Creativity
Art
Taoism
Atheism
The French
Dancing like a fool
Writing
Music
Film
Kurt Halsey buttons
Societies
Humanitarian struggles
Aesthetics
Skiing/ Hockey/ Snowboarding/ Futbol
Travel
Haberdashery
Colette (the shop)
Nerds
Poets
Parody
Intelligent friends
Scrabble
Chalkboards
Video games
People
Investigative journalism
Phone conversations with Caroline that take place entirely in random accents
Pretending to be Mormon at bars and getting people to buy me drinks
Beau's laugh
Aimee's vulgar mind
....
I want to meet people with verbal swagger, malignant intellect, riveting ideas...and the will to carry them out.
Someone who likes to go wherever, whenever, to enjoy whatever. I don't care for flakes or bored (boring) people.
Non-creepy eccentrics.
Women of the Beat generation.
Stephen Mitchell, Karl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Timothy Levitch, Eamon Healy.
People who are more well read than I.
I despise people who dumb down what they love; be that themselves, their creative work, or the activities of their lives. If you are like that, whether you know it or not, we won't get along.
A Tribe Called Quest, Aceyalone, Acid Jacks, Al Green, Ali Harter, AM-FM, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Apples in Stereo, The Appleseed Cast, The Arcade Fire, Archie Bronson Outfit, Architecture in Helsinki, Asobi Seksu, The B-52s, Badly Drawn Boy, Band of Horses, The Beatles, Beirut, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Ben Kweller, The Beta Band, Big L, Billy Joel, Bjork, Blackalicious, The Black Ghosts, The Black Keys, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blackbud, Blitzen Trapper, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Bob Dylan, Booker T. & the MGs, The Boy Least Likely To, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bright Eyes, Brightblack Morning Light, Broken Social Scene, The Brunettes, Calexico, Calvin Harris, Cannonball Adderley, The Cars, Cary Brothers, Cat Power, Cat Stevens, The Cave Singers, Chad Van Gaalen, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chi-Lites, Chromatics, Chromeo, The Church, The Clash, Clor, Cold War Kids, Colourmusic The Concretes, Cream, The Cure, Cursive, Curtis Mayfield, Daft Punk, Daniel Moore, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, David Bowie, De La Soul, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, Death Vessel, The Decemberists, Digitalism, Dinosaur Jr., DJ Shadow, Dntel, Dodos, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, The Doors, Dr. Dog, Dragonette, The Dream Academy, The Duke Spirit, Duran Duran, Dusty Springfield, Earth Wind & Fire, Echo and the Bunnymen, Ed Banger stuff, Editors, Elbow, Electric President, Elephant Parade, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Emelo, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, The English Beat, Evangelicals, The Faint, Feist, Fleet Foxes, Fleetwood Mac, The Flies, Foals, The Format, The Foundations, The Foundry Field Recordings, The Fratellis, French Kicks, Fujiya & Miyagi, The Futureheads, Gangstarr/Guru, Genesis, George Michael, Giant Drag, Gil Scott-Heron, Glass Candy, Godspeed you! Black Emperor, Grand Archives, Grizzly Bear, The Headlights, Heart, The Helio Sequence, The High Violets, The Hoosiers, Hooverphonic, Hot Chip, Hot Hot Heat, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Interpol, Iron and Wine, The Jackson Five, James Brown, The James Taylor Quartet, Janis Joplin, Jayne Doe, Jenny Lewis, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Noir, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Jolie Holland, Joy Division, Jurassic 5, Justice, Kelley Stoltz, Kelli Schaefer, Kid Sister, The Kills, Kings of Convenience, The Kinks, Klaxons, Kunek, Kyle Fischer, Laura Marling, Laura Veirs, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, Limbeck, The Long Blondes, Longwave, Los Campesinos!, Lou Reed, Low Moda, Lykke Li, M.I.A., The Mars Volta, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Mates of State, Max Avery Lichtenstein, Mazzy Star, The Melvins, Meric Long, Metric, Michael Jackson, The Misfits, The Monkees, Mono, Mos Def, Mr. Bungle, My Brightest Diamond, Mystery Jets, Naked Eyes, Nancy Sinatra, Neko Case, Neneh Cherry, The New Pornographers, New Young Pony Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, Nina Nastasia, Nina Simone, No Age, Noah and the Whale, Nu Shooz, Of Montreal, The Oh Johnny Girls, Om, Oxford Collapse, Ozma, Peaches, Pelle Carlberg, Peter Bjorn and John, Peter Gabriel, The Pharcyde, Phil Collins, Phoebe Snow, Pink Floyd, Pixies, PJ Harvey, The Police, Pontyail, The Ponys, Portishead, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Primitive Radio Gods, Prince and the Revolution, Principles of Geometry, The Psychedelic Furs, Radiohead, The Rakes, The Rapture, Rilo Kiley, The Rolling Stones, The Russian Futurists, Ryan Adams, Salt n Pepa, Same Cooke, Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers, Seabear, The Sea & Cake, Sebastian, The Secret Machines, Sera Cahoone, She & Him, The Shins, Shout Out Louds, Sigur Ros, Simian Mobile Disco, Simon & Garfunkel, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Six Organs of Admittance, Sly & The Family Stone, Smith, The Smiths, Sneaker Pimps, Snow Patrol, Snowden, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Ssion, The Starlight Mints, Stars, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Stereolab, The Stone Roses, Sufjan Stevens, The Sword, Talib Kweli, Talking Heads, Tapes 'n Tapes, Tarkio, Tegan and Sara, Thom Yorke, Tilly & the Wall, The Ting Tings, Tokyo Police Club, Tommy James & The Shondells, Tom Vek, Treasure Fingers, The Turtles, U2, The Uglysuit, Vampire Weekend, Van Morrison, Van She, The Velvet Underground, The Walkmen, Weezer, Wham!, White Matter, White Rabbits, The White Stripes, The Who, Witchcraft, Working for a Nuclear Free City, Wu Tang Clan, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Zombies & of course... Zooey Deschanel
Waking Life, The US vs. John Lennon, City of God, Control, Room, The Cruise, Love Me If You Dare, The Science of Sleep, I Heart Huckabees, George Romero films (the Dead series, Martin, Monkey Shines), Wes Anderson films, Running with Scissors, Half Nelson, There Will Be Blood, Children of Men, Run Lola Run, spaghetti westerns, The Lives of Others, Reincarnation and other asian horror films, Kubrick films, The Big Lebowski, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Squid and the Whale, Little Miss Sunshine, Como Agua Para Chololate, Pedro Almodovar films, and virtually any random piece foreign film I can get my hands on, and I don't know I'm leaving too many out
IFC, AMC, The History and Discovery Channels, Flight of the Conchords, occasionally shitty reality TV, Lost, CNN or Al Jazeera (online) even though I despise televised news, Nick at Nite... which is to say Fresh Prince and The Cosby Show, and Turner Classic Movies
anything by: Rumi, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Henri, Jack Kerouac, Bret Easton Ellis, Rainer Maria Rilke, Irshad Manji, Anais Nin, Sam Harris Thich Nhat Hanh, Hermann Hesse, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Hafiz, Charles Bukowski, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Carl Jung, Confucius, Basho, Thomas Merton, Emerson, Bertrand Russel, Eric Sloan, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Henry Miller, Kahlil Gibran, T.S. Elliot, D.H. Lawrence, Hunter S. Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Brian Greene, J.R.R. Tolkien, Marcus Borg, George Orwell, Alex Haley, Raegan Butcher, Howard Zinn, and any Crimethink book, Culture Jam ..
Eddie Aikau, Bruce Lee, Stephen Mitchell, Thich Nhat Hanh, Malcolm X, my parents,