Movies (duh), music, the natural world, social justice issues, politics, international issues, intercultural issues, dogs, other languages (Japanese, French, Swahili, Italian), FOOD!(cooking, eating, going out to eat), cross-country skiing, hiking and biking.
Music
Boards of Canada, Peter Gabriel, William Orbit, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Afro Pop, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, the Beatles, disco, Kasabian, Scissor Sisters, Balkan wailing, 80s pop, Animal Logic, Basia, Goldfrapp, Kraftwerk, Paul Oakenfold, Lauryn Hill, Chemical Brothers, list goes on.
Movies
Like Water for Chocolate, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Wedding Banquet, Three Kings, A River Runs Through It, Grindhouse, Lord of the Rings, City of God, The Pillow Book, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Seven Samurai, Airplane!, Office Space, etc. etc.
Television
Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Jeopardy, Travel Channel, Food Channel, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, CNN, Aquateen Hunger Force, The Show with ZeFrank (does Internet TV count?).
Books
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, The Jungle Book, Heart of Darkness, anything by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Rubicon, most things by Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, or Arthur C. Clarke, Galapagos, absurdist and existentialist literature, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy.
Heroes
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, John Glenn, Carl Sagan, Ang Lee, Harvey Fierstein, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, Mom.
About me: I'm a film director with a few shorts under my belt (though I only normally wear one pair at a time...'ar 'ar 'ar) getting ready to move from Seattle down to sunny L.A. I love learning about the world and see life as one big, daring adventure. (To steal a turn of phrase from someone.) I strive to make documentaries and fictional works that reveal something new about the nature of the world, but that are fun to watch.
Who I'd like to meet: People who genuinely love life and who try to create beautiful and interesting things, or who appreciate those who do. People who will make me grow and show me something new.
Sounds like you've been busy. That's great! I totally understand how hard it is to find a job there. I tried going through temp agencies at one point too and they really never found me anything. I'm looking forward to seeing how the eco-travel videos come out & of course would love a copy of mine once it's ready :-) We just finished shooting a short film a few weeks ago and are now getting ready to start post. Other than that, Nick's waiting for an offer letter from a company he's been interviewing with and I'm getting ready to start focusing all my energy on acting and production again. No more "real" job.
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