music, literature, nicotine, writing, german oompah bands, movies, late nights at ihop, long grueling games of texas hold'em, conversations over coffee (beer works too) making fun of canadians, attempting to play guitar, attempting to perform live music, stupid internet scenester communities.
anyone who's willing to contribute to the conversation.
sunny day real estate, the autumns, the jealous sound, radiohead, coldplay, jeff buckley, death cab for cutie, ours, mae, the fire theft, mineral, kevin devine, elbow, aqualung, my hotel year, days away, zao, manchester orchestra, brand new, the rebel yell, the appleseed cast, the beatles, ryan adams, bright eyes, 238, u2, jimmy eat world, bob dylan, the gloria record, sigur ros, lovedrug, the rapture, the smiths, muse, snow patrol, damien rice, doves, the damnwells, the darkness, sleeping at last, delegate, cave in, hum, duncan sheik, whatever band that would make you think i'm cool, insert here___ ...
garden state, napolean dynamite, batman begins, office space, 28 days later, the truman show, tommy boy, dumb and dumber, happy gilmore, zoolander, swingers, snatch, lock stock and two smoking barrels, lord of the rings, the matrix, the sixth sense, star wars (the original, not this new cgi shit), boondock saints, signs, billy madison, made, almost famous, vanilla sky, schindler's list, the passion of christ, dirty work, waiting for guffman, best in show, a mighty wind, spinal tap, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind...
after having nothing to do for weeks but watch the tube, i've found that i absolutely hate ninety percent of television, especially sitcoms. what an insipid, mindless succession of bad acting and derivative writing riddled with a steady stream of recycled one liners. the only thing i hate more would have to be reality telivision: the industry's way of completely eliminating television as a viable media for creativity. i despise reality television and the microcelebrity culture it has created. however, a few shows that i can still stomach would be... scrubs, the daily show, the colbert report, anything on the history channel, south park, family guy, conan, tough crowd (bring it back!), the shield, home movies, robot chicken, smallville (yeah, i know, that's kind of emasculating to admit)...
hey nostradamus, shampoo planet, all families are psychotic, life after god, miss wyoming, generation x, girlfriend in a coma (ok, basically anything by douglas coupland), sex, drugs and cocoa puffs, killing yourself to live, velvet elvis, life of pi, psychotic reactions and carberator dung, call it sleep, the visitation, fight club, wheel of time (long live paper back fantasy), lord of the rings, eragon, out of the silent planet, perelandra, tale of two cities, written on the body...
jeremy enigk, the edge, jeff buckley, j.r.r. tolkien, c.s. lewis, lester bangs, douglas coupland...