Music, Love, Dance, Art, Reading, Talking, Teaching, Learning, Sleeping.
The ultimate in stereotypes
Oh boy...a lot...BEIRUT!!! Spoon, Modest Mouse, The Arcade Fire, Mogwai, Built to Spill, Archers of Loaf, Alaska, The Be Good Tanyas, Iron and Wine, Hayden, Pinback, Rand and Holland, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kocani Orkestar, The Talking Heads, Polly Ammo, Soundgarden, S.T.P., Death Cab For Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses, The Bulgarian Womens Choir, A Band of Bees, Johnny Cash, Slavic Soul Party, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, That guy who used to play accordian in Union Square subway terminal, The FolkSong Revival, The Bones of Davey Jones, The Fire Flies, Sufjan Stevens, Hum, Led Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Tori Amos, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion, Fugazi, At the Drive In, The Bees, Tool, A Perfect Circle, The Mars Volta, Dirty Three, Yo La Tengo, The Beatles, Veruca Salt, The Breeders, Belly, Mates of State, Janes Addiction, REM, The Cure, James Brown, French Folk songs, The Pharcyde, Fiona Apple, Beck, Beastie Boys, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Regina Spektor, The Meters, Jon Samson, Bess Rogers, Wolf Parade, DeVotchka, Otis Redding, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Portishead, Tricky, The Decemberists, Cat Power, Nick Drake, DJ Shadow, The Flaming Lips, The Folk Implosion, Pavement, Radiohead, Wilco, Sleater-Kinney, The Frames, Air, T-Rex, Imogen Heap...the list goes on and on and on and on and on.....
Garden State, Any Indiana Jones, Underground, Battle Royale, Requiem for a Dream, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, The Darjeeling Limited, Legend, The Rules of Attraction, Supersize Me, Songs for Cassavettes, Trilogy of Terror, I am Trying to Break Your Heart (Wilco Documentary), Clerks, RUSHMORE, Ghostbusters 1 and 2, The Witches of Eastwick, Pretty in Pink (the Otis Redding scene...come on!!!), Say Anything, Swingers, No Country For Old Men, Donnie Darko, Sane Man (Bill Hicks), Coming to America, Trainspotting, Do the Right Thing, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Enter the Dragon, Casablanca, Closer, Little Miss Sunshine, Underground, The Iron Giant, V for Vendetta, The House at the End of the World, The Life Aquatic, The Fisher King, True Romance, Virgin Suicides, Bound, Reality Bites, Suicide Kings, InnerSpace, Igby Goes Down, ANY horror movie...any zombie movie...this list could go for days...
Family Guy, Sealab, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies, The Simpsons, Arrested Development, 6 Feet Under, The Office, The Sopranos and many programs that are no longer on the air like The State, Sifil and Olly, The Brak Show and Liquid Television...I also miss the Electric Company...does that still come on?
Eye Scream and Solipsist by Henry Rollins, Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk, The Rules of Attraction and American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Yeats Reader by William Butler Yeats, Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, The Beach by Alex Garland, Party Monster by James St. James, Dry and Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides, The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda, South of No North and Play the Piano Drunk like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit by Charles Bukowski and many others...
My mother and all the music makers. Yes...all of you.