Yeah, I'll get back to you on this one.
Writing, playing guitar, music, Chinese language, culture, history, food and people, exploring, collecting, Eastern spirituality, coffee shops and teahouses, bookstores, space exploration, science fiction, mythology
Open-minded, selfless free-thinkers and creative/artistic types. People to learn from and hang out with for coffee, dinner, or exploring the less-traveled paths and the nooks and crannies of the world. People who check their egos at the door. People who get the joke. People who are rooted in the intangibles.Bonus points for being Chinese. Or for being able to speak, read and write Chinese.
Groove metal to synthpop...Bulgarian women's choirs to Texas swing combos...moody orchestras to rainfall...Chinese pipa soloists to old skool rappers...it's all good, if it's a natural talent that finds its own audience. If it's something market-driven and shoved down your throat ( i.e., artists that everyone knows by name ), and if it smells like teen spirit, you can bet that I ain't playin' it.
The Star Wars saga, Leon: The Professional, Blade Runner, Donnie Darko, Sling Blade, Serenity, the Alien quadrilogy, The Lord of the Rings, Strange Days, Children Of Men, The Boondock Saints, Summer Palace, Big Fish, A Scanner Darkly, Sideways, Braveheart, Farewell My Concubine, Lost In Beijing ( Ping Guo ), Almost Famous, Raise The Red Lantern, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, Dogma, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, The Last Emperor, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Schindler's List...
*yawn* Isn't Battlestar: Galactica Season 4.0 on DVD YET?
Well, here's what I've read recently, or am currently reading: Burning Chrome, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition and Spook Country by William Gibson; The Eyes of Heisenberg, Whipping Star, The Dosadi Experiment, Direct Descent and Eye by Frank Herbert; Victory Of Eagles by Naomi Novik; Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Comes down to it...we can ALL be Big Damn Heroes.