all things baseball, collapsing new buildings, la loisaida, box scores, box sets, box seats, besando y chichando con surfer Rosa, the complete recordings of _____, organizing and labor, los espejos y la copula, complex variables, plain bagels with butter, sonetos, field recordings, appalachia, emptying the cube (with the sphere), well-preserved mummies, abstract algebra, five-tool players, 19th century baseball, the accumulation of bowling scores, Don Justo and his cathedral, the pre-socratics
I'd like to meet:
as far as historical figures: Pele, Thomas Alva Edison, Luis Rosales (to ask him if he knew Juan Penacoba).
other than that, I really like meeting friendly people who like to talk.
Music:
t rex, bowie, stooges, joy division, smiths, r.e.m., the gritty midi gang, elvis costello, pavement, public enemy, beatles, hold steady, hold steady, hold steady, the band, bob dylan, woody guthrie, bruce springsteen, hank williams, gram parsons, neutral milk hotel, go-betweens, mountain goats, missing foundation, flaming lips, pixies, tapes n' tapes, mission of burma, wire, the fall, swell maps, squeeze, new pornographers, yo la tengo, talking heads, john coltrane, dexter gordon, lester young, thelonious monk, billie holiday, charlie patton, clifford gibson, sleepy john estes, son house, blind lemon jefferson, blind blake, reverend gary davis, mississippi fred mcdowell, mississippi john hurt, charley jordan, lightnin' hopkins, skip james, furry lewis, robert pete williams, blind uncle gaspard
Movies:
Bunuel, Groundhog Day, Eternal Sunshine of the Spoless Mind, The Truman Show, all those Indiana Jones movies, the original three Star Wars films, Marx Brothers films, Ghost World, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore
Television:
Arrested Development, The Simpsons, The Office, Family Guy, and The Honeymooners.
Books:
thomas hardy, borges, gongora, Basic Complex Analysis, Woody Guthrie: A Life, Bound For Glory, Invisible Republic
Heroes:
Pete Missing (www.petermissing.com, www.missingfoundation.com and www.myspace.com/missingfoundation), Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Eugene V. Debs, John Brown,
