Music, photography, art, Europe, concerts, pencils, paper, sketchbooks, Daniel Day-Lewis, coffee, songs about cigarettes, songs about going home, boots, beards, mustaches, not goatees, the south, hummus, film cameras, manners, literature, fiction in general, rejected religion, biking in Chicago, cooking, experimenting, creating, thinking, self-philosphy-writing, city biking
It is an incontrovertible truth to say that eccentricity is the genius's most indispensable accessory. Eccentricities allow genius to be writ LARGE--as it should be--and act as dazzling marquees that say, "Behold! Before you is an odd behavior, style of dress, or facial hair configuration, the result of a brain so powerful that it bends societal norms to its whims!" Will you be known as the genius who eats raw potatoes with a decorative spoon, or be ignored completely? Proclaim your genius! --Ray Fenwick
David Bowie, Ryan Adams, The Clash, Arcade Fire, Wilco, Andrew Bird, The Beatles, Talking Heads, Buddy Nuisance, Rufus Wainwright, The Frames, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Paper Arrows, Devendra Banhart, Damien Rice, M. Ward, David Bazan, Simple Kid, The Avett Brothers, Spoon, Langhorne Slim, Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, Lyle Lovett, Elvis Perkins, T. Rex, Eureka Gold, Feist, Bright Eyes, Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band, Smog, Tim Fite, Dr. Dog, Iron & Wine
Young Frankenstein, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Once, Blazing Saddles, It's a Wonderful Life, A Room With A View, There Will Be Blood, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Eagle vs. Shark, Billy Elliot, Amelie, The Birdcage, Die Falscher, Casablanca, Strictly Ballroom
The Office, Flight of the Conchords, Laverne and Shirley, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Sketchbooks, Brave New World, My Name is Asher Lev
Gene Wilder, Audrey Hepburn, Eric Idle, Joe Goodkin, Ray Fenwick, Oscar Schell, Jeff Tweedy, Ryan Adams, Doris Day, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sam Beam