I like lots of stuff, but it isn't usually stuff other people think is cool like bands or punk shows or excessive drinkning....I'm a nerd, I like reading and editing, drawing, making endless origami cranes that distract my fingers with their precise creases and folds. I enjoy audiobooks and cleaning my house. I like to sew and play with my cat, coax plants back to life after the thrill of watching them wilt with thirst. I love to write notes and letters to people on paper and notecards. I like to learn about stuff I don't know about (for example, did you know that when using intravenous needles, you can use either a vein or artery, but that arteries are far more difficult to get to? [amazing the knowlege that can be gleaned from x-heroin junkies if you bother to ask]). I like to hear how people work and what they think about stuff. My two worst flaws are the avid glee I take in making fun of people (biting sarcasm, sharp wit make me giggle like a kid in a candy store) and a deep and abiding prejudice against obese people who make me more angry than all the telemarketers in the mid-west.
People I already know, or people I knew, or people who want to have random fun with language and ideas and won't make any demands on me.
Lots of differnt stuff, I like Rolling Stones a lot (mostly their earlier stuff),. I'll admit, I like some girly music...Concrete Blonde, Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, those are a few that happen to be on my desktop at the moment. I have a little bit of a penchant for old school cock rock, AC/DC, that sort of thing. I don't listent to the radio except KNPR and an oldies station, so I don't know what's out on mainstream. But I'm pretty confident I'm not missing much. I don't like repetitive bubblegum rock; it all sounds the same. And the lyrics...sound like highschool poetry. And the lead singers all look the same, like they ar ebred somewhere. Always kinda scruffy but in a very clean way, always whiney and ball-less. But I don't like bump-and-grind music either. It's ok in its place on a dark dancefloor covered with drunk youngsters eager to f***. It may sound prudish, but I thinks it's tacky and classless to listen to music that is almost entirely about f***ing. Contrary to what one would think based on tv, radio, magazines say, sex isn't everything. Music usually bores me pretty quickly, no matter what it is. It just doesn't capture my mind enough. What I listen to most are audiobooks. I'm addicted to listening to books, especially when I'm cleaning or ona long drive. I don't feel so much like I am wasting time if I can read a book while cleaning the bathroom. The last book I listened to was terrible. I decided to try scifi/fantasy. Some book by Terry Brooks had great ratings and a decent plot summery, but good lord was it bad. Maybe scifi/fantasy readers are tasteless semi-literates. The dialogue and characterization was thin as well as brutally predictable and familiar. It was trying to be like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, a sweeping saga. But the writer just sucks. The diction really annoyed me; it was alternately simplistic, childish and incongerously extravagant and pompous terms.
Better off Dead, Tombstone, Usual Suspects, Frailty...movies that surprise me are good but I'll watch just about anything. White Oleander was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Don't watch it...think it may very well be of the devil.
Since it's summer, I can finally read books by choice. Right now I'm reading Where Angels Fear to Tread (E.M. Forster). I like satires of the British aristocracy set in early 20th century. One of my favorite authors is P.G. Wodehouse. But those books are purely amusement; they don't challenge or teach me anything except a vocab word or two.I'm also working on The White Boy Shuffle (Paul Beatty). It's such a brutally funny satire that I can only read a little at a time. Beaty skewers all different parts of society with insight and precision.Bill Bryson is another favorite; he's similar to the British writers I like in tone. He has written several books that are about certain places, sortof like travel journal, but with history and other stuff in it too. I'm reading The Mother Tongue:english and how it got that way. As you might guess, it's a history of the development of English. It's amazingly informative. When I'm reading, I always feel like I should be taking notes. He's one of the few authors that can convey complicated ideas with clarity and humor, making even dry information easy and fun to read.The best things I've read this summer are Frank Miller's Sin City comics. I've never read comics before...I love them!! And seriously, who can not love battling hookers who defend their turf with guns and swords!
None...putting a person on a pedestal like an idol is asking for disappointment.