writing, sleeping, drinking, coffee, my cats, independent and/or local music, laughing and making people laugh, sarcasm, grammar, all things British, not eating meat, not acting my age, staying up late, sleeping in, PS2, Xbox, 'Cube, classic NES and SNES, DS, video games in general excluding most on PC, my Corolla
I'd like to meet:
Old friends from South -- and anyone from DC who turned out well-adjusted. New friends who are into writing. Someone who can make me feel giddy.
Music:
An often-changing list. Akron-Family, Arcade Fire, Basement Jaxx, Beatles, Black Tie Dynasty, Bowie, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Centro-matic, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, DARYL, Death Cab for Cutie, Decemberists, Destroyer, Dylan, Flaming Lips, Interpol, Islands, Led Zeppelin, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, OK Go, Pavement, Phoenix, Radiohead, Rapture, Rolling Stones, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Talking Heads, Theater Fire, TV on the Radio, U2, Unicorns, Walkmen, Who, Wilco, Yo La Tengo.
Movies:
40 Year Old Virgin, Adaptation, American Beauty, As Good As It Gets, The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner, Casablanca, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Fight Club, Ghost World, Ghostbusters, Hard Boiled, The Hunt for Red October, I Heart Huckabees, In the Mood for Love, Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jackie Brown, Kicking and Screaming (no, not that Kicking & Screaming), Kill Bill 1 & 2, Little Miss Sunshine, Living in Oblivion, Lost in Translation, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Notorious, The Philadelphia Story, Remains of the Day, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shaun of the Dead, The Silence of the Lambs, Sixteen Candles, Stranger Than Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Waiting for Guffman, When Harry Met Sally, Wonder Boys.
Television:
The only TV I watch on TV anymore is Lost and Heroes, and half the time I watch them online. Oh, and Battlestar Galactica when it's running. Ab Fab, Arrested Development, Boston Legal, Firefly, Freaks & Geeks, Futurama, Invader Zim, NewsRadio, The Office (both), Simpsons, Spaced, Spongebob, Weeds, Wonderfalls, X-Files, and anything HBO puts out: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Deadwood, Extras, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, The Wire. I swear I don't really watch that much TV.
Books:
How about authors? Douglas Adams, Jane Austen, Orson Scott Card, Raymond Carver, P.K. Dick, Dave Eggers, Percival Everett, William Gibson, Thomas Harris, Robert Heinlein, Nick Hornby, John LeCarre, Gregory Maguire, Chuck Palahniuk, Tom Perrotta, Terry Pratchett, Tom Robbins, JK Rowling, David Sedaris, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut. Books I have read since graduation: Slaughterhouse Five, Erasure, Deadeye Dick, Neverwhere, The Jane Austen Book Club, Survivor, Northanger Abbey, Cat's Cradle.
Heroes:
Emma Thompson, Jo Rowling, Jane Austen
