I'm 25, from Long Island, a big Yankees fan, and a recent SUNY Albany grad.
Music, baseball, time with friends, good books, etc.
Someone who challenges me, Sir Francis Bacon, William Van Orange Nassau III, William Van Orange Nassau I, George Steinbrenner, Joe Torre, William Shakespeare, Jesus Christ, JK Rowling, Tom Clancy, and a whole bunch of random people that few people know of/know about.
Abandoned Pools, Aerosmith, Alexisonfire, Ammon-V2, A Perfect Circle, Appleseed Cast, Aqualung, The Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, As Tall As Lions, Azure Ray, Badly Drawn Boy, Bayside, The Beatles, Beck, Beethoven, Benny Goodman, The Beta Band, Bill Withers, Billy Joel, Billy Talent, The Black Keys, Bloc Party, Bob Dylan, The Bravery, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Broken Social Scene, Cake, Calexico, Christopher O' Riley, Circa Survive, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Cloud Room, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, Copeland, Counting Crows, Copeland, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Cure, Cursive, Damien Rice, The Dandy Warhols, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, The Decemberists, Desaparecidos, Dinosaur Jr., Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Don McLean, The Doors, Duncan Sheik, The Eagles, Edith Piaf, Eisley, Elbow, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Explosions In The Sky, The Faint, The Fall of Troy, Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, The Fratelli's, The Fray, The Frontier Index, The Futureheads, Gary Jules, Genesis, George Winston, Gin Blossoms, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Goo Goo Dolls, Gordon Lightfoot, Greymarket, The Guess Who, Guster, Head Automatica, Heatmiser, Hellogoodbye, The Hives, Jimi Hendrix, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Ism, Jack Johnson, Jackson Waters, James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Jethro Tull, Johnny Cash, John Mayer, Jimmy Eat World, Kaiserchiefs, Kansas, Kasabian, Keane, The Killers, The Kooks, Leadbelly, Led Zeppelin, Live, Longwwave, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Madeleine Peyroux, Mates of State, Marcy Playground, Maroon 5, The Mars Volta, Mewithoutyou, The Misfits, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Motion City Soundtrack, Muse, The Music, Neil Diamond, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Pornographers, Nick Drake, Nightmare of You, Nina Simone, Nine Days, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Norah Jones, Norman Greenbaum, O.A.R., Oasis, The Offspring, OK GO, Paul Simon, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Pete Yorn, Peter Bjorn and John, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Placebo, Plain White T's, Portishead, Portugal the Man, Postal Service, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, R.E.M., The Raconteurs, Radiohead, R.A.T.M., Ray Charles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Relient K, Rolling Stones, Rufus Wainwright, Say Anything, Sean Lennon, Sebadoh, The Shins, Shout Out Louds, Silverchair, Silversun Pickups, Simon and Garfunkel, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Snow Patrol, Something Corporate, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Sparta, Steppenwolf, The Stereophonics, The Steve Miller Band, The Stills, Stone Temple Pilots, The Stray Cats, Straylight Run, Stroke 9, The Strokes, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, Sunny Day Real Estate, Switchfoot, Taking Back Sunday, Tchaikovsky, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, The Thermals, Third Eye Blind, Thom Yorke, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Tonic, Tool, TV On The Radio, Under the Influence of Giants, Underoath, U2, Van Morrisson, The Vaselines, The Velvet Underground, Venetian Snares, Vertical Horizon, Violent Femmes, The Von Bondies, The Wallflowers, We Are Scientists, Weezer, The White Stripes, The Who, Wolf Parade, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Good Will Hunting, Dr. Strangelove, The Natural, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, Ray, Spiderman I and II, Superman I and IV, Empire Records, High Fidelity, Batman I, the Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Citizen Kane, Patton, Saving Private Ryan, the Matrix, HP, Almost Famous, Ace Ventura, Finding Forrester, The Maltese Falcon, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Great Dictator, Seinfeld, Indiana Jones, The Scout, Gettsyburg, King Kong, National Treasure, and more.
Religion used to be the opiate of the masses. Now it's television.
The Tempest, Othello, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Farewell to Arms, Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, Snows of Mount Kilimanjaro, The Fifth Column, Catch 22, God Knows, Closing Time, Candide, Utopia, The Incredible Lightness of Being, The Wealth of Nations, American Sphinx, Hamilton, Animal Farm, 1984, Brave New World, The Catcher in the Rye, Paradise Lost, Cicero, The Teammates, Summer of '49, Moneyball, Mind Game, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Guns of August, The Zimmerman Telegram, Homage to Catalonia, Patton: Genius for War, Founding Brothers, The Stranger, Harry Potter, When Genius Failed, Nicholas & Alexandra, Peter the Great, The Prince, The Art of War, Being There, The Painted Bird, many, many, many more. This is perhaps 10% of the books I love.
Jesus Christ, Jonathan Swift, Kurt Cobain, Abe Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, William Shakespeare, Sir Francis Bacon, Ernest Hemingway, Desiderus Erasmus, John Locke, Joseph Heller, Marcus Aurelius and many more. ..