Belly dancing, Bay-to-Breakers!, modern art, expression, reading, running, record shopping, independent films, sketching, people-watching, physics, baking cookies, catalyzing chain reactions, working on classic cars, billiards, exploring SF, sleeping-in, bowling, bar-hoppin' and be-boppin', bike riding, outdoor-sy type stuff, leading conga lines (especially at weddings), camping, observing the spiders outside my front door.
I'd like to meet:
One hell of a Scrabble player. The mysterious Adam who was at Smedsfest but was there only while I was asleep Saturday night. Mark's Dad, because he looks like Willy Wonka. (There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there you'll be free if you truly wish to be.) Someone who will play a game of chess with me in Washington Square Park. An Englishman in New York (who won't stalk me by telephone). My neighbors across the courtyard who walk around their kitchen shirtless or otherwise encourage me to people-watch. The cashier from the Magnolia bakery. The world-champion arm wrestler because I bet he/she could come in handy when I can't open a jar of tomato sauce. Myself, age 6.
Music:
Francois K, Ruben Mancias, Rachmaninoff, t. Doors, Radiohead, Miguel Migs, Chemical Bros., t. Kings of Convenience, Dimitri from Paris, DJ Aphrodite, Dvorak, Kid Loco, DJ Rap, Beethoven, Nicola Conte, Old97s, RHCP, DJ Jask, Gomez, Beck, Air, t. Police, G. Love, Dimitri from Paris, the Avalanches, Tosca, Bob Sinclar, Thievery Corp., Morcheeba, Pearl Jam, Furious Five, Ean Golden, Frenchy le Freak, anything with a funky dance beat. Rocky IV soundtrack = HS XC soundtrack.
Movies:
The Big Lebowski, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Goonies, When Harry Met Sally, Monsters Inc., Gone in 60 Seconds, l'ultimo bacio, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, almost famous, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the Lady from Shanghai, Lost in Translation, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mr. Mom, Swimming Pool, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Fame, Big, Valley Girl, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Terminator, gondry.
Television:
Useless for purposes other than viewing DVDs.http://youtube.com/watch?v=pc9y5ayeeb4
Books:
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore and anything Murakami, Life of Pi, Ella Minnow Pea, The Virgin Suicides, The Mezzanine, Siddharta, Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band, anything Feynman, The Path to the Spider's Nests, Alan Lightman, DH Lawrence, anything David Sedaris, Norwegian Wood, Memoirs of a Geisha, 1984, To Engineer is Human, Demonology, The Stranger, White Noise, The Secret Life of Bees
Heroes:
My dad, Bill Murray.