Troopers, The Kayak Roll, Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Total Recall, V for Vendetta, Wedding Crashers.
That dusty box in the corner? I threw a brick through it last time I watched the evening news and haven't missed it yet. I do download Battlestar Galactica, John Stewart and Lost from iTunes though, and have Simpsons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Sea Lab 2021 on DVD. This also leads to me frequenting pubs to catch ESL games, but thats OK as football calls for a pint anyhow.
Favorites: Adam's Hitchhikers Guide, Asimov's Foundation series, Card's Ender books, anything Clarke, Diamond's Collapse, Duany, Plater-Zyberk and Speck's Suburban Nation, Hamilton's Mythology, Hawking's A Brief History of Time, anything Heinlein, Herbert's Dune series, Kerrane and Yagota's Art of Fact, Kynoch's Teach Yourself Doric, The Mabinogion, Niven's Ringworld, Orwell's 1984, Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Rand's Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead, Reynold's Revelation Space, GB Shaw's Misalliance, Sturluson's Edda, Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, Zahn's Icarus Hunt
Currently Reading: Blish's Cities in Flight, Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, Lonely Planet's Australia and New Zealand, Glennon's Water Follies, Funes' Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance.
Ami Ankilewitz, Anaxagoras, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Leonardo da Vinci, Andres Duany, Albert Einstein, Harlan Ellison, Galileo Galilei, Alexandra Hansen, Stephen Hawking (doubly so), Hippodamus, Owen Meany, Friedrich Nietzsche, Chris Onstad, Jeff Speck, Zarathustra, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.