sexy macintosh gagetry. kisses. 'heretofore and wherewithall'. i used to think it was all about design, but right now it's everything. it's become an amalgam of everything i've been exposed to over the years. it's lovely and frightening, to get a little older, to figure out that all the things you thought were fundamentally true might not actually be true, or may only be true if you turn it up-side-down and stop trying. it's uncomfortable and new, and well, it's going to be awesome. i swear.
my standards are too retarded for verbal quantification.
suburban/daytime urban hipster rock. i'm not ashamed! death cab for cutie, tegan & sara, m83, of montreal, ted leo & the pharmacists, bloc party, the killers, vhs or beta, interpol, hot hot heat, red house painters, azure ray, criteria, cursive (oh, cursive), dashboard, juliana hatfield, elvis costello, pedro the lion, iron & wine, band of horses, MEW, my bloody valentine, camera obscura, joshua radin, jose gonzales, stellastarr*, mobius band, doves, my chemical romance, coheed & cambria, codec & flexor, sigur ros, explosions in the sky, mogwai, mellowdrone, mates of state, built to spill, delays, tahiti 80, kings of convenience, phoenix depeche mode, pet shop boys, erasure, when in rome (evidently any gay late 80's early 90's), yo la tengo, kanye, justin, britney, christina, kelly, beyonce, missy, kylie - JUST LISTEN, i mean really. anything with hottt high hat usage. anything that invokes suicidal tendencies or overt self deprecation. bleepy music, but only when retardedly adorable, you know what i'm talking about. anything on the DFA label, all that super optimistic electro-pop.
I have honestly failed to keep up with any cinematic novelty since 2004, so this list is old: la nouvelle vague (especially rififi, 400 blows, you know, truffaut, goddard, bunuel, et als). joe vs. the volcano. pretty in pink. fight club. requiem. ghost world. citizen kane. hudsucker proxy... any and all teensploitation movies about the president's daughter and how she wants more 'freedom' then the president deceives her by sending devastatingly handsome undercover secret service agent to protect her who, then, ends up inevitably falling in love with her, thus teaching her the truth about trust or some shit. yup. and ones with fantastic candy coated dance scenes.
24, six feet under, arrested development, family guy, huff, scrubs, sopranos, queer as folk, after school specials, merit-based elimination driven reality television.
yes, pleeeeze!! gary benchley, rock star, all families are psychotic, the corrections, perks of being a wallflower, augusten burroughs, david sedaris... (anything that has to do with family insanity, hideously tumultuous growing pains, or adolescent homosexuality with or without hard drug abuse).
juliana hatfield, anyone with the initials JH, elvis costello, jonathan franzen, robert bringhurst, josef muller-brockmann, emil ruder, rick poynor, m/m paris, zak smith, container, organic, pandarosa... a bunch of you architecture folks are growing on me, yeah, you are. hrm. joseph beuys...of course my mom, cuz she's the best, and my lil brother, nick, cuz he's the most hilarious geniusYour results:
You are Iron Man
Iron Man
80%
Spider-Man
80%
Hulk
80%
Catwoman
65%
Green Lantern
60%
The Flash
60%
Supergirl
55%
Wonder Woman
55%
Robin
35%
Batman
35%
Superman
10%
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