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Interesting nice people.
What I listen to a lot lately:
Beach House, Thunders, Duke Spirit, Boys Noize, Crystal Castles, Black Sabbath, Portishead, Colder, M.I.A., Santogold remix by Diplo, Fleet Foxes, My Brightest Diamond, Mirah, Billie Holiday, Gus Gus, Duke Spirit, Gillian Welch, Velvet Underground, OMD, Can, Belle & Sebastian, Broadcast, Jose Gonzalez, Etta James (especially live), Aphex Twin, Lee Hazelwood, YYY's, A Place to Bury Strangers, Hercules and Love Affair, Neko Case, Russian Circles, Sleep, Martina Topley-Bird, Shocking Blue, The Castaways song Liar Liar, U.N.K.L.E., Lester Young, Ratatat, The Clash, Justice, Vetiver, Devandra Banhart, Glass Candy, Bat for Lashes, Bjork, BATTLES, Dungen, Ulrich Schnauss, Sonic Youth, Budos Band, Amy Winehouse, Panda Bear, Sigur Ros, Laura Veirs, Cocteau Twins, Devendra Banhart, Aesop Rock, Sister Nancy, The Gossip, The Rapture, Brian Eno, Mogwai, Autolux, Joy Division, Pixies, Jesus & the Mary Chain, BRMC, Boards of Canada, Amusement Parks on Fire, X-ray Spexs, Congos, Raveonettes, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Edan, Cat Power, Blonde Redhead, Modern Lovers, BRMC, Bully 7"'s, Warp (most of it, not all though), King Khan & the BBQ Show, Panthers, Queens of the Stone Age, Detroit Cobras, Metric, The Stone Roses, !!!/Outhud, Le Tigre, The Breeders, Built to Spill, Boris, John Fahey, The Knife, My Bloody Valentine, Animal Collective, Margot & the Nuclear So & So's.
Check out A Squared Industries for any upcoming shows or the bands that we have booked.
I love movies but I have not been able to see as many as I would like to. Here are some that I currently have watched:
Chinatown, Control, Juno, Science of Sleep and
Matthew Barney: No Restraint
Some favorites:
Singing in the Rain, Sound of Music, Back to the Future Trilogy, Waiting for Guffman, Amores Perros, Morvern Callar, Magnolia, Rushmore, Billy Elliot, Boogie Nights, City of God, Everything is Illuminated, Reuben & Ed, 21 Grams, Buffalo '66, River's Edge, Constant Gardener, The Hours, Gimme Shelter, Little Miss Sunshine, No Direction Home, Fargo, Elizabeth, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Red, White, Bleu, Amelie, L.A. Confidential, and some other sweet stuff.
Summer reading:
Business Marketing (blaaaahhh)
Art History
A lot of short stories by Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, William Faulkner, Anzia Yezierska, Milton Murayama, Toni Cade Bambara, Eurdora Welty and Arthur Miller.
Haven't had much of an opportunity to read for fun but I have been slowly working on:
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
People are often unreasonable,
irrational, and self-centered;
forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse
you of selfish, ulterior motives;
be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
unfaithful friends and some genuine
enemies;
succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere
people may deceive you;
be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating
others could destroy overnight;
create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness,
some may be jealous;
be happy anyway.
The good you do today
will often be forgotten,
do good anyway.
Give the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
give you best anyway.
In the final analysis,
it's between you and God;
it was never between you and them
anyway.
-MOTHER TERESA