My sister recently told me that I'm complex. I don't feel complex, but she knows me pretty well so it probably bears some truth.

In my daydream life I'm getting paid to make films and write stories. In my real life, I'm making films and writing things without the money and getting paid to sterilize surgical instruments at a hospital. It's a close enough 2nd for now.

I tend to be a calm, rational person. I see all people as equal, and driven by the same desire and right to happiness and contentment. I'm a pacifist.

I'm an INFJ for those into that sort of thing.

I'm attempting this with various levels of success:

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment;
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau

Taking in new and varied information, applying it to totally unrelated areas.

Also, adapting my outlook to account for new information.

Staying calm.

Thinking more than speaking, there's a few topics of conversation where this is totally untrue though.

Solving problems creatively.

I'm quiet until I've gotten to know people, so probably that.

In general, except for foods (one of these things is not like the other ones?), I'm all over the genre map. If your music, writing, film, doesn't have something worthwhile to tell me, it better be pretty damned good aesthetically.

Books: anything by Joseph Campbell, HP Lovecraft, The Neverending Story, Heart of Darkness, Watchmen, Sandman, Snow Crash, film related books, Ender's Game, Slaughterhouse 5, Walden, more that I'm not remembering....

Movies: Directors- Bergman, Kurosawa, Lang, Renoir, Tarantino, Aronofsky, Miyazaki, Scorsese, Coppola, Ki Duk Kim, Christopher Nolan, Guillermo Del Torro, Coens, Leone. Other films - Akira, The Manchurian Candidate (the real one), Eyes Without a Face, Paprika, Traffic, The Warriros, The Way of the Gun, Equillibrium, Hero, Hard Boiled, Good Night and Good Luck, many more...

Music: Frodus, Tom Morello, Narcissus, the Blinding Light, Blue Cheer, the Beatles, Johnny Cash, The Killers, Exmortus, Eric B. and Rakim, Saetia, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Circle Takes the Sqaure, Hot Cross, Mew, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Lengsel, At the Gates, Andrew W.K., The Black Angels, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Gentle Guest, Beirut, Mogwai, Dj Shadow, Converge, Cult of Luna, Neurosis, Murder by Death, Mastadon, Neil Young's Deadman Soundtrack, more and more and more,

Food: easier to go with things I don't like - tomatoes, watermelon, celery, I'm iffy on seafood.

I don't watch TV, it's a lousy medium.

Stories
Questions
Driving
Solitude
A few close friends
Change

I'm fairly (ok, really) introspective, so I spend a lot of time thinking about where I'm at, how I got here, what do I need to be doing to be me, etc...

Plots, characters, scenes, shots, riffs, phrases, dialog, images.

An amalgamation of philosophies, theologies, and other aspects of humanity and the universe.

Probably working or at a movie, or making a movie.