Not acting my age, spider-man, breathing, the sea, japan, fight club, world party, shopping on sunday, air guitar, conducting amateur socio-behavioural studies, photography, power pop, XTC, orange juice with bits, marijuana, geography, "punk", lucky strikes, coffee, cola with dave, twix straws, alien, the sith, intertextual comedy, simon pegg's face, sunburn, band rifts, love, signs of affection, singing very loudly, enjoy the study of other people's facial piercings, girls, boys, boobies, skull-fucking, no I didn't mean that's, crying in warm embraces.
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You're God damn right I'm gonna list every fuckin' band I can think of.
+44 (why?)
At The Drive-In
All-American Rejects
Angels And Airwaves
Atmosphere
The Ataris
Beastie Boys
blink 182
Buck 65
Bayside
Brand New
Bob Marley
Bloodhound Gang
Bob Dylan
Blackalicious
Björk
Billy Talent
Belle And Sebastian
Biz Markie
Beck
The Bouncing Souls
Boxcar Racer
Brandston
Brtiney Spears
Calexico
The Chemical Brothers
Choking Victim
The Cure
Cypress Hill
De La Soul
Dashboard Confessional
Dead Prez
(Damian Rice)
Death Cab For Cutie
(a bit of) Deftones
Dilated Peoples
The Distillers
Dust Brothers
Dr. Dre
DJ Shadow
DJ Hurricane
Down To Earth Approach
Eminem (just the first album really)
Elliot Smith
Erasure
Far
Finch
Fenix TX
Fall Out Boy (fuck off)
Fugazi
FFAF
Further Seems Forever
Glassjaw
The Get Up Kids
Go Big Casion
Heavens
Head Automatica
Hot Water Music
Hiding With Girls
Iron & Wine
Interpol
Johnny Cash
Jimmy Eat World
Joni Mitchell
Justin Timberlake (woops)
Jurassic 5
The Killers
Kate Bush
Kraftwerk
Kunt And The Gang
Less Than Jake
Leftöver Crack
Lit
LSO
Matchbook Romance
Motion City Soundtrack
Maxeen
Mae
Midtown
Millencolin
Misfits
Mos Def
Modest Mouse
NFG (until Catalyst)
New End Original
NOFX
No Doubt
One Man Army
Operation Ivy
Outkast
Orbital
Peaches
The Postal Service
Placebo
Panic! At The Disco
Prince Paul
Pulp
Prodigy
Public Enemy
Rancid
Radiohead
Redman
Reel Big Fish
Rufio
Rival Schools
The Rocket Summer
Sex Pistols
Saves The Day
The Stranglers
The Starting Line
The Smiths
Sigur Ros
Sparta
Spitlafield
Sublime
Something Corporate
Sunny Day Real Estate
System Of A Down
Taking Back Sunday
Talib Kweli
Thursday
Tom Petty
Transplants (definitely just the self-titled effort)
t.A.T.u
Thom Yorke
A Tribe Called Quest
UNKLE
The Velvet Underground
Weezer
The Wedding Present
Wir Sind Helden
Wu-Tang Clan
Xzibit (early shit)
XTC.
Shaun of the Dead, Fight Club, Starship Troopers, The Empire Strikes Back, Chasing Amy, Battle Royale, Dick Tracey.
...not...
"And it is the same, he perceived, in all seemingly heroic or tragic situations. On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or sreaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth."
Mother dear, Simon Pegg, Jesse Lacey and perhaps Leonardo da Vinci, but if you put a gun to my head and forced me to tell you the truth then I'd say this guy right here:
There are you happy now? You hound and badger me until I crack and give in. Well fuck you! I know he's a dick now but he used to be the centre of my universe...