Mainly music (making, listening, recording, performing), brief stints of electrical engineering and audio circuitry, attempting to make my guitars sound better, occasionally building things out of wood, attempting to understand wormhole theories and other types of trippy science-y stuff like that, and most anything that lights up and beeps.
I'd like to meet:
Newton's Law
As legend would have it, Newton was sitting in his orchard, thinking about important science things (pendulums, Bunsen burners, incarcerated rodents, etc.), when an apple fell and hit him right on the noggin. This led to two important things: the invention of chairs, so that one could sit in the safety of one's home, and the replacement of the apple orchard with fig trees. Newton's preference for figs over apples eventually manifested itself in the form of a delicious cookie treat. "Newton's Law!" is an exclamation used to describe comparisons in which there is a clear preference, such as "Figs are superior to apples in every way," or "The deliciousness of this cookie treat sure would be compromised were it to be made from apples," or, sadly, "Brian isn't better in bed than I am, is he?"
From
A GUIDE TO
SCIENTIFIC EXPRESSIONS
USED IN EVERYDAY
CONVERSATION.
by Drew Piston
This is the creepiest video I have seen... and I love it.
Music:
The Good Life, Radiohead, The Unicorns, Islands, Elliott Smith, Cursive, Bright Eyes, White Stripes, Ben Folds, Wilco, Ben Kweller, David Dondero, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, The Beatles, The Flaming Lips, Pete Yorn, REM, Radar Bros., Rilo Kiley, Damien Rice, Counting Crows, Built to Spill, Kind of Like Spitting, Belle and Sebastian, Rufus Wainwright, Sebadoh, Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos, Sufjan Stevens, Stars, Coldplay, Deerhoof, The Shins, No Exit, Death Rattle. (The last two are a little shameless plugging)
Movies:
I saw a movie!!!!
Anything by Wes Anderson or Stanley Kubrick, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Seven, Fight Club, Trainspotting, good stuff like that.
Television:
BLACK BOOKS! Discovery Channel
Books:
Currently: Recently Finished: My Life in Heavy Metal - Steve Almond
Eat the Document - Dana Spiotta
Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender
1984 - George Orwell
Nick Hornby, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Dave Eggers (but not "You Shall Know Our Velocity". That book pisses me off like none other. But the other stuff is great.), Micheal Chabon, Micheal Cunningham, JD Salinger, Tim Sandlin, Tom Robbins, Irvine Welsh, Stephen King, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Sedaris, McSweeneys.net, etc.
Heroes:
See Music. Plus Mike Mogis and Larry Crane.
