Computers (pronounced "Com-pooh-ters")and stuff, gadgets and gizmos, scholarly pursuits, not getting shot in Iraq.
People who are trying to kill me, people who are engaged in epic quests and struggles against the forces of evil and entropy, beautiful but dangerous women, ninjas, pirates, vikings, archaeologist-treasure hunters, Buddhist monks, beautiful but evil women, people who use the word "countenance," people who use the word "foodstuffs," landed gentry, people who live their lives like a Tom Waits song ("I dated a stripper in St. Louis, but she dumped me after I killed a man over a bottle of whiskey."), gypsies, tramps and/or thieves, psychics, Filipinos, knife-fighters, Filipino knife-fighters, manga-kas, blood-weepers, people with semi-legal jobs who refer to themselves as "professionals," major-generals (but only if they're wearing the big floppy hat with the plumes when I meet them), imperialists, Macho Man Randy Savage, Zach Braff, Neil Gaiman, and body-building hipsters, female friends of female friends that I have yet to alienate with drunken pawing or ham-fisted come-ons because I know there are still a few out there and I hate leaving a job half-finished, fourteen year old schoolgirls posing as local sheriff's deputies. Oh yes! And High and Mighty Color. They have to come from a land far to the East to fucking rocking your face down to nubs...of rock!
Yeah! Let's just go down the playlist in the iPod: A Girl Called Eddy, Age of ruin, Al Young, Albert React, Appleseed Cast, Aqualung, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Big & Rich, Billy Mack (I Feel it in my fingers...), Black 47, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Blink 182, Bloc party, Brand New, The Bravery, British Sea Power, Camera Obscura, Charlatans UK, the Coral, Depeche Mode, Dido, the Dresden Dolls, Dropkick Murphys, Eels, Epoxies, Eva Cassidy, Fischerspooner, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Go Betty Go, Gogol Bordello, Goldfrapp, Green Day, H.I.M., HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR (The current obsession...I love you, Maki!), the Hold Steady, Hot Water Music, Imogen Heap, Jets to Brazil, Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, the Killers, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Ladytron, Lagwagon, LCD Soundsystem, Less Than Jake, Liars, the Libertines, Mad Caddies, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Morrissey, My Bloody Valentine, Nada Surf (Who'd a thought, huh?), Neko Case (Punk-country? Fabool...), Nine Black Alps, No Doubt, No Use for a Name, Nobuo Uematsu (Sephiroth!), the Soviettes, Pillows, Pixies, The Postal Service, Pulp (Thanks, Claire, for turning me on to them), Queen, Rancid, She Wants Revenge, The Shins, Shout Out Louds, Sigur Ros, Sleater-Kinney, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Spoon, The Strokes, Tokyo Jihen, T.I., Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (Did you know he's cool again as of his performance at this year's Bonaroo? Weird, huh?), Transplants, U2, Voltaire, We Are Scientists, Weezer, The Who, Yeah Yeah Yeah's. The iPod has Japanese language support. I've got Japanese on my iPod. Then there's also Asobi Seksu, Ryan Adams, Joanna Newsom, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Bowie...And Cansei De Ser Sexy is fun, and Shiny Toy Guns, and Cursive and Death From Above 1979...Plumtree? Calexico. Wilco. Lucinda Williams.
"I don't watch films." "You, with your James Dean hair, are telling me that you don't watch films?"
Boston Legal, Arrested Development, Both "The Office," the Daily Show, Colbert Report, Insomniac, Scrubs, Family Guy, 30 Rock, Andy Barker, P.I., Lost, How I Met Your Mother, most cartoons.
I forgot how to read again. Fuck!
Harry Paget Flashman, Richard Francis Burton, Kuzu Motohito, Theodore Roosevelt, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, John Paul Jones, Jack Shaftoe, Kevin Sites, Arthur Wellesly, Winston Churchille, other world-wide adventures, fictional or otherwise.