Saving the world, aikido , late night adventures, vegan food technologies (e.g. fake cheese that's actually good, vegan ice cream sandwiches, seitan, vegan chicken nuggets, etc), riding my bicycle, going to rock shows , registering people to vote, singing karaoke , shooting pool, playing bass and screaming real loud, good tattoos , circle pits, eating rice, philosophical dinosaur comics , irony, harmony, recognizing that some things were just made up by people and aren't really all they're cracked up to be (I call it "anti-essentialism" and I'm starting to discover that I'm not the first to do so), cooking, 'topping from the bottom,' declarative acts, wry smiles, challenges, bad jokes followed by "Yessss," identity, greasing the runway, root brewskis, supernormal stimuli, zero as a number (I was going to say the LaGrange multiplier but have just been informed that that would be "too pretentious")
I'd like to meet:
Adventurers. Creative people. Active people. People who love themselves--I think it's necessary to love yourself if you want to love the whole world. People who are up to something. Someone to take over the world with. Someone who can teach me about art. People with at least one picture of themselves where they aren't holding a drink. Karaoke co-conspirators. Ex-vegans who want to give it another go... with sexy results.
Note: all the people on my list are real friends that I really know in real life. Even bands. I don't add anyone I don't know personally.
Ok, so there are 4 or 5 exceptions. Big deal. Your entire family is made out of meat.
Music:
I like to listen to punk and metal and hip hop and hardcore and jazz and some classical. Here's some examples (definitely not an exhaustive list):
Aesop Rock
Against All Authority
Anthrax
Bad Religion
An "Against The Grain" tattoo is on my to-do list.
Beastie Boys
Big Quarters
Birthday Suits
Blaster the Rocket Boy
This band is the only exception to the rule that you can't be a christian band AND a punk band.
Bouncing Souls
Children of Bodom
Choking Victim
the Coup
The Darkness
Dead Kennedys
Death By Stereo
Defacto Oppression
Descendents
Dillinger 4
Doomtree
D.R.I.
Eufio
Far
Sage Francis
"I'm a real vegetarian
no chicken
not even fish"
Gorilla Biscuits
Heiruspecs
Ignite
Iron Maiden
Life's Halt
"From the Pit to the Grave"
Mike Gunther and His Restless Souls
Mimi LaValley
"I thought I was your baby and I thought I was your friend
but I guess I drive you crazy and I guess this is the end"
Minor Threat
"I always wanna keep in touch
Never wanna use a crutch"
Misfits
Modern Life Is War
"The end
This is the end of the way we used to live
This is the death of the days when we were better off dead"
Monsieur le Directeur
Morning Glory
Naked Raygun
Nine Shocks Terror
Ocho a.k.a. Dave O'Connell
One Reason
Polysics
P.O.S.
"I'm like teabag the government
But that don't fix our predicament, does it?"
Quartet of Happiness
Queen
Ramones
Refused
"Good words won't cover ugly actions
Good frames won't save bad paintings"
Sick Of It All
Social Distortion
"The pool hall I loved as a kid
Is now a 7-11..."
System of a Down
Ten Foot Pole
"Keep on playin me
I'm not a toy!"
They Might Be Giants
"I'm interested in things"
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
"It matters"
Three Inches of Blood
United Super Villains
Violent Femmes
... I used to play bass in Olsen Twin Suicide and Night Falls Fast . I liked them as well. For a little while I thought I was in Red Phone Dispatch , but now I'm not so sure. Anybody wanna rock out?
Also, I am a karaoke junky, and as a result have developed a (possibly ironic) appreciation for horrible pop tunes from the last 50 years or so. I'm not afraid to bust out a little Wham or some The Scorpions now and again. Once I won a bottle of sake for my rendition of "All That She Wants".
Movies:
Happiness
Saved
Bowling for Columbine
Event Horizon
The Filth and the Fury
Donnie Darko
Suburbia (the punk rock one)
Supersize Me!
The Order
Lost Boys
Starship Troopers
Akira
Zoolander
Wayne's World
Spinal Tap
Orgazmo
Office Space (ha ha ha)
Falling Down
Azumi
Fargo
Anything done by Mystery Science Theater 3000
Elling
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Last Samurai
Jesus is Magic
The Corporation
You Can Count On Me
Television:
Advertising makes me want to die. Some programs are ok though:
FLCL
Sealab 2021
Cowboy Bebop
The Colbert Report
The Prisoner
Looney Tunes
Metalocalypse
Books:
Currently enjoying: "Beyond Good and Evil," "Becoming A Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn In The Wild," and I'm giving "Life of Pi" another chance. So far, I don't see what the big deal is, but I heard it gets better now that the boat sank.
Novels: Catch-22, Dune, the Invisible Man, The Stranger, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Choke, Diary, Lullaby, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, Mother Night, Hocus Pocus, The Great Gatsby, Dracula, 1984, The Club Dumas, The Exorcist, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Cat's Cradle, The Rules of Attraction
Social Science: Bowling Alone, Better Than Well, anything from Journal of Democracy, Stupid White Men, Crowds and Power, Freakonomics, everything by John Kenneth Galbraith
Children's Books: The Gingerbread Man, The Lorax, The Giving Tree, The Way Things Work, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, A Light In The Attic, Where The Sidewalk Ends, the True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche, John Stuart Mill, Ruth Millikan, Arthur Schopenhauer, Paul Churchland, L.L. Fuller, Morihei Ueshiba, Miyamoto Musashi
Misc.: Why We Get Sick (it's about incorporating evolutionary science into medicine--very cool)
To-read List (far from complete and certainly not in order): Theory of the Leisure Class, The Underground Economy, Kite Runner.
Heroes:
Dr. Seuss
Tom Moore
Eliot Spitzer
J.P. Stevens
Dan Shulman
Seiseki Abe
Mimi LaValley
Anyone with a critical eye who doesn't let the bastards get them down.
