lazy boy copies from his LJ interest list:
a good kiss, agnosticism, animal rights, autovein, blood bowl, board games, books, broadcasting, buffy, buffy the vampire slayer, card games, cats, cerebus, chasing amy, clerks, computer games, computers, courtney love, cthulhu, d&d, dark beer, darkness, dead kennedys, death, denver broncos, depression, dogma, douglas adams, driving aimlessly to nowhere, eating out, edward scissorhands, feeling wanted, firefly, flirting, flogging molly, football, foreign films, free music, gaming, geeks, george carlin, goth chicks, goth girls, grammar, green day, halloween, halo 2, hauntings, history, hockey, hole, honesty, horror, hugs, indian food, indie films, interviews, jackie brown, jason lee, joss whedon, kevin smith, kill bill, kissing, language, liberals, live music, lord of the rings, lost love, love, lovecraft, media, monty python, movies, neil gaiman, news, nfl, paranormal, passion, pearl jam, penny arcade, pets, photography, piercings, pinky and the brain, poker, politics, public libraries, pulp fiction, rainy days, reading, recycling, red hot chili peppers, river tam, roadtrips, role-playing, roller hockey, rounders, rpgs, sandman, sarcasm, science fiction, scotland, scrabble, serenity, sex, sharing, snuggling, solitude, st. louis, star trek, star wars, sublime, tattoos, texas hold 'em, the cure, the doors, the follow, the nightmare before christmas, the princess bride, the quiet, the simpsons, tim burton, tori amos, touching, trust, unplanned trips, vampires, vegetarianism, video games, violent femmes, whispered come-ons, women, words, world history, writing.
I'd like to meet:
okay, I will be less glib and actually answer the question...
I like to meet people who are:
- crazy hippie vegetarian freakos
- pink-haired bisexuals
- direct, even to a fault
- able to hold a good conversation, even if it means pausing the movie or actually (shock!) turning off the TV
- writers
- avid readers
- poets (who are also writers, but they get their own line anyway... deal)
- geeks
- gamers, not "players"
- not at the extremes of gender identification. I like the middle ground; it's far more interesting.
- honest, with themselves as much as with others
- people I like (catch-all cop out answer for the stuff I missed)
I like the quotes section on Facebook, but Myspace doesn't have one, so I'm making my own.
Favorite Quotes:
"Please, God, make me a stone."
-- 'River Tam', Serenity
"No power in the 'verse can stop me."
-- 'River Tam', Firefly
"You forget the things you were certain you would always remember, especially the tiny things, and all too often they're the things that matter."
-- Neil Gaiman, blog entry, 12/1/06
"I'm your huckleberry."
-- 'Doc Holliday', Tombstone
"Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?"
"Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"
-- 'Donnie' and 'Frank', Donnie Darko
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having!"
-- 'V', V for Vendetta
"Slide."
-- 'Penguin/Marla', Fight Club
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
-- 'Tyler Durden', Fight Club
"Human beings, almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-- Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it?
"It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
"You build up all these defenses: you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life. You give them a piece of you.
"They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.
"Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness. So a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.
"It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.
"I hate love."
-- 'Rose Walker', Sandman "The Kindly Ones" by Neil Gaiman
and the Mark Twain collection:
"[T]hat day will never come when facts and experience can teach a pulpit anything useful."
"I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices."
"Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink."
"[T]he citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor."
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."
"To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, 'Our country, right or wrong,' and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?"
And the Video...
New video to celebrate the "fucking" awesomeness that is The Big Lebowski.
Music:
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Jane's Addiction, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Tori Amos, The Doors, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Violent Femmes, The Follow, Autovein, Dead Kennedys, Sublime, Green Day, Nirvana, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, Sarah McLachlan, Garbage, Radio Iodine, Hole, Linkin Park, U2, Flogging Molly, Bif Naked, Leonard Cohen, Courtney Fucking Love
Movies:
Serenity, Lord of the Rings, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Psycho, Donnie Darko, Heathers, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, The Thing, Pleasantville, Blackhawk Down, Thelma & Louise, Alien, Aliens, Predator, Ocean's Eleven, Silence of the Lambs, The Matrix, Tombstone, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Romeo + Juliet, Braveheart, Gallipoli, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Miss Sunshine, Grindhouse, Pan's Labyrinth
Television:
meh. I don't even have a TV, but I do like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly. I have also been known to like The Simpsons, The Daily Show, South Park, and The Colbert Report. Apparently, you have to be animated, cynical, and/or Joss Whedon to interest me.
Books:
Good dog, I dunno... Letters From the Earth by Mark Twain (changed my view on Twain and really helped with the anti-religion thing), Maus, Sandman (Neil Gaiman 3), On the Road, The Food Revolution, Diet for a New America, Cerebus. Stardust, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I should say Lord of the Rings, but mostly they put me to sleep, The Histories by Herodotus, Lies my Teacher Told Me, A Brief History of Time, Devious Derivations, Watership Down, Fast Food Nation, and more that escape me at the moment.
Heroes:
Mark Twain, Jim Morrison, Jack Kerouac, Suzi Twitty, Neil Gaiman, Bill Clinton, John Lennon, your mom
