i will never, ever forget about dre.
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driving down the freeway on a sunday afternoon and wearing sunglasses that are way too big for my face, duck hunt, mortal kombat, FF7, hats, music, learning how to better at things like beat boxing, improvisational comedy and cursive, easter lilies, strangers, laughs, friends, film, words, stories, horror, westerns, horror westerns, theatre, traveling to places that aren't nearby, puns, old photographs, pain-free days, jello pudding and very, very colorful sweaters.
neutral milk hotel, sunny d. levine, johnny cash, air, the palace brothers, beirut, eric clapton, sufjan stevens, nwa, m83, jay-z, neil young, eels, donovan, the beatles, joni mitchell, pandacoon, gillian welch, willie nelson, bob seger, m. ward, biggie, iron and wine, mates of state, elliot smith, aesop rock, the decemberists, alexi murdoch, tom petty, paul simon, the mountain goats, jenny lewis and the watson twins, LCD soundsystem, jimi hendrix, dolly parton, death cab, the who, billie holiday, nine inch nails, the get up kids, nouvelle vague, belle and sebastian, psapp, the cure, ben lee, neko case, bob dylan, ODB, nina simone, nirvana, loretta lynn, fiona apple, the beach boys, hall n' oates, hank williams, miles davis, beck, joanna newsom, trilambs, HK, dinosaur jr., rilo kiley, cage, crooked fingers, andrew bird, postal service, beanie sigel, halbino, flaming lips, de la soul, bjork, crash test dummies, radiohead, doug martsch, cat power.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Nashville, The Squid and the Whale, The Big Picture, Eyes Wide Shut, Badlands, Contempt, The Shining, Roman Holiday, Clockwork Orange, The Wild Bunch, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, True Grit, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Rosemary's Baby, Touch of Evil, Days of Heaven, Sullivan's Travels, Spinal Tap, The Lord of the Rings, (pt.'s 1, 2 and 3. especially 1 and 3, because, hello,) All the President's Men, The Wedding Singer, The Silence of the Lambs,
City Slickers, The Exorcist, The Others, The Sting, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Journey of Natty Gann, Coming to America, My Cousin Vinny, The Changeling, Kill Bill Vol. 1, The Big Chill, An Affair to Remember, About Schmidt, In America, Dawn of the Dead, (original and remake,) Big Night, Training Day, Chinatown, Lawrence of Arabia, Coal Miner's Daughter, Rushmore, Shopgirl, Holy Grail, High Tension, 24 Hour Party People, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Zelig,
Annie Hall, In a Lonely Place, Shawshank Redemption, Swingers, Irreversible, American Beauty, Brazil, Straw Dogs, Sick, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Punch-Drunk Love, Dumb and Dumber, Theatre of Blood, Return to Me, Triplets of Belleville, The Rescuers Down Under, Cool Hand Luke, E.T., Dr. Strangelove, American Splendor, Wet Hot American Summer, Donnie Darko, Rear Window, Psycho, Big Fish, The Apartment, Kubrick's Lolita, Sideways, Man on Fire, Newsies, Happy Accidents, etc, etc, etc...
jon stewart, countdown with keith olbermann, curb, west wing, gangland, this american life, fishing with john, bill maher, engaged and underage, 30 rock, attack of the show, mad tv, six feet under, (r.i.p.,) all in the family, ali g, the british office, (ricky gervais is god. g-o-d. g.a.w.d. OMG GOD,) the american office, (jim + lauren = baby making,) the wonder years, roseanne, full house, arrested development, conan, deadwood, the simpsons, extras, intervention, my super sweet 16.
dostoyevsky, tolstoy, vonnegut, dickens, dafoe, hemingway, (a moveable feast)) jane austen, the bronte gang, timothy mcsweeny's at war for the foreseeable future and he's never been so scared, the hobbit, a clockwork orange, anything about gangs or the zoot suit riots, bukowski, henry miller, to kill a mockingbird, treasure island, roots, charlotte's web, a midsummer night's dream, the shining.
molly jo, old souls, scarlett, dani, my family, dr. b, gilda radner, meryl streep, jack nicholson, abe lincoln, john lennon, johnny cash, loretta lynn, terrence malick, robert altman, diane keaton, audrey hepburn, sam peckinpah, maya angelou, mark twain, oscar wilde, atticus finch, matt robinson, the homeless man i see at denny's who never asks me for anything and always smiles.