Athletics (I'm especially into Volleyball right now, Basketball, Football, Running); Hiking; Cooking; Music (see below...); Random Useless Trivia (although the kind that will eventually get you onto Jeopardy one day); History (especially religious); Travels and getting out of the NYC area; Art Museums; Concerts
I'd like to meet:
Other young adults who want to enjoy life, whether through play (athletics), conversation, or travels. I'm always up for getting some people together to play some volleyball, or to go for a hike outside of the city area. I'm interested in getting back into traveling, especially over to Europe. I want to get to know others who desire to grow in the walk with God. Wouldn't mind meeting those who enjoy some conversations about life, politics, religion, sports, over a good drink or two
Music:
All sorts of music. Where do I begin...
Classic Rock: Aerosmith; Allman Brothers; Beatles; Bowie; Clapton; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Doobie Brothers; Dylan; Eagles; Fleetwood Mac; Foreigner ("Carl, you're as Cold as Ice...") Genesis (Peter Gabriel as well as Phil Collins eras); Jethro Tull, Elton John (before he began to suck); Led Zeppelin; Marillion; Pink Floyd; The Police; Rolling Stones; Roxy Music; Simon and Garfunkel; Supertramp; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; U2 (come on, who doesn't like U2???); Van Halen; 'The bloody Ooo...'; YES (yeah, I like Prog Rock; so what?); Neil Young
80's: Bon Jovi; Chicago(I'm a sucker for smaltzy soft rock...); The Cure; Depeche Mode; Duran Duran; Echo and the Bunnymen; INXS; Michael Jackson (you have to admit, he had some fine music before he started giving little boys 'Jesus Juice'...); New Order; Tears for Fears; ZZ Top
Modern stuff: Aqualung; Coldplay; Doves; Engineers; The Feeling; David Gray; Hard-Fi(put on a great concert); Keane; Leaves; Porcupine Tree; Radiohead; Red Hot Chili Peppers; Super Furry Animals; Travis; The Verve; Robbie Williams
Classical: A lot of Baroque (anything by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, etc.); Renaissance and Baroque choral music (Byrd, Palestrina, Tye, Gibbons, Purcell); some Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens
I also enjoy a bit of Jazz, although that collection is much smaller...
Movies:
Mostly comedies (since real life is tragic enough): Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Airplane (both of them); any film with Christopher Guest in it/directed (including This is Spinal Tap); Anchorman; Billy Madison; The Pink Panther Movies (i.e. Peter Sellers, not Steve Martin). There are a few serious films as well: The Lion in Winter; Chariots of Fire (as a runner and a Christian, how could I not like this film?); Hoosiers and Miracles (second and third behind Chariots... as my favorite sports movies); The Big Kahuna; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; The Passion of Christ
Television:
Law and Order (the original series as well as SVU); Navy NCIS; Cold Case; Lost; Chapelle Show; The Office; I actually don't watch that much TV these days besides some sporting events here and there (Yankees, Giants, Rangers)
Books:
Anything that Roald Dahl has written; 'In the Name of the Rose', by Umberto Eco; 'Martian Chronicles', by Ray Bradbury; The Hitchhiker's Guide' Series, by Douglas Adams; 'Barchester Towers', by Anthony Trollope; Most books by Bill Bryson ('Notes from a Small Island' and 'Neither Here Nor There' being my particular favorites); 'The King's English' by Kingsley Amis (a delightful read recommended to me by one of my tutors at Oxford); 'The Brothers Karamazov' by Dostoyevsky; 'Mere Christianity' and the entire Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis; of course, I would be remiss if I did not add the Bible (though I have not read through the entire book yet)
Don't forget magazines: Q Music magazine; First Things; Touchstone
