music, video games, being a terrible person, paintball, role-playing, recording, composing, sarcasm, delighting in others' misfortune, collecting and playing hand drums, computers, movies, music gear and other tech toys, teaching marching percussion, and general geekdom.
I'd like to meet:
people who can hold an intelligent conversation. people who think for themselves and don't follow the crowd just to feel like they're a part of something. people who enjoy sarcasm and a good-natured laugh at another's expense. people who can take a joke and have a sense of humor.
i hate mostly everybody on sheer principle. i hate stupid people most of all. but there's a chance you're one of the narrow margin that isn't a waste of life. feeling lucky?
Music:
Rock:
Tool, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, old Incubus, Stabbing Westward, God Lives Underwater, The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In, The Police, Lostprophets, My Chemical Romance, Circa Survive, Glassjaw, Head Automatica, The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, Björk, 30 Seconds To Mars, Marilyn Manson, Muse, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, The Killers, The Cure, and waaaay too many others to name them all here.
Classical:
Chopin, Shastakovich, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Bach, Fauré, Debussy, Mozart, Bartók, Ravel, Holst, Pucchini, Strauss, Verdi, Rachmoninoff, Glass, Ives, Reich, Webern, Rimsky-Korsakov, many many more.
Jazz:
John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Pat Metheny, Charlie Parker, Jelly Roll Morton, Wes Montgomery, Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Maynard Ferguson, Branford Marsalis, Dave Weckl, Chick Corea, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, etc. etc.
Movies:
Fight Club, Snatch, Sin City, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, Boondock Saints, Poolhall Junkies, Amélie, The Big Lebowski, Office Space, Clerks, Gladiator, any James Bond flick, A Man On Fire, American History X, Edward Scissorhands, The Princess Bride, Kung-foo Hustle, House of Flying Daggers, The Sixth Sense, Signs, Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Revenge of the Sith, Boiler Room, Ocean's Eleven, The Italian Job, Primal Fear, The Game, I Robot, The Matrix trilogy, A Beautiful Mind, Braveheart, Troy, Mission: Impossible I & II, Minority Report, god there's too goddamned many.
Television:
i don't watch TV, period. for the record, i think reality TV is the most terrible waste of brain cells ever conceived.
Books:
The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis), The Wheel of Time series (Robert Jordan), the Dune series (Frank Herbert), the Redwall series (Brian Jacques), the Harry Potter series (J.K. Rowling), The Divine Comedy (Dante Alghieri), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), The Illiad and The Oddesy (Homer), many more. i read a lot.
