I love being outside. I think if I didn't know and love God I'd probably have ended up being a sun-worshiper. I love wandering around at the beach and climbing around on the rocks back home. Backpacking, hiking, climbing with friends, waterskiing (anyone have a boat?), sea kayaking adventures, TRAVELING. There are so many places I want to see - I don't think I'll ever get over wander-lust.
And then I love the symphony and reading and plays. I'd love to do the New Yorkish thing for a while and play to that side of me, but I couldn't live there too long because they don't have enough sky there!
And I love music - I've played the piano forever (or since I was five, which is the same thing) and flute since I was eight. And guitar since... hmmm, not so much guitar. I'm currently in a Christian band out of Chattanooga called Soapbox.
I'd like to meet:
Zach Braff - we would totally be awesome friends, I just know it - and Jon Stewart and John Cleese and J.S. Bach.
Music:
I like most music, except I can't really get into country or tuneless rap or horrible head-banging-nonsense. Oh, or mindless jazz (as opposed to GOOD jazz). It gets on my nerves and makes me antsy. And did I mention Nickelback and all Nickelback-like bands?
What I DO like: the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Guster, Ben Folds, Barenaked Ladies, Death Cab for Cutie, the Postal Service, Sufjan Stevens, Joshua Rading, the Weepies, Regina Spektor, Imogen Heap, the Shins, Kings of Convenience, the Soundtrack of Our Lives, Alexi Murdoch, the Eels, the Gipsy Kings, Bjork, Tori Amos, Portishead, Leonard Cohen, Simon&Garfunkle, James Taylor, Nick Drake, Mark Knopfler, CCR, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald... And then of course there's the way-WAY old guys like Beethoven and Debussy and Rachmaninov and Bach and Vivaldi and Holst and Tchaikovsky.
Music that makes me nostalgic: Moody Blues (Days of Future Past), Tom Rush, several Beatles albums (on vinal, not CD - the songs are different!) and Sting's "All This Time" album sends me straight to Riomaggiore, Italy, every time.
"Walk on the Ocean" by Toad the Wet Sprocket has this astounding ability to make me completely and rapturously happy. "Spark" by Tori Amos and "Porcelain" by Moby have similar abilities, only they each conjure up slightly different moods.
Movies:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Stranger Than Fiction, Sense and Sensibility, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Star Wars, Noises Off, The Russians are Coming, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Little Miss Sunshine, The World's Fastest Indian, The Marx Brothers, You've Got Mail, the Princess Bride, 12 Monkeys, Fantasia, Finding Neverland, Crash, Moulin Rouge if I'm watching (singing) it with Julie or Hailey or Amber or Kimberly, My Fair Lady, An Affair to Remember, and usually anything strangish-but-oh-so-cool that most of my friends don't like (for example, I thought that Lost in Translation was brilliant, a sentiment not shared by the majority of my friends. Ah well.)
And classic movies - every Monday! You come too!
Television:
West Wing and Scrubs and the Daily Show (if only I could stay up late enough regularly I'd be more informed) and Studio 60.
Things I wish were still on TV: The Muppet Show, the Carol Burnett Show, Fractured Flickers.
Other than that, turn off the telly and go play outside!
Books:
"Life of Pi" and "Flowers for Algernon" are my two recent favorites. Everybody should rush out and get them and read them immediately! You'll live happily ever after. Other favorites: Kurt Vonnagut, James Herriot, Tolkien, Edward Rutherford, Douglas Adams, C.S.Lewis, Richard Brautigan, Megan Daum. And "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman - read it.
Reading now: "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde.
Just finished: Rule of Four. READ it.
Heroes:
Beethoven and Vladimir Horowitz and my sister and my dad.
