iPods, wireless internet, New York City, NPR, painting, Mario Brothers 3, traveling to see my friends, progressive education and politics, defending public schools, movements, geography, maps, social demography, local history, the census, social statistics, pop, koozies, cheese, fruit, spicy food and salsa, neighborhoods, small towns, big cities, pre-1930 homes, Firefox and Foxfire, garage sales and eBay, the black market, working out, making mixed CDs for my pals, blogs, pajama pants, bedding, magazines, learning, sharing ideas, conversations with kids, Jackson the Cat, Franklin the Dog, catching my pets when they escape, Alice, Adrian, and Calvin, finding places to hide a key, mixed media, old or new furniture that I think is cool, biting my nails, the Platte River, digital watches, mosiacs, and brick walls and streets.
I'd like to meet:
Someone who can keep up with my (many) plans and ideas.
Music:
Guster, David Ryan Harris, John Mayer, Tegan and Sara, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Rilo Kiley, Ben Lee, Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, Wilco, Yellowcard, Matt Nathanson, Ben Kweller, Will Hoge, Teitur, Kanye West, Rufus Wainwright, Coldplay, Something Corporate, Mae, Sufjan Stevens, Ani diFranco, Weezer, The Killers, Keane, The Arcade Fire, Death Cab, Bloc Party, Aqualung, Jimmy Eat World, Phantom Planet, The Postal Service, Ryan Adams, The Shins, Snow Patrol, Belle and Sebastian, The Decemberists, The New Pornographers, Everclear, Lit, U2, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Faint, Morningwood, Spoon, Ray LaMontagne, Little Brazil, Fall Out Boy, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Regina Spektor, Jeff Buckley, James Taylor, Cursive, Alana Davis, Imogen Heap, Tilly and the Wall, Bruce Springsteen, musicals, Carey Ott, Daphne Loves Derby, Mat Kearney, My Morning Jacket, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, DMB, Jack's Mannequin, Yo La Tengo, Le Tigre, Sleater-Kinney, The Fray, Badly Drawn Boy, Neutral Milk Hotel, Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, many more...
Movies:
Chernobyl Heart, MAD HOT BALLROOM, Old School, Norma Rae, The Weather Underground, Zoolander, Mean Girls, Crash, Garden State, You've Got Mail, Little Miss Sunshine, Zoolander, Roger and Me, The Motorcycle Diaries, Paperclips...most documentaries
Television:
Gilmore Girls, Best Week Ever, Colbert Report, Weeds, Even Stevens, The Office, Project Runway, Arrested Development...HGTV
Books:
Savage Inequalities, I Won't Learn From You, The Power of Their Ideas, Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp, Sometimes a Shining Moment, The Conscious of a Liberal (Wellstone), America: The Book, Teaching the Commons, anything by Bill Ayers, Lucy Calkins, or Herb Kohl, A People's History, Nickel and Dimed, The Pact, Chomsky, Possible Lives, Anything Rethinking Schools puts out, labor history, Frindle, Holes, Ramona Quimby Age 8, Because of Winn Dixie, Martin's Big Words, Pippi Longstocking, Hank the Cowdog, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, If You're Not from the Prairie, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and recently the poetry of Ted Kooser
Heroes:
all people who overcome opression or difficult circumstances (and all those that never do), activists, Jonathan Kozol, Marian Wright Edelman, Bill Ayers, my great aunt Helen, Barbara Ehrenreich - people who make things better
