i like to take pictures:( http://flickr.com/photos/s_allen_p/ )but mostly i like music and stuff.
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I also like BMX bikes
Music (and this is a big one). Good art, includig photography (hard to find. Schiele, Starn Bros., Sieff, Hawkinson, Hockney(photos), arthur rackham, maxfield parrish ). Riding my bike instead of driving (when i can). Video games (they're better for you than tv). Playing guitar.
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the bands in my collection i'm most likely to turn to:(In alphabetical order and missing hundreds) animal collective, antipop consortium, chet atkins, autechre, beach boys, beastie boys, beatles, birthday party, black flag, blonde redhead, boards of canada, bowie, broken social scene, built to spill, camper van beethoven, casino vs. japan, cat power, cheap trick, clipse, cocorosie, cocteau twins, dillinger escape plan, dinosaur jr, dizzy rascal, elo, fennesz, 400 blows, idaho falls, joanna newsom, lady sovereign, lambchop, led zeppelin, lilys, m83, medicine, mf doom (related projects), my bloody valentine, misfits, modest mouse, mogwai, Mu, neutral milk hotel, nico, gram parsons, paul mccartney and wings, pavement, pink floyd, pole, suzi quatro, maurice ravel, frank sinatra, nancy sinatra, silkworm, sparklehorse, squarepusher, starflyer 59, swervedriver, t.rex, unwound, van halen (roth era only of course) velvet underground, neil young (i'm more into his acoustic country tinged stuff, not so much his rock side)...
movies that marvel: drugstore cowboy, Rushmore, Catch-22, In The Mood For Love, 2046, Raging Bull, The Big Lebowski (which will here represent all their movies), The Elephant Man, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, I (heart) huckabees, The Incredibles, The Wizard of Oz, The Shining, Apocalypse Now...
The Simpsons (seasons 1-8, sorry i have to be specific)and Twin Peaks have so far been television's peak, but also good are Aquateen Hunger Force, South Park, Da Ali G Show, The Daily Show, News Radio, Mission Hill, Sleeper Cell. also UFC, it's the only sport i watch.
I read wikipedia articles. i learn about such things as "philosphical zombies" and "head transplants" (apparently already done on monkeys, though they become paraplegics),"time cubes",MMA fighters, and all-kinds of stupid stuff. my all-time favorite books:His Dark Materials trilogy, Mere Christianity, Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, The Sirens Of Titan, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, Moon Palace, American Tabloid, Dancing Wu-Li Masters.
I'd like to sing like brian and carl wilson (and at times like glenn danzig), scream like nick cave (birthday party era), play guitar like j. mascis and jimmy page, compose like Maurice Ravel.