Music. Books. Learning French. Learning Japanese (slowly). Sports, more and more: I like watching baseball, rugby, soccer and ice hockey. Traveling, which I do as much as I can afford (in dollars and days off). Photography.
I'd like to meet:
Those ready to rock and/or roll.
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Music:
The Beatles, Radiohead, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Pulp, Blur, Suede, Supergrass, Morrissey, The Smiths, Massive Attack, Spiritualized, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Mogwai, Do Make Say Think, Ministry, Flogging Molly, The Divine Comedy, Elbow, Clinic, Ed Harcourt, Tom Waits, Belle and Sebastian, PJ Harvey, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Placebo, Mercury Rev, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Beta Band, The Libertines, Idlewild, Kings Of Leon, The White Stripes, System Of A Down, Manic Street Preachers, High On Fire, Pixies, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, The Hives, The Arcade Fire, Emily Loizeau, Gogol Bordello, Tetes Raides, Serge Gainsbourg, Maximo Park, The Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, The Flaming Lips, Beck, Candiria, Opeth, System of a Down, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Queens of the Stone Age, Bloc Party, Joy Division, Sigur Ros, New Order, The Darkness, Kula Shaker, Bjork, Phoenix, Sleeper, Elastica, Aphex Twin, Underworld, Death in Vegas, Oasis, Bauhaus, Mansun, Lamb, the Stone Roses, The Zutons, The Dears.
Movies:
Trainspotting, Monty Python, Lord of the Rings 1, 2 and 3, Harry Potter, 28 Days Later, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, anything by Stanley Kubrick, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn, Army of Darkness, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Porco Rosso, Millions, Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Batman Begins, Spider-Man 1 and 2, Sin City, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, The Ring, Shaun of the Dead, Team America: World Police, Anchorman, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, 24 Hour Party People ... too many to list. Oh, and Hot Fuzz.
Television:
I yell at the screen during "Jeopardy!"
Books:
. . . by Oscar Wilde, Neil Gaiman, Irvine Welsh, Stephen King, Andrew Vachss, Greg Rucka, Nicola Griffiths, J. K. Rowling, Nick Hornby, Dave Eggers, Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, Harlan Ellison, David Sedaris, Craig Clevenger, Chuck Palahniuk, Haruki Murakami, Martha Grimes, Elizabeth George, Joe R. Lansdale, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Alexandre Dumas, Jonathan Kellerman, Dick Francis, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" (which is all I've read by him -- bad English major!), Jasper Fforde, Walter Mosley, Susanna Clarke, Dennis Lehane ... so, so many. (I usually have like four different books going at once.)
Heroes:
My mom and dad, Andrew Vachss, and Dave Eggers. Quite likely in that order. I'm sure I could come up with lots more if I thought about it.
