I surround myself with my friends, provide some alcohol and the right environment- and magic happens.I almost feel apologetic- except that I don't: I like watching TV. Not *all* TV, and I have my TiVo so I can watch it when wish- but I have my four hours of TV or so a week that I don't miss.I am going to Burning Man again this year. I occasionally go to the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Los Angeles.But really? The secret to my happiness is about being around people you love, doing the things that you love. Maybe it's being at home alone playing video games with people who live in New Zealand- or your roomate who is 40 feet away.Or taking my dog to the beach. Or driving up the coast to a winery for a weekend. Or finding restaurants that have been lurking in Los Angeles since before my parents were born.Or just talking. You know- those talks when you meet someone for the first time? When you look at the clock and realize that you have been in each other's brain for four hours- and it seems like not long enough...I'm almost always up for Random Acts of Silliness and Geekery- with a dash of Discord.
Human Beings. More specifically- interesting, passionate, fun, slightly crazy, fun people.As for dating- I don't know that I am looking. I don't know that I am *not* looking. We can always come up with a litany of criteria for potential LTR material, but how often to we pay attention to that? Probably not as often as we should. I suppose what I should say here is that as far as LTR material goes- I would love to meet someone who had a similar laid-back, wacky sense of humor as well as someone who had their proverbial $hit together. You know where you are, where you are going, what you want to do, and can take care of yourself. Or at the very least be well along your way to that end. And you must speak Geek. :)
My musical tastes are... strange.Old music. A capella Music. Drinking Songs. Sea shanties. Old KROQ Stuff. KCRW. Stephen Lynch. The Foremen. Weird Al. But really- music that I hear on the radio is not one of my passions. Percell, Ravenscroft, Traditional drinking songs- Harmony, vocal stylings- these things I like.I don't really have a lot of music to listen to. Educate me.
Fight Club (always brings me up when I'm feelin' down- I know- I'm a freak), Dressed To Kill, X-Men and X2, The Indiana Jones Trilogy (alright- just I and III), The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Evil Dead II, Army Of Darkness, LOTR- All of them, The Goonies, Buckaroo Banzai, Star Wars- all of them (yes, even the new ones), Tron, Real Genius, Weird Science, American Beauty, Dogma (anything by Kevin Smith, really), Patton, The Quiet Man, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Time Bandits, Monthy Python And The Holy Grail, Cowboy Beebop, Akira, Ghost In The Shell. You get the idea- right? Shaun of the Dead. Hot Fuzz.
Penn and Teller's Bullshit, Buffy (sniff), Angel (sniff too), John Doe (Sniff- seeing a pattern here?), Smallville, Enterprise, Monster House, Adult Swim, Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, 24, ER, CSI: Anywhere, The Daily Show, South Park, Home Improvement Shows (I own a house- I can't *help* it!), LOST VENTURE BROS.! Surviorman Man Vs. Wild Heroes! I LOVE my TiVo. :)
Asimov, Heinlein, Benford, Effinger, Gibson, Jordan, Moore, Niven, Rowling, Hard SF and Epic Fantasy, Stephenson.