Philosophy, intellectual conversation, questioning the unknown and discovering the known, reading, nonconformity, literature, European culture, Wes Anderson, dressing up, living for myself, classical music, the fine arts, imported bier, handmade cigars, the great outdoors, jogging, getting up early, random adventures and travel, broadening my horizons, constantly learning something; building a stronger intellect, constructing my opinion, the snow, melancholy / depressing music, rainy gloom, long destinationless walks, continuously finding myself, espresso, making people laugh, the guitar, making a random friend, going to a symphony orchestra, writing *new*, driving around with the top down, coffee shops, following happiness and will, and (believe it or not) my career.
I'd like to meet:
Those with a philosophical mindframe and the unquenchable urge to find answers and know truths. I've unfortunately met few of these people. The majority seem to take the blue pill.
Music:
Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Beethoven, Bartok, Strauss Jr., Satie, Chopin, Rossini, Brahms, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Schubert, The Beatles, The Beta Band, Coldplay, Oasis, The Shins, Radiohead, Norah Jones, Sigur Ros, Jon Brion, Jeff Buckley, Sufjan Stevens, Elliot Smith, Dave Matthews, O.A.R., Nick Drake, Andrew Bird, Wilco, David Gray, Bob Dylan, Damien Rice, Aqualung, James Blunt, Iron and Wine, Frank Sinatra, Bright Eyes, Badly Drawn Boy, Amos Lee, The Chieftains, Portishead, The White Stripes, John Lennon, Roco DeLuca and the Burden, Ray Lamontagne, Massive Attack, The Flaming Lips, The Velvet Underground, The Decemberists, Mark Mothersbaugh, Rage Against the Machine, The Doors, The Strokes, The Grateful Dead, Phish, Bob Marley, Eric Hutchinson, Pink Floyd, The Hives, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Olivia Tremor Control, New Porographers, Koko Taylor, Eric Clapton, The Gypsey Kings, Rob Crabtree, Hilario Duran, Belle and Sebastian, the Kronos Quartet.
Movies:
A Clockwork Orange, Amadeus, James Bond Movies (pre Pierce Brosnan), Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic, The Blues Brothers, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ronin, Love Actually, Chocolat, Psycho, 12 Angry Men, Bourne Identity, The Godfather, The Seventh Seal, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Edge, Good Will Hunting, What About Bob, Snatch, Boondock Saints, Notting Hill, The Tailor of Panama, Motorcycle Diaries, Dead Poets Society, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Best of Travels in Europe with Rick Steves, Band of Outsiders, Bottle Rocket, Groundhog Day, Rear Window, 39 Steps, Broken Flowers, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, I Heart Huckabees.
Television:
I abhor Television. Look carefully at that word- it is not "adore" but in fact, the antithesis to "adore." As one of my friends put it, "television is the opiate of the masses." Well put, Seth.
Books:
I have read and will be reading the books of the following: Plato, Aristotle, Russell, Kundera, Kafka, Fromm, Nabokov, Joyce, Kierkegaard, Hume, Conan Doyle, Stevenson, James, Gray, Nietzsche, Freud, McCall Smith, Proust, Thoreau, Orwell, Lewis, Jung, Kerouac, Bukowski, Emerson, Burgess, Poe, Bronte, Burroughs, Lawrence, Huxley, Bellow, Steinbeck, Robbins, Woolf, Waugh, Descartes, Rand, Stuart Mill, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Kant, Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Fleming.
Heroes:
Intellectuals, Nonconformers, Free Minds, Artists, Thinkers, Liberals, Self-Masters.
