anyone who isn't a complete crazy neurotic alcoholic drug-addicted sociopath who can actually hold a decent conversation (preferably about books or music). sheesh.
65daysofstatic, Fiona Apple, Apples in Stereo, Arab Strap, the Arcade Fire, Archers of Loaf, Atreyu, the Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, Beat Happening, the Beatles, Beirut, Belle and Sebastian, Beulah, the Black Keys, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Blondie, the Bloodhound Gang, David Bowie, Broken Social Scene, Jeff Buckley, Built to Spill, the Byrds, Camera Obscura, Caribou, the Cyrkle, the Dandy Warhols, Kimya Dawson, Ani DiFranco, Dinosaur Jr., Nick Drake, dtr0n, Bob Dylan, the Eels, Elf Power, Essex Green, the Flaming Lips, Flogging Molly, Funeral Oration, Fujiya & Miyagi, the Gerbils, the Go! Team, Grandaddy, Guided by Voices, George Harrison, the Hollies, Buddy Holly, Hot Chip, Iron & Wine, Janis Joplin, Jawbreaker, Mason Jennings, the Jesus & Mary Chain, Jets to Brazil, Norah Jones, Ladybug Transistor, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, John Lennon, Sean Lennon, the Libertines, Love, Lullabye Arkestra, Major Organ and the Adding Machine, the Magnetic Fields, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Marshmallow Coast, Dean Martin, Ingrid Michaelson, the Minders, Moldy Peaches, My Bloody Valentine, the National, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nico, NOFX, None More Black, the Notwist, of Montreal, the Olivia Tremor Control, OutKast, Pavement, Peter Bjorn & John, the Pixies, Poe, the Pogues, Poison, Poison the Well, the Postal Service, Prince, Psapp, Queen, the Ramones, Lou Reed, (old) Rise Against, the Rolling Stones, Screeching Weasel, Sean Lennon, the Serfs, Seu Jorge, the Shins, Sigur Ros, Silver Jews, Simon and Garfunkel, Elliott Smith, the Smiths, Frank Sinatra, Spoon, the Streets, Strike Anywhere, Sublime, Superdrag, Three 6 Mafia, Tiger Army, T. Rex, Tupac, the Turtles, the Unicorns, the Vaselines, the Velvet Underground, Rufus Wainwright, Weezer, the White Stripes, Amy Winehouse, the Zombies, Most 60s music, 80s new wave, lo-fi indie, twee pop, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
what i'm listening to right now:
Royal Tenenbaums, Amelie, Easy Rider, Breathless, The Graduate.
Wonder Years (forever and always), Jeopardy, Seinfeld, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Roseanne, Nip/Tuck, anything about conjoined twins, and the Discovery Channel.
1984 by George Orwell, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass, The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee, Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, any Bukowski, [modern] art history, coffee table books, free books, books about books.I'm in the middle of about 4 books right now and have a stack of at least 50 more.
Elizabeth Erb, Lisa Louis, and anyone who clenches their fists and bites their tongue in lieu of throwing punches.
I also love Jesus because he was well, hung.