Food, aminals, playing with friends, outdoorsy stuff, photography, astronomy, weather, personal finance, the Internet, traveling, climbing things, being in the grass, museums, art, architecture, anthropology, ancient history, philosophy, cultural studies, language, religious studies, observing, sleeping, and a bit of everything else. When i can make the time i like to golf, play tennis, shoot pool, karaoke, and bowl. Oh yeah, bars are nice (sometimes).
I'd like to meet:
Who cares?! Let's use this space for something else:
Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune; I myself am good-fortune.
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
-from Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route."
-Albert Camus"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
-Augustine of Hippo"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world."
-William Lyon Phelps"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
-Ansel Adams
"...What will your verse be?"
Music:
Currently enjoying the likes of: Rufus Wainwright, Nickodemus, Nuttin' But Stringz, Jamie Cullum, Ben Kweller, Matt Nathanson, David Gray, Feist, random French, Arabic, and Spanish language stuff, and stuff on KUT 90.5
Movies:
Willy Wonka, Casablanca, Life is Beautiful, Sound of Music, Hero, Old School, Napoleon Dynamite, The Matrix..es (Matrices?), What the Bleep Do We Know, Garden State, Shawshank Redemption, Love Actually, Crash, The Pianist, The Producers, Wizard of Oz, Sideways, M. Night Shyamalan stuff, Without a Paddle, Dead Poets Society, and more...
Television:
Jeopardy!, Iron Chef, anything offensive and funny, Food Network, Travel Channel, Discovery, Animal Planet, PBS, NGC, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Red Green Show, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Chappelle's Show, The Office (UK version), Keeping Up Appearances, UFC.
Books:
The Stranger, The Fall, Camus in general, Nietzsche, SOME Ayn Rand stuff, Things Fall Apart, Faust, Siddhartha, Hoover's Vision, textbooks, picture and coffee table books, remember Gary Paulsen and Roald Dahl?, and the dozen or so magazines i subscribe to. I guess i'll throw in Raymond Carver and Denis Johnson, Walt Whitman, and Take Back Your Time.
Heroes:
More like inspirations: Leo, TJ, WW
