Travel, eating, drinking and being merry, singing to my dog, vintage sports cars, wandering, camping, reading, cartoons, paying homage to the dark lords, whiskey by the fire, sushi, museums, beautiful well engineered or well constructed things, furniture, most art.
I'd like to meet:
Anyone interesting, fun and worldly who can hold a decent conversation. A somewhat sardonic sense of humor is also required. People who have cool dogs. People who don't kill bugs. Weird and beautiful people.
Music:
Right now... Pinback, Johnny Cash, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Cat Power, Massive Attack, Elliot Smith, Aiyb Dieng, Bill Laswell, Praxis, Al Green, Pete Seeger, Cab Calloway, Clinton Fearon, Jeff Buckley, Snoop, Keb Mo, Mr. Bungle, Nick Cave, Spiritualized, Voltaire... bunch of other stuff...
Movies:
Eraser Head, Watership Down, Dr. Caligari (better living through chemistry, yo!), Amelie, Jesus of Montreal, Drowning by Numbers, A Zed & Two Noughts, The Residents, LOTR, Old School, Legend of Ron Burgundy, Allegro non troppo, Incredibles, Last Temptation of Christ, Empire of the Sun, Fiddler on the Roof, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of the Flying Daggers, Dreamscape, Terminator I, Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life, Blade Runner, Indiana Jones (1 & 3), Top Secret, Young Frakenstein, Night of the Lepus, Stranger Than Fiction, Calamari Wrestler
Television:
eh... not so much...
Sporadically - West Wing, those shows where they build cool stuff from junk, hotrod/motorcycle fabrication shows, Unwrapped, back in the day -- Buffy.
Cartoons:
Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, Dilbert, Drawn Together (sometimes), Dexter's Lab, Classic Loony Toons, Samurai Jack, Mark Fiori, Don Hertzfeld (bitterfilms), Spike and Mike, Vampire Hunter D, Foamy the Squirrel, Cowboy Bebop, Aeon Flux
Books:
Something poignant and complex. Historical in nature. Great thinkers with base philosophies a plus. Sometimes (in moments of weakness) crap Vampire lit.
Huxley, Burroughs, Kerouac, Vonnegut, Voltaire, Alvin Schwartz, Douglas Adams, Tom Robbins, Robert Shay, Robert Anton Wilson, Munro Leaf, Robert Lawson, Umberto Eco, many others that escape me at the moment...
Last one(s): A Short History of Nearly Everything, Freakonomics, The Diamond Cutter, Tropic of Cancer, probably others...
Every one should read, and give a kid a copy of Ferdinand the Bull.
