I'm a guy. I like video games, even if I only get a couple of hours a week to play.
Cups.
Paint a picture. Mow my lawn. Write a television show. Create a video game. Take my nephew to the museum.
I'd like to meet:
Honest people.
Mature, independent people.
Responsible people.
People who aren't afraid to fight when necessary, but compromise when useful and apologize and accept apologies when helpful.
You will find, if you look carefully into any human's heart, that he is haunted by at least two imaginary women—a terrestrial and an infernal Venus, and that his desire differs qualitatively according to its object.
— C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Music:
The best concert I've ever seen was Over the Rhine at midnight in an Illinois cornfield. It is indescribable how beautiful such a sound could exist under the stars.
Sixpence None the Richer and Chasing Furies make me cry.
Violent Blue has the best third verse ever.
The Seventy Sevens might possibly be the best rock and roll band in the world.
I own the Chagall Guevara CD. I know most of the words to Still Know Your Number by Heart. The lead singer once asked if I was a psychic. Fear me.
Movies:
Chai Tea is delicious. I know it's a drink and not a movie, but there's no section for "Favorite Drinks". See? I'm adaptable.
The Princess Bride has absolutely everything in it.
The scene in Casablanca at the train station, where Rick reads Ilsa's letter... oh yes.
I like really bad movies too. (Donna will attest to this.) TiVo knows that any description which starts "Giant robots terrorize..." is a must-record.
Television:
I miss Futurama and Firefly. I have to wait how long again for new Battlestar Galactica episodes? (I wrote that same sentence after the end of the second season. Why do I have to write it again after the end of the third season?)
Books:
Annie Dillard, Umberto Eco, Roger Zelazny, Neal Stephenson, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton. (If you know that they're writers and not books, even better.)
I've written a novel, a couple of plays, and several short stories and someday would like to write an episode of a television series and a comic book.
Thomas Pynchon has great sentences and paragraphs. I wish I knew what his plots were though.
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure—tangible material prosperity—is the safest test of virtue.
— Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Heroes:
The so-called average person who silently and humbly does the right thing even when it's not easy and certainly not free.
People who can love unconditionally, even in small doses to complete strangers.
My parents, who were my age now when they had me, learned as they went along, and fulfilled all of our needs as equitably and fairly as they could. The thought of me doing that someday terrifies me.
Those who had been afraid to come near him even after he was bound began to find their courage, and for a few minutes the two girls could not even see him—so thickly was he surrounded by the whole crowd of creatures kicking him, hitting him, spitting on him, jeering at him.
— C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
I'll be there
Waiting
—Tiffany Arbuckle
