words, books, deserts, music, skin, faces, murder, logic, sun, shipwrecks, crushed cars, water, pink, playing easy to get, forgetting my lines, ignoring the obvious, creating a scene, giving the wrong impression, and communicating inappropriately.
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I'd like to meet:
Original Artwork by Yoshina Galina, but Myspace won't let me post a link to her site: http://domovenok333.photosight.ru
But first you should go here and buy things:
Music:
The Wedding Present.
Pretty Much Everything. My first love is good indie guitar rock. But in reality, it's ALL good.
On the playlists so far this year:
Devotchka- A Mad and Faithful Telling
Gutter Twins- Saturnalia
Boyracer-Juke-Box Vol. 1
Teenage Fanclub- Man-made
The Airborne Toxic Event- Does this mean you're moving on?
Pelle Carlberg- In a Nutshell and Everything, Now!
2007 was very good year for music!
Band Of Horses- Cease to Begin
Stars- In our Bedroom After the War
Alberta Hunter- Vol. 4 1927-1943
BB King- Best of...
Sam Cooke- Best of...
Al Green- Greatest Hits
Papercuts- Can't Go Back
Great Lake Swimmers- Ongiara
Ned's Atomic Dustbin- Best Of...
Stars- In Our Bedroom After the War
Sea Wolf- Daytrotter sessions
Amy Winehouse- Back to Black
The Mary Onettes- The Mary Onettes
The Horrors- Strange House
Shiny Toy Guns- We Are Pilots
Silversun Pickups- Carnavas & Pikul
Honeycut- The Day I Turned to Glass
Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
TV on The Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
Ride- Nowhere
Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
Peter Bjorn and John- Writers Block & Falling Out
Bright Eyes- Four Winds EP & Cassadaga
Apples in Stereo- New Magnetic Wonder
Always good to listen to:
The Wedding Present, The Cure, The Smiths, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Billie Holiday, Belle & Sebastian, Joy Division, old Country, old Rockabilly, old Jazz, 60's jangle pop, everything 80's, twee pop, death rawk, bands that use instruments and have people that sing or sometimes don't, bands that use electronics to make music, oh, oh, oh, and musicians that play. Now THAT'S the kinda music I listen to, right there, bucko.
Et cetera.
Movies:
Apocalypse Now- Best Movie Ever
Batman Begins!!, Sid and Nancy, Pulp Fiction, Crash (the JG Ballard one), Reservoir Dogs, The Departed, True Romance, Pretty in Pink, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Boondock Saints, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Shining, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Quadrophenia, Groundhog Day, A Room with a View, Lost in Translation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Lost Boys, Grease I and II, Pretty Woman, Nightmare Before Christmas, Overboard, etc.
Any Clint Eastwood western.
Anything with Gary Oldman in it (YES, even the Scarlet Letter).
Anything with Gael Garcia Bernal in it.
Anything with Christian Bale in it.
And shamefully, any absolutely *retarded* Meg Ryan romance, usually with little or no plot line, will hold me riveted for hours. Please give me something NOT to think about.
We are a netflix family, so if you want to sign up as friends, feel free to add me:
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Television:
Six Feet Under
The Simpsons
The Office
Friends
Weeds
AbFab
Dog the Bounty Hunter
I'm not against TV per se, although if it was just me, I wouldn't even own a TV. Just not a priority.
Books:
I read incessantly. I read faster and more often than anybody I know. I could talk about books for hours.
I'm an exceedingly boring person.
Book Club related ramblings... If you are interested , please go to the book club's main page and check it out. We are currently reading:
Emma by Jane Austen
Notable Previous book club reads include:
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
What is the What by Dave Eggers
I love you, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance-Barack Obama
The Zero- Jess Walter
Mind Wide Open- Stephen Johnson
Cloud Atlas- David Mitchell
Eat the Document- Dana Spiotta
Erstwhile Reads:
Ham on Rye- Charles Bukowski
Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien
Angelica- Arthur Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone- J.K. Rowling
Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk
A Dirty Job- Christopher Moore
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan- Lisa See
This Book Will Save Your Life - A.M.Homes
Eat, Pray, Love- Elizabeth Gilbert
The Electric Michelangelo- Sarah Hall
Top of the Pops:
Oscar Wilde * Gabriel Garcia Marquez * Charles Bukowski* Jane Austen * T.S Eliot * Alice Thomas Ellis * Zadie Smith * P.D. James * Laura Ingalls Wilder * Agatha Christie * Haruki Murakami * Lisa Carver * Mark Twain * David Sedaris * Albert Camus * Willa Cather * Thomas Mann * Sandra Cisneros * Dave Eggers * Nuala O ' Faolain * Francine Prose * Raymond Carver* Fernando Pessoa* Irvine Welsh * Chuck Palahniuk *
Heroes:
This guy is rad.
Crazymeds.usLet's see... a little more specifically...
Christie for having the courage to go back on her meds and for walking the long uphill journey of higher education. (You try it with 2 kids and a house payment and tell me it ain't hard)
Kim for completing graduate school and starting her own private practice. I am so jealous. Well... mostly I'm proud, but yeah, I'm a teeny bit jealous too... =)
Jamie for the whole last three years.. between the job, the weight loss, Kyle, the house, everything.. she's been a trooper. I'd have long given up by now.
Lisa for taking that huge leap over the chasm of fear and starting on the path of discovery, knowledge and enlightenment. Keep going!
Oh, and Fergie.. for putting up with all of us.
