I'd like to meet:
fun, striving-to-grow-in-life-without-crushing-others kinda people. And the guy who goes scuba diving off the Maldives daily... you know him?
Music:
Bob Marley, Spearhead, Michael Franti, The Police, Deep Dish, Sia, Zero7, Moloko, Leona Lewis, John Digweed, Sasha, Danny Tenaglia, old Oakenfold, Laurent Garnier, Derrick Carter, Nick Warren, Gotan Project, Infected Mushroom, Astral Projection, Sun Project and all other solid psytrance/goa (taps it like no other!), Alpine Star, Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, bossa nova, 70's disco, Janis Joplin, Frank Sinatra, Prince (from the 80's), Blondie, classic Persian pop: Googoosh, Martik and contemporary cheesy Persian pop!, electronica - tech house and groovin' ambient & lounge, trip hop, acid jazz (yum yum), Sugarhill Gang, Public Enemy - Chuck D, KRS-One, Beastie Boys, Serge Gainsbourg (can you say "melt in my mouth good?"), Arabic music, Yves Montand, Cheb i Sabbah, Karsh Kale, Om Kolthoum, Omar Faruk Tekbelik
Movies:
Hitchcock flicks, The Graduate, Citizen Kane, Star Wars (the originals), Sunset Boulevard, Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellars movies in general, Woody Allen, Raoul Bova (mmm), Chocolat, The Jerk, Amelie, Blue/White/Red, Taxi Driver, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford in "exotic" locations?!), Swingers, Like Water for Chocolate, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Wag the Dog, lots of chick flicks, The Spanish Prisoner, Stranger Than Fiction, and...it goes on and on...
Television:
30 Rock, SNL, The Daily Show, Ab Fab, SATC, Flight of the Conchords, Extras, In Treatment, PBS, Cheers, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Conan O'Brien, Dave Letterman, classic cartoons...
Books:
Tokyo Cancelled, Persepolis, The Namesake, Joan Didion works, Eat Pray Love, The Comedy Writer, Noam Chomsky, Catcher in the Rye, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Candide, Catch-22, Animal Farm, David Sedaris, The Stranger, The Little Prince, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a good amount of chick lit, A Moveable Feast, Salman Rushdie, The Adventures of Tintin...
Heroes:
Those who are uninhibited and nonjudgmental. And people who LOVE to laugh. People who are willing to take healthy life risks...shake it up, stir it around...because complacency breeds extinction.