dan bern, erin mckeown, the decemberists, modest mouse, aphex twin, jeff buckley, atmosphere, slug, sage francis, brother ali, aceyalone, freestyle fellowship, the bus driver, mos def, DEL, prince paul, cibo matto, meg lee chin, ruby, the blue man group, the moldy peaches, neutral milk hotel, radiohead, dead milkmen, less than jake, the dancehall crashers, john lee hooker, R.L burnside, dj shortkut, dancehall / ragga / regge, capleton, james brown, george clinton, bob dylan, paul simon, morphine, john zorn, funk, DJs Foursqare, q-bert, MixMastaMike, They Might Be Giants, jeff buckley, beatles, paul simon, tom waits, the hulkamaniac CD (check out the pythons baby), sigur ros, mogwai, the dresden dolls, the postal service, death cab for cutie, the notwist, beulah, interpol, mates of state, badly drawn boy, built to spill, bjork, the muppets, wierd al, etc.... [a long and varied list]
Movies
Serenity, Spirited Away, LOTR, fight club, 300, lucky number slevin, american beauty, dark days, adaptation, amelie, Pi, the price of milk, the princess bride, blazing saddles, the blues brothers, farscape, cowboy bebop (the series + movie), twin peaks (the series), firefly & serenity, royal tennenbaums, detroit rock city, almost famous, matrix, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, city of the lost children, almost anything monty python, anything terry gilliam (BRAZIL), happy gilmore, little nicky, supertroopers, F911, bowling for columbine, documenteries, BBC/PBS/Discovery specials, jet li - ledgend, the italian job, crouching tiger hidden dragon, hero, kill bill (1 & 2), eddie izzard, moulin rouge, hate, the fog of war, devil's playground, supersize me, anchorman, harold and kumar go to white castle, the nightmare before christmas, any pixar movie...
Television
fuck television! (though I do download shows)
Books
robert heinland, vernor vinge, neal stepheson (any), marget weise & tracy hickman (deathgate cycle), neuromancer (william gibson), hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy (douglas adams), hyperion series (dan simmons), sarah vowell, david sedaris, al franken, schrodenger's cat / illuminatus / et. al. (robert anton wilson), where are you going (swami muktananda), brief history of time (stephen hawkin), how stuff works, the birthday book, explodingdog.com's (Sam Brown) book, dancing naked in the mind field (kary mullis), the giving tree (shell silverstein).... [a lot more]
Heroes
ben franklin, dan bern, kary mullis, jan arnow (LOU), paul adams (LOU), sarah vowell, the anti-bush (where-ever he/she is), you?
LAMP, dynamic sites with focused UI and a minimization of bells and whistles.
I administer IIS / ASP servers at work and don't ever want to have to do so again.
Who I'd like to meet: well... artists, musicians, geeks, communicators, haters of "the man", people i already know... people I don't yet know but who know people I know and thus think they should know me... scientists. dan bern. neal stephenson. kary mullis. gwendolen books... anyone with something interesting to say, who can deal with me possibly not agreeing with what they say... (though, i usually perfer "uncool" and "unpopular" people, as i fit in better)
if (cute and/or funny and/or smart and/or interesting and/or crazy and/or passionate and/or a good person) and (honest and not sketchy) == i'll be happy.
How are you? I see you've been busy, to say the least... Hope all is well in your world. We should have a GJ reunion one day this summer or something...
A day late...I know- sorry- I didn't forget-just no internet connection yesterday-cuz you know my shit is stolen!!! we gotta beg our neighbor to turn his router on! Anyway... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!! Damn you're old!
