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I'd like to meet:
Old friends I've been out of contact with for a long time. New friends that I'd like to keep in contact with. Good new music. People with similar interests, local preferred. People who will challenge me to think and step out of my comfort zone.
Music:
I have pretty eclectic tastes, so some of almost anything (don't love most country, rap-rock is crap, I'm still trying to appreciate opera), but classic rock, indie rock and cheesy 80's are my favorites.
Pop/Classic Rock
Billy Joel, Prince, Madonna, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, David Broza, Dave Mathews, Journey, Phish, Grateful Dead, Yellowcard, Green Day, Spoon, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, The Beatles, Jeff Buckley, Rage Against the Machine, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Poison, Britney Spears (pre K-Fed), Backstreet Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, Pearl Jam, Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, CSNY, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, The Zombies, The Kinks, A-ha, George Michael, Belinda Carlisle, Debbie Gibson, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Cream, Guns N' Roses, INXS, Jimi Hendrix, Manu Chao, Metallica, Nirvana, Gwen Stefani, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sarah McLachlan, U2 (pre-Achtung Baby), Youssou N'Dour,
Indie Rock/Folk/Country
Ani Difranco, The Killers, Baby Teeth, The Detholz, Ben Folds, Guster, The Shins, Stars, The Flaming Lips, The Secret Machines, Ambulance Ltd., Radiohead, Coldplay, Cat Power, Dinosaur Jr., Social Distortion, Johnny Cash, Fountains of Wayne, Liz Phair, Maktub, Tori Amos, White Stripes, Loretta Lynn, Dar Williams, System of a Down, The Mars Volta, Sufjan Stevens
Hip-Hop/R+B/Electronica/Reggae
M.I.A., OutKast, DJ Shadow, Basement Jaxx, The Roots, Lauryn Hill (before she went insane), Ice Cube, Northern State, Peaches, 2 Many DJ's, Beastie Boys, Bob Marley, The Go Team!, Matisyahu, MF Doom, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Prince Paul, Stevie Wonder, Wayne Wonder,Jazz/Classical/Showtunes/A Capella
John Coltrane, Miles Davis, John McGlaughlin/Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tchaikovsky, a capella groups (w/o too much vocal percussion), Rent, Les Miserables, Grease, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Gilbert & Sullivan, the Bad Plus, Plum Tucker, Medeski Martin & Wood, Weather Report
Movies:
Se7en, Requiem for a Dream, Secretary, Wet Hot American Summer, Heathers, Last of the Mohicans, Memento, The Big Sleep, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Crash, The Princess Bride, Blade Runner, Flash Gordon, The Warriors, No Man's Land, the Marx Brothers ouevre, Fight Club, Die Hard, Young Guns, Top Gun,
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (clearly the inferior one, like Speakerboxx and the Love Below, except that the Kill Bills actually form a cohesive pair),
Dazed & Confused, Waking Life, School of Rock, The Last Samurai, The Opening of Misty Beethoven, Fame, Grease, Children of Men
Television:
Buffy, Daily Show & Colbert, Flight of the Conchords, Veronica Mars, Ugly Betty, televised sports, The State, Deadwood, The X-Files, Rome, Entourage, South Park, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Coupling (BBC), Chapelle's Show, The Sopranos, The Office (BBC & US), Ed, Scrubs, Sports Night, Friends, Arrested Development, Alias, Reno 911, Stella, Angel, Firefly, The West Wing, 24, Beverly Hills 90210, Married with Children, M*A*S*H
Books:
Bitch Magazine, Stephen King (Dark Tower saga & The Long Walk my favorites), Neil Gaiman, The Walking Dead, Joann Sfar, Black Hole by Charles Burns, other graphic novels, Eric Schlosser, James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, JK Rowling (7 rocked!), LOTR, Kurt Vonnegut, Nicholson Baker, Laurell K Hamilton, Tom Robbins, H.P. Lovecraft, Audacia Ray, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Yehuda Amichai, Look Both Ways by Jennifer Baumgartner
Heroes:
Jon Stewart, Markos Moulitsas, My Parents, John & Elizabeth Edwards, Dr. Carol Queen, Yonatan Netanyahu, Dan Savage, Ethan Nadelmann, Joss Whedon, Leora Tannenbaum, Billy Joel, Tina Fey, Rachel Maddow, Nadine Strossen
