Music, books, films, concerts, friends, amusement parks, road trips, ridiculous message boards, conversations, food (especially sweets), Spring weather, college basketball, NFL football, traveling, and oh yes, LOST.
John Lennon. Eddie Vedder. Bob Knight. Malcolm X. Barack Obama. My paternal grandparents. Stephen King. J.K. Rowling. Damon Lindelof.
Pearl Jam AOL Sessions Gone
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Classic Rock: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, John Lennon, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, Elton John, The Eagles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Billy Joel, Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, Paul McCartney, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Buffalo Springfield, Cream, Eric Clapton, Bob Seger, Boston, Fleetwood Mac, The Byrds, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chicago, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Allman Brothers Band, Doobie Brothers, Grateful Dead, The Guess Who, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, John Mellencamp, Kansas, Journey, Moody Blues, Queen, Santana, Steve Miller Band, Supertramp, YesModern Rock/Alternative: Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sublime, Incubus, The White Stripes, Dave Matthews Band, Live, Ben Harper, Radiohead, Coldplay, U2, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Counting Crows, Wolfmother, R.E.M, Phish, Oasis, Muse, Temple of the Dog, Life of Agony, Foo Fighters, Everclear, Candlebox, Mad SeasonHip Hop: Eminem, 2Pac, The Roots, Nas, Jay-Z, Jedi Mind Tricks, Immortal Technique, The Philosophy, Partners in Rhyme, Rakim, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Apathy, Army of the Pharaohs, Black Star, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Atmosphere, R.A. The Rugged Man, Common, Cypress Hill, Outkast, KRS-One, Scarface, Dead Prez, Gang Starr, N.W.A., Wu Tang Clan, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, The Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Jurassic 5, Kanye West, Mobb Deep, The Notorious B.I.G.Hard Rock/Metal: Rage Against The Machine, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Ozzy Osbourne, System of a Down, A Perfect Circle, Korn, Deftones, Metallica, Guns 'N Roses, Tenacious D, Linkin Park, Jane's Addiction, Def Leppard, Audioslave, SoulflySinger/Songwriter: Sarah McLachlan, Damien Rice, Joni Mitchell, Elliott Smith, Tori Amos, Jewel, Ani DiFranco, Howie Day, Jason Mraz, David Gray, Norah Jones, Aimee Mann, Jack Johnson, Colbie Caillat, Tracy Chapman, Iron & WineIndie: Guster, Ben Folds (Five), My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams, Ambulance Ltd., The Shins, Snow Patrol, Death Cab for Cutie, Dispatch, Arcade Fire, The Bens, The Postal Service, The Thrills, Cold War KidsPunk/Ska/New Wave: Green Day, The Clash, Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion, Sex Pistols, Jimmy Eat World, Bad Religion, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, The Ramones, Minor Threat, Social Distortion, Reel Big FishSoul/R&B: Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Four Tops, Al Green, The Drifters, Jackson 5, James Brown, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Righteous Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone, The Temptations, Alicia Keys, Prince, Michael JacksonMisc.: Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Dixie Chicks, Jars of Clay, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Madonna, Pink, Christina Aguilera, etc.
The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Casablanca, Forrest Gump, Good Will Hunting, Magnolia, Schindler's List, It's a Wonderful Life, Braveheart, Gladiator, The Breakfast Club, Old School, Traffic, Love Actually, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Matrix Trilogy, The Star Wars Saga, The Thin Red Line, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Into the Wild, American History X, Heat, Anchorman, 12 Monkeys, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Children of Men, Scent of a Woman, Requiem for a Dream, The Green Mile, The Usual Suspects, The Deer Hunter, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Goonies, The Sixth Sense, Seven, Cool Hand Luke, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Borat, Boondock Saints, the Back to the Future Trilogy, The Indiana Jones Adventures, Being John Malkovich, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vols. 1&2, Reservoir Dogs, Grindhouse, Crash, Fight Club, The Graduate, Garden State, Sin City, Clerks, Clerks 2, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Hoosiers, Field of Dreams, Rain Man, Thirteen, Super Troopers, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Billy Madison, Mr. Deeds, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Elizabethtown, 187, American Beauty, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Halloween, A Hard Day's Night, A River Runs Through It, Rounders, Big Fish, A Beautiful Mind, The Last Samurai, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Walk the Line, Ray, Legends of the Fall, When Harry Met Sally, Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Wedding Crashers, Knocked Up, Superbad, 8 Mile, Hotel Rwanda, Saving Silverman, Scarface, V for Vendetta, Wayne's World, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Constant Gardener, A Time to Kill, Tommy Boy, Baseketball, A Few Good Men, Orange County, Rudy, Signs, Saving Private Ryan, Ladder 49, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Frailty, The Devil's Advocate, A Bronx Tale, King Kong, Juno, American Gangster, Elf, Home Alone, Scrooged, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Million Dollar Baby, Goodfellas, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Great Escape, Batman, Batman Begins, Spiderman, Spiderman 2, The Wizard of Oz, Donnie Darko, Lost Highway, Die Hard, Predator, Platoon, The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, Trainspotting, Groundhog Day, Patton, Glory, Roots, The Lion King, Mystic River, Once, Saw, Primal Fear, The Basketball Diaries, and many, many more, if you can believe it...
LOST, Seinfeld, Chappelle's Show, 24, The Sopranos, Prison Break, South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Office, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Sports Center
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr; The Dark Towers Series - Stephen King; The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling; Sonnets to Orpheus - Rainer Maria Rilke; The Feast of Love - Charles Baxter; Lennon - Ray Coleman; Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger; Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury; 1984 - George Orwell; High Fidelity - Nick Hornby; The Lover - Marguerite Duras; Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll; Night - Elie Wiesel; The Duino Elegies - Rainer Maria Rilke; The Cigar Roller - Pablo Medina; Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein; Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, The Dead Zone, Salem's Lot, Pet Sematary, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Talisman (w/ Peter Straub), The Bachman Books (Rage, The Running Man, Roadwork and The Long Walk) The Dark Half, Different Seasons (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body, The Breathing Method) Four Past Midnight (The Langoliers, Secret Window, Secret Garden, The Library Policeman, The Sun Dog), Insomnia, Desperation, The Regulators, The Green Mile, Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, On Writing, Dreamcatcher - all Stephen King; Player Piano, Welcome to the Monkey House, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, Slaughter-house Five, Breakfast of Champions, Deadeye Dick, Hocus Pocus - all Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot; Lord of the Flies - William Golding; Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck; The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein; Anything Shakespeare; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens for the initiated); The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe; Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe; The Autobiography of Malcolm X; The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass; Anything Emerson; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain; Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman; Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller; Poetry by Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, Pablo Neruda, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, William Wordsworth, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas, Robert Browning, John Donne, Tony Hoagland, Alexander Pope, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens, Carl Sandburg, Anne Sexton, etc.
My parents (both cancer-asskickers); John Lennon; Damon Lindelof; Stephen King; anyone who has ever survived and recovered from (or is recovering from) an illness, disorder, disease, etc.