Thirsty

I'd like to meet:

Has integrity become a bad word? I'd like to meet anyone who is decent and honest (if there are any), other than that I'm open-minded.

Music:

Shows Seen:

I listen to classical & old jazz (pre-Bitch's Brew), reggae, blues, and some world music but I grew up on hardcore. Some bands I've seen: beatlemania, dead kennedys (w/ & w/o jello), government issue, morally bankrupt, doggy style, verbal assault, circle jerks, exploited, adolescents, doughboys, cro-mags, i think i remember a butthole surfers' show - with a tuba player - anyone that was with me, please send a message, black market baby, rollins band, marginal man, roadside petz/outcrowd/images (my buddies - now in H2O), H2O, ignition, fugazi, strictly prohibited, soulside, king face, scream, tsol, dr. know, 7 seconds, dead milkmen, moss icon, offspring, rise against, transplants, suicide machines, street dogs, the get up kids, sick of it all, civ, pink floyd, U2, grateful dead, nofx, all, gwar, whole wheat bread, stretch armstrong, descendents, social distortion, blink 182, green day, danzig, soundgarden, dagnasty, jane's addiction, the cure, the loved ones, fishbone, ramones, pennywise, swiz, steely dan, american standard, the hated, boxcar racer, the used, 76% uncertain, henry rollins, james taylor, skindred, fidelity jones, dropkick murphys, thorns, fireparty, thrice, lawrence arms, token entry, akas, the unseen, smoke or fire, the casualties, anti flag, shiragirl, joan jett, bouncing souls, ramrod, the business, dead end boys, dwarves, agnostic front, ramallah, turbo ac's. Some of these bands have my space pages, a good place to hear others is www.interpunk.com or amazon.

Favorites:

Favorite punk records: wire "pink flag" , rise against "revolutions per minute" , green day "american idiot , h2o "h2o" , nofx "punk in drublic" , replacements "all for nothing/nothing for all" , bad brains "i against i" , descendents "milo goes to college" , circle jerks "group sex/wild in the streets" , sick of it all "scratch the surface" , gray matter "food for thought/take it back" . Favorite classical records: bach "the art of the fugue", handel "12 concerti grossi", mahler "symphonies 1-9", mozart "requiem", beethoven "string quartets (esp. op.130 & op.133)", shostakovich "string quartets". Favorite jazz records: nat king cole trio "instumental classics", ramsey lewis trio "consider the source", charlie parker "bird after dark", bill evans "waltz for debby", dave brubeck "jazz at the college of the pacific", miles davis "kind of blue", eroll garner "complete savoy master takes", oscar peterson trio "we get requests". I think that's enough music to get started.

Movies:

My 5 star movies from www.netflix.com (alphabetical): 12 angry men, 2001, apocalypse now, being there, blade runner, casablanca, a charlie brown christmas, citizen kane, a clockwork orange, close encounters, crouching tiger, hidden dragon, das boot, dr. strangelove, empire of the sun, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, farewell my concubine, finding nemo, gaslight, the godfather, grand illusion, the hustler, i heart huckabees, the incredibles, the killing fields, the last emperor, lawrence of arabia, lord of the rings, mash, monty python and the holy grail, north by northwest, nosferatu, notorious, on the waterfront, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, patton, the philadelphia story, platoon, the princess bride, raiders of the lost ark, rear window, red beard, the road warrior, schindler's list, seven samurai, the seventh seal, shrek, to have and have not, to kill a mockingbird, the twilight samurai, vertigo, wallace and grommit: three amazing adventures, young frankenstein.

Television:

I'm trying to watch Lost and a few PBS series, but I'm not good at those kind of commitments. I liked Mash, Cheers, Star Trek (& Next Generation), Simpsons, X-Files and Seinfeld. I like NOVA, The Daily Show, South Park, Mythbusters, Family Guy, and Futurama. I watch sports and gardening shows pretty regularly, but mostly documentaries and old movies on TCM.

Books:

This will be tough; I'll try to keep to a few favorites. My three favorite books are Chaim Potok - The Chosen, Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game, and J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings. My favorite non-fiction books are Goodman - Languages of Art, Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation, and Gombrich - Art and Illusion (there are also a couple great surveys of Noguchi's work - Master Sculptor & A Study of Space). Other than Tolkien, the epic series by Michael Moorcock and Terry Brooks area great fantasy reads. In literature, I've recently enjoyed novels by Dickens, Ian McEwan (especially early stories), John Le Carre, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, and Gao Xingjian. My next "fun" reads are: The Rule of Four, An Instance of the Fingerpost, In the Fall, and Sick Puppy. In non-fiction I've set up a bookshelf to read or re-read so my reading is a bit more systematic: van Doren - A History of Knowledge, Durant - The Lessons of History, Frankfort et. al. - The Intellectual Adventure of Man, Spence - The Outlines of Mythology, Radin - Primitive Man as Philosopher, Thompson - Coming Into Being, Sahn - The Compass of Zen, Weinberg - The First Three Minutes, Fernandez-Armesto - Civilizations, Gombrich - The Story of Art, Takei & Keane - Sakuteiki, Gribbin - In Search of the Big Bang, Durant - Our Oriental Heritage, Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel & Collapse, Yourgau - A World Without Time, Penrose - The Road to Reality, Gould - The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. I think it'll take a couple years and I might start a blog as a study tool - there is some method to the madness of this grouping, we'll see as we go along. Last I'll be putting together outlines of several gardening and landscaping text books - setting out their respective guidelines, systems, and philosophies.

Heroes:

Most of my heros are dead : Isamu Noguchi: http://www.noguchi.org/ (sculptor), Frederick Law Olmstead (landscape architect), Thomas Church (landscape architect), Robert Kennedy (politician), Mary Harris -Mother- Jones (activist), Che Guevara (doctor & rebel), Daisetsu Suzuki (zen buddhist monk), MLK (minister & activist), Bob Marley (musician), Willem DeKooning (artist), Adlai Stevenson (politician), Bill Evans & Louis Armstrong (musicians), J.R.R. Tolkein & Hermann Hesse (authors), George Harrison (musician), Arthur Schopenhauer & Immanuel Kant (philosophers), Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart, Katherine Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman (actors), Albert Einstein & Erwin Schrodinger (physicists), Akira Kurosawa & Alfred Hitchcock (directors), Mahatma Gandhi (mystic & activist).Some of them are still alive : Andrei Codrescu (writer, ed. of The Exquisite Corpse - www.corpse.org), Morris Dees (founder, Southern Poverty Law Center - www.splcenter.org), Andy Goldsworthy (sculptor), Ian McEwan (author), Chen Kaige and Ingmar Bergman (directors), Steven Hawking (physicist), Melissa Block, Michele Norris, and Robert Siegel (journalists -www.npr.org), Yo-Yo Ma (musician).There might be a few others out there, but check these folks out @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.