Existentialism, writing, reading, philosophy, acting, film, bookstores/coffee houses, night driving, my supportive friends, meaningful discussions, theatre, cooking, dancing, hockey/soccer/boxing, working out / staying in shape, singing (especially in the shower), world traditions and cultures, traveling, fashion/modeling, taking time out to collect my thoughts and catch up with myself / journal writing, playing live music (guitar, bass, drums), the scent / taste of vanilla, candlelit rooms, self-improvement, poetry, sketching, roses / callalillies, massages (both giving and receiving), yoga / increasing flexibility, learning and analyzing profound life lessons, good-natured-hearted-and-humored people, Chicago Bears (they're My Team), tattoos, billiards.
I'd like to meet:
My wife and kids, though I don't want either for quite some time. Myself in twenty years. My brother, when he was still seven years old. My parents before they had my brother and I. I don't discriminate against time, even though it has a tendency to discriminate against us.What I look for in a friend and, more or less, a person is a strong sense of loyalty, honesty, and trust. A person with not only a brain, but a thought process. A person who has a love for life and people. An appreciation for things more valuable than tangible possessions (have to say, Los Angeles certainly needs a lesson). An air of confidence, but not cockiness. Someone who knows how to love and laugh (at the world and themselves). I think the only healthy relationship is a reciprocated relationship with open, uncensored communication. I look for commonalities, but more importantly I look for indifferences because as fun as it can be to talk about what you know, it's far more interesting to discuss something that you don't and learn from someone in the process. I'd like to meet interesting people with something to say. Something to offer me in thought. That's who I'd like to meet."Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you feel like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
~ e.e. cummings
Music:
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Arcade Fire, Mike Doughty, Soul Coughing, Morphine, Broken Social Scene, R.L. Burnside, K Os, Bruce Springsteen, Bloc Party, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, INXS, Beirut, The Strokes, Alexi Murdoch, Four Tet, Moby, Pete Yorn, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Beck, Blur, Lou Reed, Incubus, Billy Bragg & Wilco, The Wallflowers, Stereophonics, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Explosions in the Sky, Kings of Leon, Maximo Park, Johnny Cash, Blink-182, Outkast, The Rolling Stones, Interpol, Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins, System of a Down, Matt Pond PA, Eminem, Morissey, The Smiths, Muse, Daft Punk, Spoon, The Lawrence Arms, The Futureheads, New Order, The Ramones, Joe Strummer & The Mescalleros, The Clash, Gipsy Kings, Stars of the Lid, The Vulgar Boatmen, Spank Rock, Goo Goo Dolls, White Rabbits, Matisyahu, The Maccabees, Chromeo, David Gray, Editors, XTC, The Decemberists, Bright Eyes, Erika, Iron & Wine, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Matt & Kim, Sunset Rubdown, Nina Simone, Milosh, Naomi, The Doors, DeVotchKa, etc.
Movies:
American Beauty, Basquiat, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Squid and the Whale, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, City of God, Sling Blade, In the Mood for Love, Half Nelson, Dirty Pretty Things, The Door in the Floor, Annie Hall, Some Like It Hot, Harold and Maude, Heat, Brick, Babel, Requiem for a Dream, Fargo, Little Children, Amadeus, The Insider, 21 Grams, Monster's Ball, 2 days in the Valley..., Good Will Hunting, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Boogie Nights, Little Miss Sunshine, Chinatown, The Silence of the Lambs, Barfly, The Graduate, About a Boy, The Big Lebowski, Vanilla Sky, We Don't Live Here Anymore, Sideways, Magnolia, Pleasantville, The Princess Bride, Rebel Without a Cause, Sunset Boulevard, Network, Ratcatcher, City Lights, Seven, Stranger Than Fiction, Young Frankenstein, Napoleon Dynamite, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, etc. (Focus Features and Fox Searchlight are releasing the best material in the industry, as I see it.)
Television:
Six Feet Under, True Blood (TBA), The Sopranos, John from Cincinnati, Dexter, City of Men, Weeds, Seinfeld, Mad Men, Big Love, Californication, Nip/Tuck, Picket Fences, Newsroom, The Office, Rescue Me, Project Runway, The Frugal Gourmet, Top Chef, Big Brother, Kids in the Hall. (HBO, Showtime, and PBS, best stations on television).
Books:
Childhood favorites: Where the Wild Things Are, The Garden of Abdul Gizzazi, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, and Goodnight, Moon.
Screenwriters: A.Ball, G.Arriaga, B. Wilder, C.Kaufman, D.Milch, D.Aronofsky, Payne/Taylor, S.Gaghan, T.Field, E.Roth, P.Chayefsky, R.Towne, W.Goldman, W.Allen, N.Baumbach, S.Knight, J.Schamus.
Playwrights: T.Kushner, D.Mamet, E.Albee, A.Miller, S.Shepard, M.Cristofer, J.P.Shanley.
Poets: C.Bukowski, Rimbaud, E.A.Poe, Dr. Seuss, S.Silverstein.
Novelists: D.Eggers, H.Selby, F.Kafka, J.Steinbeck, G.Orwell, K.Vonnegut, T.Perrotta, C.Achebe.
Heroes:
Professionally: Alan Ball, Guillermo Arriaga, Billy Bob Thornton. Oscar, Golden Globe, and Emmy is where my career is headed.
Politically: John Lennon.
Sociologically: Abraham Maslow.
Personally: My family and friends, who I hope live their lives to the fullest and accomplish what they want with the time they have.
