I'd like to meet:
someone who can loan me a bicycle, or someone who can repair my time machine. yes, i know it's hard to find the parts...
Music:
I am continually searching for my soundtrack... and along the way have found so much music I love, including (but not limited to) jazz, bluegrass, classical, hip hop, rock, soul, funk, experimental and even stuff from various musicals. Here's a sample: Bjork, The Beatles, Jeff Buckley, Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Janis Joplin, Pavement, Spoon, Blonde Redhead, The Stones, Grandaddy, The Roots, Billie Holliday, The Doors, David Bowie, Blackalicious, The Shins, Jamiroquai, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Iron & Wine, Portishead, Led Zeplin, The Spooks, People Under the Stairs, The Cure, Mogwai, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Atmosphere, Built to Spill, The Kinks, Interpol, The Violent Femmes, CCR, Radiohead, Blondie, Gang Starr, Black Star, The Pixies, The Police, Air, Sigur Ros, Bright Eyes, Harry Neilson, The Velvet Underground, Elliot Smith, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jimi Hendrix, Destroyer, The New Pornographers, Silkworm, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fiona Apple, Company Flow, Jane's Addiction, Dave Brubeck, Joy Division.
Movies:
Waking Life, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Beauty, The English Patient, Quitting, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Requiem for a Dream, Amelie, The Shining, Run Lola Run, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Endless Summer II, Edward Scissorhands, Stealing Beauty, Pulp Fiction, The Princess Bride, the Wallace and Grommitt short films, Moulin Rouge, William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet, Legends of the Fall, A Clockwork Orange, The Life Aquatic, Labrynth (I fell in love with David at a very young age thanks to this film!), Willow, Waiting for Guffman, Great Expectations, Best in Show, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Donnie Darko, Clueless, Vanilla Sky, Dogtown and Z-Boys, American History X, Fight Club, The Virgin Suicides, Sliding Doors
Television:
too much tv makes carly a dull girl...but i dig shows on adult swim, the discovery channel, the history channel, national geographic, animal planet and IFC.
Books:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Sidhartha, Sophie's Choice, stuff by Edward Gorey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Great Expectations, Paradise Lost, and other faves, although I don't read as much as I would like these days - "these days i seem to think a lot about the things that i forgot to do"