In alphabetical order: archipelagoes, Asian food, asymmetry, Bangkok alleyways, baseball, being a total nerd, being pedantic, berating George Lucas, bizarre love triangles, books, Buddhists, buses from Chinatowns to other Chinatowns, Chinatown, coming very close to hurting myself, conversations with cab drivers, cougars, drinking a cold beer on a hot summer day in the bleachers, driving recklessly in shitty cars, eastern europe (the parts without skinheads), extreme liberalism, flickr, ghetto revivals, Golden State Warriors (sadly), hapas, Highway 1, individuality, japanese freak-kink (for entertainment purposes only), Jeopardy!, Jews, karaoke, Komodo Dragons, learning pointless crap so i can dominate Jeopardy, lomography, minimalism, mountains, newspapers, Oakland Athletics, Omarion, orangutans, orange julius, ping-pong, Queer as Folk, Rage Against the Machine, reading good books in hammocks, riding elephants, riding in cars with boys and girls, scuba diving, southeast asia, travel and exploration on a local or international level, trying desperately to get off the beaten path, used bookstores, vagina monologues, Vietnamese sandwiches, wailing away with an acoustic guitar or a karaoke mic and sounding like a lamb being slaughtered, walking aimlessly, wandering, wanderlust, Xavier Nady, yearning, Zebras.
Half-Japanese girls, people that obsess over baseball, expatriates, ascetics, adventurers, divers, photographers, artists, authors, designers, fashionistas, urbanites, someone who can teach me how to surf, and nice, humble, creative people.
I don't want to meet blowhards, cocky motherfuckers, self-absorbed chatterboxes, people with no imagination, or anyone who cares what Paris Hilton is doing.
"I've had a long day and I hate the fucking Eagles."
Point Break, Big Lebowski, The Cutting Edge, VI Warshawski, Christmas Ape, Christmas Ape Goes to Summer Camp.
It begins and ends with the Sopranos.
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov, Moneyball by Michael Lewis, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, One Pitch Away by Mike Sowell, and The English Roses by Madonna.
Theo Epstein, Dr. Drew, Carlos Delgado, Allen Iverson, Che Guevara, Meredith Gray.