Challenge,
Competition,
Success(who doesn’t?),
Sports and other competitive/cooperative activities.
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Writing, performing, listening to and watching Music.Other Art: Making it, and looking at it… although I don’t think visual art is nearly as effective as music is.
Graphic Design: is Fun!... Comics: Drawing and Writing them - but also the artform in general...
Teamwork and the team dynamic.
Optimization,...
Sand Volleyball: Saturdays, 12:00-4:00 p.m. (March – September)
Touch Football: Until it is warm enough for VB or too cold...Throwing singularly awesome parties with my friends, and inspiring others to help out…Board games,
Halo 2,Thinking about and debating the subjective/objective values of various things/systems/ etc…“Snap Snapâ€
I'd like to meet:
Who I wish I could've met:
Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, Douglas Adams
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Who I would like to meet:
Bjork, Peter Gabriel, Talvin Singh.
Arthur C. Clark.
Wes Anderson.
...I like honest, forthright, down to earth people…
Music:
Bjork, Talvin Singh, Peter Gabriel, Salif Kieta, Flotation Walls, Sigur Ros, Joseph Arthur, Karsh Kale, Sting, Sasha, The Police, David Gray, Thee Silver Mt. Zion..., Lisa Gerard, Lamb, The Gypsy Kings, Three Fish, GSY!BE, Bebel, Astrud and Joao Gilberto, Seu Jorge, Tool, System of a Down (though really only about 40%), Elbow, Miles Davis, Massive Attack, Blackstar, Elliot, Common, Finley Quaye, The Roots, Son Volt, Bob Marley, Mum, Sinatra, Flamming Lips, Tony Bennet, Cee-lo, King Brit, Miguel Migs, Radiohead, MotherLoveBone, Tears For Fears, Talking Heads, early DMB, Tiara, Lume, Nymb, Hanz Zimmer, James Newton Howard, Armor for Sleep, Athlete, Mogwai, Coldplay, Modest Mouse, Tom Petty, Tori Amos, The Strokes, The Doves, The Twilight Singers, Brad, Satchel, Weezer, Wasis Diop, U2, The Unit, NIN, The Zombies, The Beatles, a little bit of The Stones, some Prince, Michael Jackson (Off the Wall and Thriller)…
... It could go on for a long time.I like finding new music, and have the biggest CD collection of the people I know personally.
If you have a good band, or know of a good band, I’d like to hear them.
Movies:
Rushmore, Amelie, Dead Poets Society, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Goonies, The Breakfast Club, The Others, The Life Aquatic, Lost in Translation, Adaptation, The Fifth Element, The Big Lebowski, Se7en, Eternal Sunshine, The Lady in the Water, Danny the Dog, Donnie Darko, The Godfather (I and II), 12 Monkeys, Saving Private Ryan, A Mighty wind, Unbreakable, Best In Show, Office Space, Kingpin, Something About Mary, Crouching Tiger, Anchorman, Spinal Tap, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Alien, Dirty Pretty Things, The Village, Aliens3, Rounders, A Very Long Engagement, Fightclub, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, Pulp Fiction, Spies like Us, Planes Trains and Automobiles, and oddly I find enjoyment when watching the Sound of Music and The Wizard of Oz...I like making fun of bad movies... and will watch them in the theatre even, just for a laugh.
I like "horror/suspence" movies, but rarely are they very good :(
Television:
The Office (UK version), Arrested Developement, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, The Chappelle Show, Family Guy, Mr. Show, MST3K...I often watch (with friends) and get frustrated by the arbitrary, poorly handled competitive shows such as Survivor, Amazing Race and The Apprentice.
Books:
Many, many, many books... I often get distracted from a book mid-way, and often have several books hanging out there to be finished. I often re-read books many times.NonFiction.
Jared Diamond, Simon Singh, Richard Dawkins,Matt Ridley
Carl Sagan,Jason Jennings, Laurence Haughton, Robert Zubrin, Malcolm Gladwell...
Books on History, Technology, Science, Human Nature, Space Exploration, Business, Language and Cultural. Travel books.Fiction.
Harry Potter, The Wheel of Time, Arthur C. Clark, H.P. Lovecraft, Short Story compilations, Ursula K. Le Guin,Neal Stephenson, Gregory Maguire, Chris Van Allsburg... lots more.Comics: Dave Sim (before he went completely nuts), Scott McCloud, Travis Charest, Jhonen Vasquez, Ariel Schrag, Mike Mignola, Alex Ross...Will add later.
Heroes:
Richard Feynman, Douglas Adams... I think they would have liked each other a lot.
... Also: Peter Gabriel (not for stuff like 'Sledgehammer' of course - but for things like his Realworld Label, 'Passion', 'Ovo', etc...)
