Getting through school, planning a fun wedding, playing the ukulele, cooking at home more often, reading magazines without pictures, and trying to beat my grandfather at cards just once in my life.
"Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want." -Anna Lappe
"Religion and science are opposed . . . but only in the same sense as that in which my thumb and forefinger are opposed - and between the two, one can grasp everything." -Sir William Bragg
While sober: Johnny Cash, Electric Six, Tom Petty, The Cure, Ella Fitzgerald, and The Damned. While drunk: Ol' Dirty Bastard and Ludacris.
Kung fu films and movies about the starship Enterprise.
Mythbusters, MacGyver, ST:TNG, and Bridezillas.
"1984"
"Crime and Punishment"
"The Maltese Falcon"
"A Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"Moby Dick"
"Republic"
"The Catcher in the Rye"
Collected Poems of Pablo Neruda
"The Bell Jar"
"House of the Spirits"
The Book of Job
"Welcome to the Monkey House"
"Cat's Cradle"
"Slaughterhouse-Five"
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
The Just-so Stories
"Don Quixote"
"The Canterbury Tales"
"Huckleberry Finn"
"The Adventures of Oliver Twist"
Sherlock Holmes Stories
"Ethics (Nicomachean)"
"Pride and Prejudice"
"Emma"
"Fahrenheit 451"
"The Awakening"
"Waiting for Godot"
"The Bhagavad Gita"
"Jane Eyre"
"A Clockwork Orange"
"Heart of Darkness"
"Red Badge of Courage"
"Catch-22"
"Animal Farm"
"Divine Comedy"
"The Origin of Species"
"The Brothers Karamazov"
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
"The Count of Monte Cristo"
"Invisible Man"
"Hipplolytus"
"The Hobbit"
"The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy
"The Sound and the Fury"
"Fast Food Nation"
"The Great Gatsby"
"Madame Bovary"
"One Hundred Years of Solitude"
"The Motorcycle Diaries"
"Ender's Game"
"Red Harvest"
"The Sun Also Rises"
"Old Man and the Sea"
"Steppenwolf"
"Leviathan"
"The Iliad"
"The Odyssey"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
American State Papers
"Critique of Pure Reason"
"Hamlet"
"The Trial"
"Being and Nothingness"
"Metamorphosis"
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
"Sons and Lovers"
"Of the Nature of Things"
"The Prince"
"The Magic Mountain"
"The Communist Manifesto"
"Billy Budd"
"Paradise Lost"
"Lolita"
"Thus Spake Zarathustra"
"The Rights of Man"
"Thoughts"
"Atlas Shrugged"
"Pygmalion"
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"
"Oedipus Rex"
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
King Arthur Stories
"The Adventures of Robin Hood"
"Gulliver's Travels"
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
"Native Son"
"The Aeneid"
"Candide"
"The Time Machine"
"Journey to the Center of the Earth"
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
"Death of a Salesman"
"To the Lighthouse"
"A People's History of the United States"
and more...
My grandfather. Good tippers. Garbagemen. Honest historians. People who still write thank-you notes for occasions besides their wedding. Any Democrat that votes left of center.