Listening to music while I write.
The inventor of work. And boy, would I like to wring his neck!
Imani Coppola, The Magnetic Fields, Au Revoir Simone, The Blow, Os Mutantes, The Format, Caetano Veloso, Islands, Nina Simone, Dark Side of the Cop, The Killers, Rilo Kiley, Regina Spektor, T Rex, Bob Dylan, Daniel Johnston, Exploding Hearts, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Unicorns, Eels, Final Fantasy, Joy Division, Postal Service, Aimee Mann, The White Stripes, Alan Price, Stars, Architecture in Helsinki, The Virgins, Arcade Fire, In-Flight Movie, Mirah, The Pipettes, Of Montreal, Peter Bjorn and John, Yo La Tengo, Breakestra, Air, Joseph Weisenthal, Andrew Bird, Ennio Morricone, Delibes, Velvet Underground, The Kinks, Serge Gainsbourg, Spoon, Luna, The Moldy Peaches, Fionn Regan, Modest Mouse, Arctic Monkeys, Beirut, Voxtrot, Dead Prez, The New Pornographers, Feist, The New Young Pony Club, Queen, The Who, Ravens & Chimes, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Raul Seixas, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, The Libertines, Stereo Total, The Sounds, Caravelli, Ike & Tina Turner, MGMT, Little Jackie.
If...., O Lucky Man!, City of God, Protagonist, 12 Monkeys, North by Northwest, Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Into the Wild, On the Waterfront, 2001, The Adventures of Mark Twain, Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, East of Eden, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Amadeus, The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth, Fargo, In Cold Blood, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Casablanca, Cat People, Chinatown, Do the Right Thing, The Godfather, Horsefeathers, The Apartment, Grave of the Fireflies, Groundhog Day, Capote, Inherit the Wind, Natural Born Killers, Zero de Conduit, Bridge on the River Kwai, Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Player, Juno, Out of the Past, Paths of Glory, To Catch a Thief, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The 400 Blows, The Bank Dick, A Shot in the Dark, No Country For Old Men, In Bruges, The Lives of Others, Titanic, Wayne's World, To Live.
Big Love, Supernatural, Parental Control, Law and Order: Criminal Intent.
Brothers Karamazov, Sugar Blues, Don Quixote, No Man Knows My History, Master and Margarita, Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Faber Book of Utopias, Sherlock Holmes, Confederacy of Dunces, Kavalier and Clay, 1984, Anarchy State and Utopia, Son of the Revolution, Decline and Fall, American Splendor
Roger Ebert, for knowing what he wanted to do, doing it immediately, and doing it for his entire life. Luis Bunuel, for working in obscurity for most of his life, and finally reaching his full potential in his 60's.