Martial Arts, music, fine arts, science, bonfires, skateboarding, snorkeling, hiking, comics, biking, stimulating conversation, going to art shows, scrabble, punk rock, walking dogs, picnicking, films, unexpected adventures, & eating exotic cuisine.
Artists, chivalrous men, intellectuals, musicians, martial artists, visionaries, pet owners, rocket scientists, scrabble players, and folks with talent and/or depth. I would also like to find a girlfriend for my dog Merv.
In my car right now: Punk rock, Appalachian, Blues,Lounge, Pop, Opera, & anything w/good lyrics. Nick Cave, The Upper Crust, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, Marc Spitz Freestyle, The Bar Feeders, Julie London, Nip Drivers,Billie Holliday, The Distillers, FYP, Ukefink, Black Flag, Cows, Miss Derringer, The Billy Nayer Show, Billy Childish, The Devics, Maximum Honkie, and a bunch of classical cds.
So many, but some of my all time favorites are: Being John Malkovich, Blue Velvet, Midnight Cowboy, City of Lost Children, Dead Alive, The Jerk, Evil Dead 2, Betty Blue, El Norte, Forrest Gump, The Big Lebowski, Being There, Delicatessen, Amelie, Amores Perros, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Border Incident, Buffalo 66, Pulp Fiction, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Triplets of Bellville, 21 Grams, Clockwork Orange, A Bug's Life, Monster's Inc., Bowling for Columbine, The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, A Very Long Engagement, Spinal Tap, Petulia, Welcome to the Doll House, Kill Bill, Around the Bend, Ong Bak--Thai Warrior, and all of the Lord of the Rings.
Flight of the Conchords,The Office, Six Feet Under, The Dog Whisperer, The Simpsons, Dave Chapelle Show, Dog, SNL, The Sopranos, South Park, Xena, King of the Hill, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Junkyard Wars, Turner network, Mad TV, Conan O'Brien,The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Trading Spaces, Christopher Lowell, trashy reality shows (if I am in the mood), and almost anything on the Science, National Geographic, or Discovery Channel that is truly scientific. I don't watch much t.v. nowadays, but I enjoy it when I do. I also love a good foreign film.
In the past couple years my favorites that I have read are Survivor, Choke, Diary, Life of Pi, Ask The Dust, The Overcoat, Stupid White Men, Coraline, Running with Scissors, Crime and Punishment Dry, Under the Banner of Heaven, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress your Family in Courduroy and Denim, Lord Vishnu's Love Handles, My Year of Meats, A Short History of Nearly Everything, A People's History of the United States, A Long Way Down, and a plethora of underground comics. My all time favorite book is Geek Love.
Nikola Tesla, Lauren Bacall, Uma Thurman, Evan Dorkin, Albert Einstein, and Xena.