music and musicians, Ghanaian dance/drumming, laughing (I pretty much can't go more than an hour without laughing about something), good movies, bad movies, good books, Landmark Theaters, friends' artwork, candles and incense, friendly poker games, understanding people, understanding myself, weeping camels, and being amazingly cool.
I'd like to meet:
your mom, people who appreciate "your mom" jokes
Music:
Beatles (especially John Lennon), Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, CSNY, Nick Drake, Leo Kottke, Django Reinhardt, Van Morrison, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Velvet Underground, Janis Joplin, James Taylor, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Sting, Television, Captain Beefheart, Steely Dan, ELO, Dave Matthews, Mason Jennings!!, Iron and Wine, old Jason Mraz, Cubanismo, BVSC, BERSUIT VERGARABAT, Caetano Veloso, OS MUTANTES!!!, Elis Regina, Adriana Calcanhotto, Juanes, Ozomatli, Manu Chao, basically ALL latin music, Fela Kuti, Antibalas, Miriam Makeba, The Count von Count, NBA Radio Show, Al Green, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Jill Scott, James Brown, Pointer Sisters (oh i'm serious!), Chris Isaak, Michael Jackson, Jamiroquai, Bob Marley, Pinback, The Album Leaf, Feist, The Arcade Fire, !!!, Hadag Nahash, Beit Habubot, Shotei Hanevua, Cibo Matto, Cat Power, The Postal Service, Spoon, The Black Keys, Pedro the Lion, Coldplay, Radiohead, Bjork, Fiona Apple, Sigur Ros, Air, Tom Waits, Brian Eno, The Decemberists, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elliott Smith, MUSE (I freaking love them), Interpol, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Do Make Say Think, Zero7, Portishead, Stereolab, Mono, DJ Shadow, Deltron3030, Massive Attack, Mos Def, Pharcyde, Blackalicious, Queen, Erik Satie, Chopin, Miles Davis, Brad Mehldau, U2 and A LOT MORE!!!!!!
Movies:
Alice in Wonderland, Yellow Submarine, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Fantasia (old skool of course), Donald in Mathmagic Land, Anchorman, Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Harold and Maude, Best in Show, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Lost in Translation, Punch Drunk Love, Super Troopers, Kentucky Fried Movie, Spaceballs, The Big Lebowski, Zoolander, Baseketball, Virgin Suicides, GARDEN STATE, In Good Company, All the Real Girls (anything with Zooey Deschanel) Bridget Jones Diary, Clueless, Almost Famous, Wonder Boys, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Goodfellas, The Court Jester (has ANYONE other than my family seen this?), Monty Python movies, Beetlejuice, The Sword in the Stone, 12 Monkeys, Pulp Fiction, Bad Timing, Waking Life, Amelie, CITY OF GOD, Chocolat, Blue, Annie Hall, Broken Wings, Rodger Dodger, Volver, Eternal Sunshine..., Little Miss Sunshine, The Neverending Story, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Maria Full of Camel, Camel Sunset, A Camel at the End of the Camel, The Human Camel, The Grudge Camel, Bubba Ho-Camel...
Television:
I've pretty much switched to TV on DVD thanks to Netflix. I'm a big fan of Scrubs, The Office (british version), Arrested Development, Sex and the City, Mr. Show, Six Feet Under, and Family Guy. And I do watch the Daily Show/Colbert Report when I get the chance.
Books:
Miles (the autobiography), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Timequake, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Anything Kurt Vonnegut writes, even if it's his grocery list - i'm sure he finds a way to fit something funny on there... The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, Norweigan Wood (Murakami is my new favorite author), 1984, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Harry Potter books (yes, yes i'm part of the cult), The Martian Chronicles, Jane Eyre, The God of Small Things, Dharma Bums, Skinny Legs and All, Still life with Woodpecker, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and i'm currently reading: Sputnik Sweetheart, The Holographic Universe
