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I like people that are smarter than they think and more beautiful than they look. I like people that cry and laugh easily and get a wild look in their eyes when they talk about certain things. I don't much trust people who don't much believe in anything, people for whom music isn't a large part of their lives, or people that agree with everything I say. I like people that like long walks, long drives, and long conversations. I also like snicker-inducing mischief, tickle attacks, cultural references, and board games. I'm bored by people that are one-dimensional. A little schizophrenia can be a good thing.
A Ha, Aimee Mann, Apoptygma Berzerk, Bad Religion, Beethoven, Belle and Sebastian, Billie Holliday, Birthday Party, Bjork, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Blue October, Bruce Springsteen, Chameleons, Clan of Xymox, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, Concrete Blonde, Covenant, Cowboy Junkies, Cruxshadows, The Cure, Dead Can Dance, Delirium, Depeche Mode, DeVision, Dido, Enigma, Enya, Fleetwood Mac, Flogging Molly, Garbage, Gypsy Kings, Hooverphonic, Information Society, INXS, Iron Maiden, James, Janes Addiction, Jeff Buckley, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jesus Jones, Joe Satriani, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Kate Bush, Keane, L'ame Immotelle, Loreena McKennitt, Lycia, Love Spirals Downward, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Megadeth, Mephisto Walz, Michael Hutchence, Midnight Oil, Milla Jovovich, Ministry, The Mission, Moby, Morrissey, Mozart, New Order, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Oingo Boingo, Paula Cole, Pearl Jam, Peter Gabriel, Peter Murphy, Pink Floyd, Poe, The Pogues, Radiohead, REM, Roy Orbison, Rush, Sam Cooke, Sarah Brightman, Sarah McClachlan, Shiny Toy Guns, The Shroud, Sigur Ros, Sinead O Connor, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Skinny Puppy, Sisters of Mercy, Slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, Stabbing Westward, Suicidal Tendencies, The Sundays, Suzanne Vega, Switchblade Symphony, Talking Heads, Tangerine Dream, The The, This Mortal Coil, Tom Petty, Tori Amos, U2, Vivaldi, VNV Nation, The Who, Willie Nelson, Wolfsheim, Yo Yo Ma, Young Gods
Amelie, American Beauty, American History X, Being There, Better Off Dead, Big Fish, The Big Lebowski, Big Trouble in Little China, Braveheart, City of Lost Children, Dark Crystal, Dogs in Space, Donnie Darko, Electric Dreams, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fifth Element, Fight Club, Fisher King, The Fountain, Garden State, Ghostbusters, Groundhogs Day, Harvey, High fidelity, Hudson Hawk, Interview with the Vampre, Iron Giant, It's A Wonderful Life, Labyrinth, Legend, Lord of the Rings, Lost Boys, Moulin Rouge, Matrix, Mothman Prophecies, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Professional, Raising Arizona, Secret of Nimh, SLC Punk, Tank Girl, Time Bandits, Trainspotting, Vanilla Sky, Velvet Goldmine, What Dreams May Come, When Harry Met Sally, The World According to Garp, 12 Monkeys
TELEVISIONThe most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink --
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!
'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and-
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,
There's Mr. Rate and Mr. Mole-
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks-
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They'll now begin to feel the need
Of having something to read.
And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.
Roald Dahl
1984, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Catcher in the Rye, Enders Game, Frankenstein, The Giving Tree, Hamlet, Harry Potter, I am Legend, Illusions, Johnathan Livingstion Seagull, Maia, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Siddhartha, Strange Pilgrims, The Stranger, Stranger in a Strange Land, Winter's Tale
Some favorite authors:
Richard Bach, Albert Camus, Truman Capote, Orson Scott Card, E.E. Cummings, Maureen Dowd, William Faulkner, Neil Gaiman, Herman Hesse, Stephen King, George Lakoff, C.S. Lewis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Richard Matheson, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Frederick Pohl, J.K. Rowling, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, John Steinbeck, Neal Stephenson, Kurt Vonnegut, Edith Wharton, William Carlos Williams
Jesus Christ, Albert Einstein, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Terry Anderson, Michael Hutchence, Albert Camus, Brad Pitt (i know, i know), Van Gogh, George Gordon Byron, Stephen King
I would love, honor, obey.... stalk: Tori Amos, Joan of Arc, Milla Jovovich, Natalie Portman, Mary Shelley