"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it." -Basil Hallward in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde
A space heater that actually works.
The Arcade Fire, The Beta Band, The Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, Cat Power, Devendra Banhart, Explosions in The Sky, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Jethro Tull, Jim O'Rourke, John Lee Hooker, Leonard Cohen, Mogwai, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel. Johnny Cash, Beck, Mirah, The Microphones, Duke Ellington, John Lee Hooker, Jack Johnson, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Brahms, Chopin, Will Oldham, White Stripes, Papa M, Smog, Wilco, Lou Reed. Lots of others. oh, and fucking Foreigner, baby!
I don't watch it. But if I did, I'd be totally obsessed with Aqua Teen, Sealab, - actually, all of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. If I watched it. Every night.
Anything by C.G. Jung, anything by Joseph Campbell, "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace is probably my favorite fiction book EVER, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius", "You Shall Know Our Velocity" by Dave Eggers, Zen and The Art of Archery, Art and Fear, Mastery. classics like Lolita, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstien, The Picture of Dorian Gray. "Still Life With Woodpecker" by Tom Robbins was incredible, but "Jitterbug Perfume" was even better. Couldn't put down Homer's "Odyssey". Starting to pick up "The Adventures of Kavelier & Clay", but really looking forward to "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon