travel, literature, human rights, women's rights, art nouveau, photography, expatriation, music, tomfoolery, shenanigans, vintage fashion, hookah, jasmine tea, late night conversations in cafes, cars, and quiet neighborhoods, the relentless pursuit of knowledge and experience, being mildly pretentious (but very friendly!), knitting, completing my Pokedex, the essential truths and fallacies of the universe, rocking out. VERITAS.
I'd like to meet: gentle people, people of substance and grace. Compassionate people, embracing life and experience. The perpetually restless. Literature geeks, music geeks, science geeks, geeks in general. Conversationalists and contemplatives. People who read books for the style and craft of writing. Conspiracy theorists. Seekers, activists, outcasts (and Outkast). Enlightened ones, gurus, mystics, shamans, modern-day prophets.
No work-party-TV zombies, just passing time. No ever-so-clever cynics. Cynicism is weakly-sublimated cowardice, a thinly veiled doctrine of narcissistic convenience. The cynic adopts a world-view that exempts him/her from responsibility to self and others, then calls him/herself a 'realist.' I have no use for their kind, I'd eat them for lunch but I'm sure they taste bitter too.
I'm equally disinterested in meeting smarmy dudes.
Elliott Smith, The Kinks, Ella Fitzgerald, Willie Dixon, Devics, Pulp, Pinback, Louis Armstrong, Aphex Twin, the Smiths, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Tori Amos, Jeff Buckley, Blur, the Cure, Black Heart Procession, the Flaming Lips, Boards of Canada, Massive Attack, Jimmy Eat World, The Yardbirds, Eartha Kitt, Nina Simone, Vivaldi, Tool, Depeche Mode, Crystal Method, Deathcab for Cutie, Alison Krauss, Daft Punk, Eagles of Death Metal, Air, Broken Social Scene, Gorillaz, Magnetic Fields, Neko Case, Billie Holiday, Hall and Motherf*ckin Oates.
a few I recommend: Metropolis (SERIOUSLY), Croupier, the BBC miniseries of Pride and Prejudice, Woman of the Year (yay Katherine Hepburn), Almost Famous, Miyazaki films like My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away.
I don't own a TV, but I wish I had the Weather Channel, the History Channel, and Comedy Central for the Daily Show. The Mighty Boosh is the greatest show to ever grace the airwaves, but it doesn't come on stateside... thank goodness for the internet. Black Books. The IT Crowd. I like the songs from Flight of the Conchords.
Baudelaire, Blake, Camus, Donne, Zola, Leroux, Nabokov, Wilde, T. S. Eliot, Thackeray, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thomas Merton, Henry James, Will Durant, Jane Austen, Victor Hugo, C. S. Lewis, Miguel Ruiz, Rousseau, Rolheiser, Henri Nouwen, St. Teresa of Avila, etc...
gnosticism, mysticism, classicism, romanticism... even some existentialism... but hardly anything modern, and no I have not read any David Sedaris.
Currently Reading: Not casebooks, haha!
They got me to trade all my heroes for ghosts. Except for http://fishel.tumblr.com. Davey Dance is my hero this week.