secular ethics, american religions, magic, mentalism, improv, comedy, the paranormal, the scientific outlook, secular humanism, transhumanism, politics, fundamentalism, cults, wine, polyamory, classicism, traveling, sci-fi, macs, evolution, lewis mumford, skepticism, freethought, humanism
I'd like to meet:
humanists, rationalists, freethinkers, skeptics, UFOlogists, scientists, pseudoscientists, fringe scientists, alternative medicine hucksters, magicians, comedians, secularists, glbt policy wonks, former Ambassador University alumni, old friends from Washington University, world-travelers, porn stars, ethicists, and artists.
Music:
Iron and Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Billie Holiday, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin, 70s male singer/songwriters, Elton John, Arcade Fire, Beck, Bright Eyes, Willie Nelson, Queen, opera and romantic era classical (Rachmaninoff, Schumann, and the other bipolar composers). Rufus Wainwright, Jude, Stand-up: Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, even Dane Cook.
Movies:
Harold and Maude, Being There, Grand Canyon, etc.
Television:
Penn and Teller's BULLSHIT
Books:
Peter Singer, CS Lewis, Faith of a Heretic, Orson Scott Card, Richard Dawkins, Letters to a Young Poet, Nietzsche, Freud, Goethe, Harold Bloom, Sam Harris, etc.
Heroes:
Barry Lynn, Bertrand Russell, Ibn Warraq
