Fashion, Music, Escapism, Weird spotted cats, Dancing and sitting in the rain, Food, Sex, Kissing, Dancing, Awkward moments, Awkward silences, French, Beaches, Cigarettes, Guidanes Blondes, Sailing, Gardens, Vintage, Thrift, Shabby Chic furniture, Reading good books, Writing prose, Design, Restoration, Re-invention, Dressing up, Falling in love, Smoking, Surrealism, Coffee, Poetry, Art, Film-making, Traveling, Discovering new things, Clay, Pottery, British Accents, Skinny British boys, Gardening, Going to gigs, Sewing, Architecture, Foreign countries, Foreign food.
"and what i don't say is this: that this is also the same sun that makes me think of regal tangerines, dimwitted butterflies and lazy carp. And the ecstatic drops of pomegranate blood seeping from the skin fissures of fruits rotting on the tree branches next door - drops that hang like rubies from their old brown leather source, alluding to the intense ovarian fertility inside.
The carapace of coolness is too much for Claire, also. She breaks the silence by saying that it's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments "either our lives become stories, or there's just no way to get through them."
I agree. Dag agrees. We know that this is why the three of us left out lives behind us and came to the desert - to tell stories and to make our own lives worthwhile tales in the process."
-taken from Douglas Coupland's Generation X
Stars, Memphis, Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, The National, 8MM, Sean Lennon, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Incubus, The Hives, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Ben Lee, Fiona Apple, Ani DiFranco, 311, Portishead, Nine Inch Nails, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Aimee Mann, No Doubt, Lisa Loeb, Feist, Bloc Party, Nouvelle Vague, Broken Social Scene, The Smashing Pumpkins, David Gray, A Perfect Circle, The Breeders, Cibo Matto, Lamb, Hole, The Polyphonic Spree, David Bowie, The Lemonheads, Coldplay, Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews, The Geraldine Fibbers, Ben Kweller, Metric, Air, The Cure, Modest Mouse, Jeff Buckley, Dambuilders, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, The Pixies, Guillemots, Pavement, Foo fighters, The Rapture, Wilco, Death from Above 1979, Pupil, Daydream Cycle, Radioactive Sago Project, The Killers, Zero 7, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, The Smiths, The Bitter Pill, Makopa, Sound, Pedicab, Postal Service, Badly Drawn Boy, Clor.
Stardust, Pan's Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine, Conversations With Other Women, Marie Antoinette, Fight Club, Gone in 60 Seconds, Ocean's Eleven and Twelve and Thirteen, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, This is Spinal Tap, Girl Interrupted, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Almost Famous; Directors Cut, The Virgin Suicides, Before Sunrise, Befoe Sunset, Donnie Darko, Hamlet (with Ethan Hawke and Julia Stiles), Lost In Translation, Ten Things I Hate About You, Love Actually, Big Fish, Kill Bill Vol. 1&2, Romeo + Juliet, Dead Poet's Society, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Under the Tuscan Sun, Reality Bites, Aeon Flux, Stage Beauty, How to Make an American Quilt, Midsummer Night's Dream, Sin City, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Garden State, Reefer Madness, A Very Long Engagement, Amelie, Roger Dodger, High Fidelity, Leon the Professional, Gia, Trainspotting, The Beach, Zatoichi, Adaptation, School of Rock, Igby Goes Down,
Eureka, Battlestar Galactica, Pushing Daisies, Project Runway, Top Chef, Top Design, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Veronica Mars, Everything on the Discovery Channel and Discovery Travel and Living, Mythbusters, America's Next Top Model, Carnivale, Sex and the City, Dead Like Me, Entourage, Wonderfalls, Scrubs, Takeshi's Castle
After Dark by Haruki Murakami, A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, Hotel Pastis by Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle, Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland, Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn, Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami, Rocket City by Catherine Alpert, Bread Alone, Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik, Shopgirl by Steve Martin, Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Umbrella Man, & George's Marvelous medicine by Roald Dahl, Harry Potter, Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner, Generation X by Douglas Coupland, The Island by Douglas Coupland, Number the Stars, The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snyder, Abarat by Clive Barker, Coraline and Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami, The Forgetting Room by Nick Bantock, The Gryffin and Sabine Trilogy by Nick Bantock, The Morning Star Trilogy by Nick Bantock, The Museum at Purgatory by Nick Bantock
Maybe they aren't my heroes, but i admire them: Melissa Auf Der Maur, Roald Dahl, Johnny Depp, Ben Gibbard, Billie Holiday, Julie Delpy, Marc Jacobs, Haruki Murakami, Nick Bantock, Douglas Coupland, Amy Millan, Torquil Campbell, and Leslie Feist.