Poetry/spoken word, movies, hiking, yoga, writing, knitting, kayaking, and music...
I'd like to meet:
People who can rattle off 3 songs by: Public Enemy, Duran Duran, Radiohead and Bauhaus without even a second thought...otherwise I doubt we'd have much to talk about. Each of those bands kind of define my own personal genre. I am a music junkie and love talking shop. On that note, I'd love to meet Thom Yorke, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman and Ray LaMontagne...Nelson Mandela would be a treat as well.
Music:
Radiohead, The Roots, YAZ, The Decemberists, Duran Duran, Beck, Mike Doughty, The Killers, Peter Gabriel, Joe Strummer, The Clash, Beasties, Nick Drake, Miles Davis, KOS, Missy Elliott, Spoon, Interpol, Ani DiFranco, Melvins, The Postal Service, Tribe Called Quest, Radio 4, Belle and Sebastian, Annie Lennox, the Wu, Radiohead, Cocteau Twins, Public Enemy, Cibo Matto, Mary J. Blige, Tool, Perfect Circle, Fatboy Slim, Coldplay, Poi Dog Pondering, Eryka Badu, Jill Scott, Monk, The English Beat, Big Audio Dynamite, Futureheads, The Smiths, Mule, Depeche, The Cure, Bauhaus, Aztec Camera, Justin Timberlake, Secret Machines, Radiohead, Common, Renegade Soundwave, Meat Beat Manifesto, KRS-1 (B.D.P), Biggie, NIN, Ben Harper, Ray LaMontagne, Louis Armstrong, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Tracy Chapman, Radiohead, most 80's "new wave" bands...I could keep going, but I love most music. Spoken word tip-if you are into spoken word, check out my friend Taalam Acey ( www.taalamacey.com) He is the one and only spoken word artist that has truly touched my heart!
Movies:
Dirty Pretty Things, Emelie, West Side Story, Vampire Hunter D, Wizards, Half Baked, Run Lola Run, Chicago, The Pianist, L. I. E., The Station Agent, THe Man on the Train, Suburbia, X-Men, Harold and Maude, Sid and Nancy ("I want to be a cabby" "So why don't you just fuck off and be one then" ~para tu, Patty!), The Royal Tennenbaums, Delicatessen, anything Kevin Smith-Dogma at the top of the list, In America (fabulous film), Aladin, Little Mermaid, all Guy Ritchie (except Swept Away), most John Cusack films
Television:
24, Nip Tuck, The Simpsons religiously, Six Feet Under, Homicide, Law and Order, Prisonbreak
Books:
Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Demian, Narcissus and Goldmund, Illusions, Jonathan Livingston Seagul, The Tao of Pooh, The Te of Piglet, Misfortune, Fall to Your Knees, The Bridge Across Forever, Middlesex, Life of Pi, Mother of Pearl, Backroads, The Sparrow, The Art of Living, Curious Incident of the Dog at Nightime, Patron Saint of Liars, Children of God, Angels and Demons, The DaVinci Code, Running With Scissors, Sofie's World, anything by Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Soren Kierkegaard, Anita Shreve, Taalam Acey, Rabbi Harold Kushner
Heroes:
Dad, Mom, Thom Yorke
