I think everyone's familiar with the "I like/you like" stuff. I figured I'd change this up a bit. I'll give you a set of 'hypothetical' situations, along with some answers that I would be looking for in someone I was interested in meeting; they're all 'correct' answers by the way. Feel free to insert your own answers here if/when you reply to me. Ready? Here goes...

I suggest that we go out for a day hike in the mountains or the desert. Nothing like running the length of the PCT, maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 to 15 miles depending on what the terrain was like.
you say: Awesome!
or, you dig out your Schad book with markers on all of the hikes that you want to do in it and pick one.
or, you suggest we go to Vancouver and hike there instead, eh?

I'm in the mood for some shashlik. My treat. I suggest we go to the Russian restaurant and get some.
you say: Cool!
or, you say: Why don't we make some of our own?
or, you say: Why don't we go back to Moscow and get it there. It was better there anyways.

We're at my place, and I suggest we watch a movie (I don't have cable TV, movies are all I watch).
you say: Excellent
or, you say: Remember that movie we saw, _Das Lieben der Anderen_ (The Lives of Others)? I want to see it again.
or, you say: Only if we can spoon.

I suggest we spend a weekend somewhere. Let's say for example, Santa Barbara. (which, by the way, is a *great* city for walking around in).
you say: Really? Nice!
or, you say: Can we take the train up?
or, you say: Can we ride your motorcycle up?

A band I want to see is coming to town and playing at the Casbah. You're somewhat interested in the band, so when I ask you to go with me...
you say: Sure
or, you say: Sure, let me scrounge around my purse, I think I have some drink coupons left over from last time.
or: You go, and you ended up liking the show so much you suggest we drive up to OC/LA and see the show there too.

I could go on like this for days, but this should be enough for you to know if you'd be interested in meeting me at some point or not.

My attempts to play guitar can be comedy (I suck but I still love it), I enjoy a lot of different kinds of music and seeing bands play live. Once a month or so I hike the mountains/deserts. Passionate about photography, Friday nights are often movie nights (indie films, documentaries, and some mainstream releases). For the day job, it's computer things, as well as being something fun for me to do on the side as well.

I'm a jack of all trades, master of none. I like the pictures I take a lot, hopefully you will too, or at least let me down gently...

I smile a lot for no particular reason.

Books: Mostly fiction and technical/computer books. I dig Carl Hiaasen a lot. I'm still pondering over the first Postsecret book, it was on my want list for a while and I finally went and got it. For a bunch of postcards, it's given me a lot of food for thought. Not a book, but I do have a subscription to Rolling Stone, a friend of mine got it for me a few years ago.

Movies: anything that entertains, which can include some blockbusters, foreign films (Amelie, Cidade de Deus/City of God ), animation (Spirited Away). I have noticed that I am watching foreign films more and more, including a lot of Russian movies. My favorite Russian movie so far is Белое Солнце Пустынй (Beloye Solntse Pustyni - White Sun of the Desert), it's the Russian equivalent to a Western, an 'Eastern'. Were you to become a Russian space tourist, you would end up watching this movie with your fellow cosmonauts before you launched into space.

Music: It's easier to say what kinds of music I don't like, which would be classical and 'modern' country (anything newer than say 1970 or so). I'm always looking forward to a great live show, I sometime organize trips around shows. For example, I saw Queens of the Stone Age in Moscow in 2005, and I scalped front row tickets to see My Morning Jacket in at Radio City in New York in June 2008. They killed it, it was a very fun trip.

Foods: I'll eat anything with chicken in it, and I'm ethnic cuisine-friendly. I'm also pretty much a chocolate junkie.

in random order, laughter, large bodies of water, love, music, friends, [sun|moon|candle]light

Everything. It's hard for me not to think sometimes, which can be great or can suck depending on the situation. I find that I have the greatest clarity of thought when I'm taking a shower in the morning. I haven't spent a lot of time pondering why that is so however.

watching a movie, at a club listening to a band, or hacking on software I write

One of my favorite times of the day is when I just wake up. I will look at the trees outside my window while I lay in bed and think, and there may be a cat near by to scratch. Oh, and I get my chones (slang for "boxer shorts") tie-dyed. Seriously.

you think there's more to me than what I put in here and you want to find out all about it.