music, writing, reading, movies, theatre, baseball, my work (consulting), family & friends, politics (left), history, museums, shoes, window shopping, dreaming, absurd random acts of art, parks, turning left occasionally just to see where it will take me, sex in the morning, travel, concerts, long baths, guitar players, history, the present, dreaming about flying and breathing under water, boba fet...
I'd like to meet:
People who aren't ashamed or confused by their like of campy pop-culture crap as long as they've got solid enriching life-fulfilling interests in other things. And as long as you've got at least a few things in common and aren't a total asshole, then chances are good I'd like to meet you, or at least exchange some witty or not so witty words.
Bauhaus - Bella Lagosi's Dead - (one of my favorite songs)
Music:
Richard Hawley - The Streets Are Ours (a crackin good song)
Cabaret Voltaire - Crackdown - (a familiar song in my house when I was a kid)
In my playlist now: Cake, the Cure, Monkey Swallows the Universe, The Long Blondes, Pizzicato Five, Echo & the Bunnymen, Richard Ashcroft, Coldplay, Richard Hawley, Radiohead, Damien Rice, Lo'Jo, James Blunt, the Clash, Etta James, Hound Dog Taylor, John Coltraine, Oasis, the Allstar Klezmer Band, Cheb i Sabbah, the Kinks, the Killers, Green Day, Henri DiKongue, Zap Mama, Roxy Music, Patti Smith, Blur, Faust, Most Chill Slackmob, Cesaria Evora, Muse, Elbow, Foo Fighters, David Bowie, Catherine Feeny, Frou Frou, Feist, Guster, Keane, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, My Morning Jacket, Nick Drake, the Pet Shop Boys, Ray LaMontagne, Snow Patrol, Tears for Fears, U2, the Verve, the Weepies
Movies:
Most Recently watched: Kung Fu Panda, Don't Mess with the Zohan (hated it), The Happening (hated it)
Favorites: When Harry Met Sally, Klute, The Frisco Kid, Some Like it Hot, It Happened One Night, Gossford Park, Seven Samurai, Empire Strikes Back, City of Lost Children, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Aliens
Television:
Damages, The Closer, Alias, Angel, Buffy, Coupling, Red Dwarf, the Office (BBC only please), Sex and the City, Biography (any of them), Friends, documentaries, cooking shows, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, Dr. Who (the new), Rome, Battlestar Gallactica --- don't own a t.v. though
Books:
A friend and I estimated I read about 100 books a year....I'll read most anything, high or low brow, but my favorites include those written by: Jorge Amado, Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuinn, Gregory McGuire, the whole A Traveler's History of "X" series of histories, cookbooks of many sorts (Jamie Oliver, Nigela Lawson, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Yamunda Devi, Caludia Roden), thousands of others....
Heroes:
my mother, my step-father, my father; Jimmy Carter; Alan Alda; Tom Stoppard; Emily Dickensen; Carole Lombard; Al Franken
