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David

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About Me


My Interests

music, movies, books, beer, home improvement, gardening, travel, swimming

Music:

POPULAR:
Air Tori Amos Fiona Apple
The Arcade Fire The Beatles
Beck Belle & Sebastian Björk
David Bowie Kate Bush Cake
The Cardigans Cat Power
Leonard Cohen Elvis Costello
Sheryl Crow The Cure
The Dresden Dolls Bob Dylan
Brian Eno Fleetwood Mac
Franz Ferdinand PJ Harvey
Nellie McKay Joni Mitchell
My Morning Jacket Joanna
Newsom NIN Laura Nyro
Outkast Pixies Prince Pulp
Radiohead Lou Reed REM
Red Hot Chili Peppers The
Rolling Stones The Shins
Smashing Pumpkins
Sufjan Stevens Steely Dan
Super Furry Animals U2
Neil Young Rufus Wainwright

CLASSICAL:
Barber Beethoven Brahms
Bruckner Chopin Hindemith
Janacek Mahler Mozart
Part Prokofiev Puccini
Rachmaninoff Schubert
Scriabin Shostakovich
R. Strauss Tchaikovsky
Vaughan Williams Verdi

OTHER:
Sondheim!

Movies:

Blue Velvet Vertigo Amadeus
Fargo Network Cabaret Clue
Sunset Boulevard The Shining
Pulp Fiction Orlando Ed Wood
Chinatown Strictly Ballroom
Lawrence of Arabia Soapdish
Taxi Driver Star Wars IV-VI
The Silence of the Lambs
Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind Mrs Parker
and the Vicious Circle
The Last Picture Show

Television:

The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, My So-Called Life

(I rarely watch TV, but when I do it's usually CNN)

Books:

Lolita Ulysses Moby Dick
The Sound and the Fury
The Charioteer The Passion
The Bell Jar Vile Bodies
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
The Naked Civil Servant
Slaughterhouse-Five
and almost anything by
Shakespeare

Heroes:

Gore Vidal, Rufus Wainwright, Ann Richards, Abraham Lincoln, Alfred the Great, Aeneas