Friends, Family, Unitarian Universalism, Tolerance & Equality - Period, Cooking, Running, Reading, Road Trips, Museums & Art Galleries, Dancing, Coffee Houses, History, Beadwork, Chess, ...Giving Life Meaning, Petrichor, The Spaces Between the Notes, Taking inane internet quizzes when I'm bored...
Norman Borlog, Madeline Albright, Tavis Smiley, Dale Chihuly, Eddie Izzard, Kevin Smith, Joss Whedon, Aaron Sorkin, Warren Ellis, Ira Glass... Hey, you asked.
Those with some sense of aesthetics. The fun loving, adventure seeking, having a certain sense of humor and wit type - doesn't hurt either. Tolerant, open-minded folk. People who appreciate a good mishna every now and then. Anyone from my hometown or the East Coast. Fellow UUs are always welcome. Outliers, auslanders, aberrants and fellow browncoats. Anybody who wants to do something in Columbus that doesn't involve shopping at Easton/Polaris/whatever other commerce planet, or going to a sports bar, are always welcome.
Disclaimer on the "Friends" bit: If you are in a band and I don't know you - not happening. If you are looking to sling pron or add men to your thousands of friends list to gawk at/fawn over/make comments for you - no way. If you're just looking to win the myspace popularity contest, keep looking. If I don't know you, we've never met, etc. - send me a message, please don't automatically try to "friend" me.
Anything worth putting on a mix cd - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Placebo, the Ramones, Public Enemy, Johnny Cash, Iggy Pop, Bowie, the Pogues, Tom Waits, Wesley Willis, the Distillers, Love & Rockets, Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead, Goldfrapp, Everything But The Girl, Lady Day, Duke Ellington, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Dar Williams, Beth Orton, Trespassers William, Wild Colonials, Jolie Holland, Dead Can Dance, Changelings, Chopin's Nocturnes, Yo-Yo Ma - especially the Bach suites.
M by Fritz Lang, Clerks, Shawshank Redemption, Ikiru, the Holy Trilogy, Breakfast Club, Casablanca, North by Northwest, Tombstone, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pitch Black, the Professional, V for Vendetta, Big Lebowski, Life of Brian, Holy Grail, Thank You For Smoking, Mrs. Brown, Boondock Saints, Amelie, Very Long Engagement, Dangerous Liasons, Shape of Things, Ghost Dog, Coffee & Cigarettes, Lost In Translation, Lost Highway, Army of Darkness, Team America: World Police, Saved, Princess Mononoke, Ghost in the Shell, Pirates of the Carribean, (almost) anything by Kevin Smith or Akira Kurosawa
Whichever one in the gym is not playing Friends.
Northern Exposure, West Wing, ST:NG, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, Firefly, Daily Show (when I'm at somebody's who's got cable), the new Doctor, Torchwood, Rome, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Boondocks, the BBC Coupling, Blackadder, MST3K, Kids in the Hall reruns - if 'n when I can ever catch them again.
And I'm a pretty big This American Life fan these days, but there's nothing on myspace for "radio."
The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Embers by Sander Marai. Napoleon of Notting Hill and the Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton. The collected poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, as translated by Robert Bly and given to me by Julia. Stranger Music: The Collected Poems of Leonard Cohen. The Collected Poems of D. H. Lawrence. Smile, You're Traveling by Henry Rollins. Hells Angels and Better Than Sex: The Confessions of a Political Junkie by Hunter S. Thompson. Cash by Johnny Cash. Neverwhere, Good Omens, Stardust and the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman. Farenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. God's Dog by Webster Kitchell.
Those who live by a code, treat others as they'd want to be treated, and do what they can to leave this world at least a little better for their being here. And anyone who's ever waded out into the river and stood beside me in the cross-fire.