music, literature, surfing, writing, academia, art, dancing at trash, going to shows, friends, skating, the politics of psychedelia, poetry, prosody, philosophy, latin, trees, mountains, rivers, the ocean, independent publishing, love, surrealism, socialism, the beats, feminism, beaches, california, wears the trousers magazine www.thetrousers.co.uk, taoism, dadaism, zen, classicism, veganism, politics especially american politics, searching for the recipe for chocolate jamba juice - and then making a vegan version
I'd like to meet:
literature grad students; cute indie boys; those who are physically moved by (bebop) jazz - i'm talking heart pounding, hair standing up on the back of your neck; people who love russian literature; people who feel like henry james has taught them more about people and relationships than almost anyone they actually know; vegans; people who collect records; boys who wear scarves; academics; those who feel like going to rock shows on a regular basis is necessary to life; those who have read 'rayuela [hopscotch]'; people who find that sitting by the ocean centres them; those who understand that being crazy about indie rock doesn't mean you can't also seriously dig classical music, opera, or even pop music; artists; those who experienced discovering the writing of joyce and/or yeats as a fire in the head and the heart; those who can read latin; dreamers; people who like to walk in the mountains, or along rivers, or in the countryside; people who love central and south american literature; people who read and/or write poetry; those who read philosophy; surfers; people who have seen every episode of the simpsons at least twice; people who read the (greek and latin) classics; passionate people; those who had an existentialist, marxist, or beat phase when they were younger and are now past it - without having cynically rejected it as naivete; those who feel like being old-fashioned is not necessarily a bad thing; people who like to sit up all night talking about books and music over coffee or red wine; those who love american literature; armchair philosophers; those who are into independent publishing; the informed - those who read the paper and care about politics/what is going on in the world; lovers; people who love california; creative people; people who feel that being intellectual or bookish doesn't presuppose that one cannot also love to goof around or watch silly tv shows or play videogames all day sometimes; people who know that really good conversation is pretty much the most important thing in life.
Music:
the sea and cake, call and response, casiotone for the painfully alone, fugazi, kings of convenience, brahms, peaches, bart davenport, hendrix, the smiths, regina spektor, grizzly bear, sam cooke, the moore brothers, the pixies, broadcast, arthur lee/love, destroyer, sufjan stevens, dead kennedys, the clash, otis redding, honeycut, iron and wine, bird parker, soulwax, wagner, beethoven, satie, feist, david bowie, john martyn, bert jansch, joni mitchell, the zombies, marvin gaye, mingus, chopin, handel, the rolling stones, incredible string band, the ramones, the beatles, miles davis, subtle, caetano veloso, bob dylan, chilly gonzales, simon and garfunkel, gil scott heron, and too many more to fit.
most played this week:
Movies:
rushmore and all of wes anderson's other movies, cannibal! the musical, the three colours films especially blue, amelie and anything by jeunet actually, napoleon dynamite, the lord of the rings trilogy, girl on the bridge, intruder in the dust, adaptation and all of charlie kaufmann's movies, a room with a view, lots more but i can't think right now.
Television:
the simpsons, buffy, have i got news for you
Books:
cortazar 'hopscotch', henry james 'the golden bowl' and every other mark of the master's pen on the page, ellison 'juneteenth', kesey 'sometimes a great notion', salinger 'franny and zooey', simone de beauvoir 'the second sex', grassic gibbon 'sunset song', joyce 'ulysses', penn warren 'all the king's men', anything by camus, ginsberg, lowell, catullus, ovid, homer, hemingway, faulkner, neruda, eliot, wallace stevens, coleridge, o'hara, pope, scott fitzgerald, pessoa, brautigan, hoban, mailer, shakespeare, kerouac, keats, and like a million other writers/books
