My interests include writing, reading, music, films, photography, and beginning sentences with the word and.
the creator of the universe...and Emo Phillips...if they don't turn out to be the same person, that is.
Beatles, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Built to Spill, Byrds, Captain Beefheart, Clinic, Danielson Family, David Bowie, Dinosaur Jr., Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington, Echo & the Bunnymen, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliot Smith, The Fall, The Fiery Furnaces, Frank Black, Handsome Family, Howlin Wolf, Iggy Pop, Hendrix, Kinks, Leadbelly, Lou Reed, Low, Meat Puppets, Mike Watt, Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Olivia Tremor Control, Pavement, Pere Ubu, Phil Ochs, Pixies, Pink Floyd, Syd Barret, Rain Parade, Rentals, Replacements, Robyn Hitchcock, Sebadoh, Simon & Garfunkel, Slint, Smiths, Softboys, Sonic Youth, Sparklehorse, Stephen Malkmus, Stooges, Swell Maps, Television, Tom Waits, Treepeople, Vaselines, Velvet Underground, Early Weezer, Wire, X, XTC, Wall of Voodoo, John Prine, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash
Chinatown, On the Waterfront, Fargo, Eraserhead, Citizen Kane, Raising Arizona, Brain Candy, The Elephant Man, Wild at Heart, Harold and Maude, Blue Velvet, The Crying Game, Silence of the Lambs, Easy Rider, Office Space, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Deconstructing Harry, Spaceballs, Rosemary's Baby, Brazil, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Notorious, Repulsion, Grapes of Wrath, Westworld, Star Wars, Way Out West, Hot Fuzz, Logan's Run, Batman, Annie Hall, UHF, Alien, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Storefront Hitchcock, Dune, Amelie, The Straight Story... there are more, but it's too much to think about right now
The Kids in the Hall is the greatest show of all time, if you disagree with me, then you are wrong. Actually Twin Peaks may be the greatest show of all time, I'm not quite sure. Wonder Showzen is pretty cool too, and The Simpsons were a great invention. Oh yeah and the Twilight Zone. I hardly ever watch TV though, television is painful these days.
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Slaughter House-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger Choke by Chuck Palahniuk Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut Perfect Sound Forever by Rob Jovanovic
Kurt Vonnegut and Calvin and Hobbes"Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?" -Kurt Vonnegut