Music of all kinds, laying down the beat, learning guitar, riding my bike, dancing, feeling the red, movies, making movies!, bad beat poetry, le hautbois, harmonizing, offering my two cents, road trips, crazy board games, singing in the shower, NPR, throwing makeshift dinner parties, heated political discussions, discovering my inner vegetarian, California, 90 Shilling, bare feet, the beach, wave running, mix cd's, finding new dives, going to shows, summer sun, really cheesy musicals and movies that make me cry, reading until my eyes start to blur, FREE POOL, The Horseshoe on wing night(sadly no more), my pillow, making tea and only drinking half of it, playing chess at 3 AM at the Underbar..
I'd like to meet:
Charlie Kaufman, people who can appreciate the color orange, and maybe a professional whistler or two. Oh, and those people who train the seeing-eye dogs for the blind. They seem nice.
Music:
Andrew Bird, TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene, The Fire Theft, U2, Radiohead, Muse, Belle and Sebastian, Blonde Redhead, Komeda, The Helio Sequence,Sugarland 3, Os Mutantes, Secret Machines, Jeff Buckley, Built to Spill, Explosions in the Sky,Freezepop, The Flaming Lips,Don Caballero,Martin Sexton, SunnyDayRealEstate, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, David Bowie, The Pixies, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo, Shins, Stereolab, Sea Ray, Denali, M83, Air, Jeremy Enigk, IMA Robot, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Godspeed!You Black Emperor, Kinski, Red House Painters, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Arcade Fire, The Dandy Warhols,The Velvet Teen, Interpol,Doves, Songs:Ohia, Camera Obscura,Architecture in Helsinki, M.Ward, The Fiery Furnaces, Pinback, Shellac, DFA, Mazzy Star, Husky Rescue, Broadcast, The Stars, The New Pornographers,Mercury Rev, Califone, The Voice of Nations, The Wrens...Ravel, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Debussy, Chopin, Mahler, Strauss, Sam Prekop, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Charles Mingus, Patricia Barber, Sarah Vaughn...this could go on forever. Currently listening to: lots and lots of mixes
Movies:
The Usual Suspects, Donnie Darko, Amelie, Big Fish, Talk to Her, The Motorcycle Diaries, A Very Long Engagement, Y tu Mama Tambien, Strictly Ballroom, anything by the Coen brothers, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Cool Hand Luke, The Big Lebowski, Amorros Perros, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Best in Show, Being Julia, Waking Life, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, American Beauty, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Grosse Point Blank, Waiting, Hustle and Flow, What the Bleep do we Know?,Strangers with Candy, Once
Television:
M*A*S*H*, The West Wing, Arrested Development, The Family Guy, Weeds
Books:
Love in the Time of Cholera, The Laments, Observatory Mansions, My Year of Meats, Motherless Brooklyn, Old School, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, American Pastoral, anything by Sedaris, The Snow Leopard, Things Fall Apart,Suite Francaise, Middlesex, The Corrections, Travels with Charley, Jesusland, Interpreter of Maladies, Running With Scissors, The Stranger, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, Harry Potter series, The Velveteen Rabbit. Currently reading-Our Story Begins, by Tobias Wolff
Heroes:
so many people in my life.. I guess everyone who lives life with passion, compassion, and love. Those are things I strive for in my life, and I admire those things deeply in others.
