"At least we still have freedom of speech," I said.
And she said, "That isn't something somebody gives you. That's something you have to give yourself."
-Kurt Vonnegut
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Reading like it'll keep me alive. Eating like it's a hobby. Singing loudly, with or without my guitar. Dancing with my eyes closed. All things Anglo. Writing more and mostly less regularly than I wish. Organic biodynamic Anthroposophical and existential approaches to the various aspects of life. Correcting mispellings, grammatical errors, and misapplied punctuation, but only in other people's writing.
Anyone who will laugh at my jokes.
Postal Service, Jeff Buckley, Pixies, Alkaline Trio, Janis Joplin, Ani Difranco, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Smashing Pumpkins, The Beatles, The Killers, The Shins, Built to Spill, Jimi Hendrix, Weezer, Christine Lavin, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Arcade Fire, Snow Patrol, Badly Drawn Boy, Aretha Franklin, Death Cab for Cutie, Band of Horses,Modest Mouse, The Wrens.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Amelie, Back to the Future, Empire Records, Rushmore, ...But I'm a Cheerleader,Little Miss Sunshine, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien.
The entity of TV is awful and melts your brain. But individual shows should not suffer unduly bad reputations because of this. Thusly was TV on DVD invented, because shows like Six Feet Under, Father Ted, and the UK version of the Office deserve all the love you can give them.
Eats, Shoots and Leaves, JD Salinger, Nick Hornby, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Fanny Flagg), Existentialism and Humanism (Sartre), His Dark Materials trilogy (Philip Pullman), the Narnia Chronicles (CS Lewis), Welcome to the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut), Julian Barnes, Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris), Wally Lamb, Ranier Maria Rilke, Sylvia Plath, Roald Dahl, Harry Potter , Gregory Maguire, Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan,Ronia the Robber's Daughter,Youth in Revolt, Sarah Waters.
I don't believe in heroes. Set your own good example.