Moral dilemmas. Pondering the nature of good and evil. Intense soul-searching that pushes one to the boundaries of sanity. Beavis and Butt-head reruns.
All the people who love my writing (and the two assholes who don't). Why are you still here? www.samuelminier.com
Welcome to sonic schizophrenia: Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Apocalyptica, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tool, Mazzy Star, Tom Petty, Alan Parsons Project, Cinderella, Alice in Chains, AFI, Bon Jovi (pre-country), Lucinda Williams, Nick Drake, The Doors, Ryan Adams, Cowboy Junkies, Death Cab for Cutie, Greenday, Godsmack, Tom Waits, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd, My Chemical Romance, Phil Collins, Genesis, Joy Division, Bruce Springsteen, Chris Cornell, H.I.M., Toad the Wet Sprocket, Nine Inch Nails, old Metallica, 80s hair ballads, and anything appropriate to play around Halloween.
The Lookout, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, Hard Candy, Lord of the Rings, The Thing (1982), The Fly (1986), Aliens, The Lost Boys, Angel Heart, Stand By Me, Pump Up the Volume, S.F.W., Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, American Beauty, Almost Famous, Donnie Darko, Lost Highway, The Burbs, Bad Santa, A Fish Called Wanda, Halloween, The Ring, The Exorcist, Exorcist 3, Silence of the Lambs, Night of the Living Dead (1969), Texas Chainsaw (1974), Jaws, American Werewolf in London, May, The Descent, 8 Below (oh shut up, the leopard seal scared me . . .)
Damages, It's Always Sunny in Philedelphia, The Shield, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files, My Name is Earl, The Office, Scrubs, 30 Rock, Millennium, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Daybreak, Freaks and Geeks, and most other good shows unceremonially yanked off the air.
It, The Shining, The Stand (King); The Traveling Vampire Show (Laymon); Dogs of Babel (Parkhurst); House of Leaves (Danielewski); Mystery Walk, The Wolf's Hour (McCammon); Lightning, Phantoms, Midnight (Koontz); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey); I Am Legend (Matheson); Wicked (MacGuire); The Books of Blood (Barker); and anything by Ramsey Campbell, H.P. Lovecraft, Caitlin Kiernan, e.e. cummings, Chuck Palahniuk, Thomas Ligotti, Jeff Long
Anyone who goes to my webpage www.samuelminier.com