I like to be around people. I don't like to speak, generally. I like it when I watch TV with my sister and she gets all of the jokes I make and laughs really hard; I haven't found anything else like that. I like to explain and describe situations. I like to be useful and to get shit done. I find few things useful and little shit worth doing. I like to drink enough that I think that mean, stupid people (myself included) are big-hearted and interesting. I like absurdity. I like to dance. I like to read accessible academic and scientific writing from diverse fields. I like it when people look at me or talk to me as if they think I'm smart, interesting, attractive. I like feel-good bullshit when it's good enough that I fall for it. I like driving in my car and listening to the radio really loud. I am fascinated by gender. I love the idea of modern myths: there aren't very many Eskimo words for snow; lemmings don't commit suicide; we use much more than 15% of our brains.
Night shift nurses!Or, heck, anybody else who's drinking coffee at 4 in the morning and not because they have to drive home.And, um... Hitmen. Or whatever you're calling yourselves this decade. What's it like? Do you get to wear cool hats? Who's your orthodontist?
Listening to music is extremely important to me. However, I could live without talking about music.
My favorites? I'm scared. I've discovered that things I once loved are often stupid on revisit. Jacob's Ladder, Suicide Club, Henry Fool. The Thief, the Cook, his Wife and her Lover. Aliens. I'll add as more occur to me. Just don't hold it against me if those are stupid movies. You may be right. I haven't seen them in a long time.
Between homes, I briefly have television again. I like to watch Project: Runway. While I most recently enjoyed anime series, I no longer do. Sometimes I watch channel UW which has televised lectures. I like the Colbert Report a lot too.
See movies above. What's the abbreviated Latin phrase? I used to play D&D, I should know that shit. So, I've come back through my life to several books: Catcher in the Rye (which I am now sick of and hate), Nine Stories (the Laughing Man, especially), Watership Down, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Catch-22. Recently I discovered Dickens, and am especially fond of A Tale of Two Cities. Mostly, like I said in "interests," I read nonfiction: philosophy, biology, physics, sociology. Past that, I mostly read comic books. What are my favorite comics? Well, Clowes, duh, but that's too old and unspecific. I really like Trondheim, especially ALIEEN. I like "By the Numbers," by some European people I don't know. I really like some Japanese horror comics: Hideshi Hino, Junji Ito. I like Greg Rucka and Robert Kirkman.
Right now, I'm reading The Ascent of Mind online. It's really interesting. It's about evolution and cognition.
I just finished reading (7/31) "Gambling with Abortion" . Very well written. (See also "The hostile media phenomenon: Biased Perception and Perceptions of Media Bias in Coverage of the 'Beirut Massacre'" as necessary.)
The Judge-Penitent. Diogenes. Sydney Carter.