music. friends. boys. the rain. winter. singing. drawing. big cities. concerts. eyeliners. doc martens boots. berkeley. boston. plaid. my plaid converse. piano. bass. guitar. old houses. city lights. snow. fields of green grass. photography. ceramics. the night sky. music.
Dolores O'Riordan, South and Chris from Augustana (I already met Dan, Jared and David :D), the guys from Snow Patrol, and Evan and Reid from War Stories.
Bands I have heard and liked:
italics = seen live
3 Doors Down
10 Years
30 Seconds to Mars
AFI
Against Me!
Aiden
Alanis Morissette
Alexisonfire
Alice in Chains
The Almost
American Hi-Fi
An Angle
Anberlin
… And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
Angels and Airwaves
Anna Nalick
A Perfect Circle
The Arcade Fire
Armor for Sleep
Army of Me
As Tall As Lions
Atreyu
At The Drive-In
Audioslave
Audrye Sessions
Augustana ♥ ♥
The Automatic Automatic
Badly Drawn Boy
Bad Religion
Band of Horses
Bayside
Bear vs. Shark
Beck
Bedlight for Blue Eyes
Better than Ezra
Between the Trees
Blaqk Audio
Biirdie
Blind Melon
Blink 182
Bloc Party
Blue October
Blur
Bowling for Soup
Boys Like Girls
Boys Night Out
Brady Sails
Brand New ♥ ♥
The Bravery
Breaking Pangaea
Breakpoint
Bright Eyes
Broken Winter
Bullet for My Valentine
Bush
Carbon Leaf
Cartel
A Change of Pace
Chevelle
Chin Up Chin Up
Chiodos ♥ ♥
The Church
Cinematic Sunrise
Circa Survive ♥
City Sleeps
The Clash
Coheed and Cambria
Cold Hot Crash
Coldplay
Cold War Kids
Copeland
The Cranberries ♥
Crime in Stereo
Crowded House
The Cure
Dance Gavin Dance
The Dandy Warhols
Dashboard Confessional
Dear and the Headlights
The Dear Hunter
Death Cab for Cutie
Death from Above 1979
The Decemberists
Deep Blue Something
Dennis is Dead
Depeche Mode
Dido
Dinosaur Jr.
Dishwalla
Dolores O'Riordan
Dream Academy
Dropkick Murphys
The Early November
Emery
Envy on the Coast
Evanescence
Eve 6
Everclear
Fair to Midland ♥ ♥
Fairweather
The Fall of Troy ♥
Fastball
Fear Before the March of Flames ♥
Fightstar
Filter
Finger Eleven
Foo Fighters
The Format
Fountains of Wayne
Foxy Shazam
Franz Ferdinand
The Fratellis
The Fray
Gin Blossoms
God or Julie
Goo Goo Dolls
Green Day
Guster
Halifax
Hard-Fi
Harvey Danger
Hazel and Vine
Head Automatica
The Hitchers
The Honorary Title
Hot Hot Heat
Hot Rod Circuit
Houston Calls
Howie Day
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business
Idlewild
Imogen Heap
Incubus
Interpol
Jane's Addiction
Jem
Jet
Jet Lag Gemini
Jimmy Eat World ♥
Kaddisfly
Kaiser Chiefs
Kasabian
Keane
The Killers
The Klaxons
The Kooks
La Circa
LCD Soundsystem
Lifehouse
The Limousines
Linkin Park
Lit
The Little Ones
Live
Lorene Drive
Louis XIV
Low vs. Diamond
Ludo
Madina Lake
Maldroid
Manchester Orchestra ♥
Mansions
Marcy Playground
Margot and the Nuclear So & So's ♥
Matchbox 20
The Matches
Mat Kearney
Matt Costa
Maximo Park
Mayday Parade
mewithoutYou
Minus the Bear
The Michetons
Modest Mouse
The Morning Benders
Moving Units
Muse
Mute Math
My American Heart
My Chemical Romance
My Former Self
My Morning Jacket
Nada Surf
National Product
The New Amsterdams
New Order
New Year’s Day
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana ♥
O.A.R.
The Offspring
OK Go
Onethousand Pictures (War Stories)
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark (OMD)
Our Lady Peace
Panda
Pearl Jam
The Photo Atlas
Pierce the Veil
Pinback
Pink Floyd
Pistolita
Placebo
Plain White T's
Poor Bailey
Portugal. The Man
The Postal Service
Puddle of Mudd
Push to Talk
Queens of the Stone Age
Quietdrive
R.E.M.
The Raconteurs
The Ramones
Rancid
The Receiving End of Sirens ♥ ♥
Red Horizon
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Rise Against
The Reindeer Section
Roark
Rock Kills Kid ♥
Russian Circles
Ruth Way
Saosin
Sarah McLachlan
Saves the Day
Say Anything
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Scissors for Lefty
Sea Wolf
Semisonic
Shawn Colvin
Sherwood
The Shins ♥
Shiny Toy Guns
Shout Out Louds
Sick City
Sick Puppies
Silversun Pickups
Simple Minds
The Smashing Pumpkins ♥
The Snake The Cross The Crown
Snow Patrol ♥ ♥
Soft Cell
Something Corporate
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Sound the Alarm
Sparta
The Spill Canvas
Stars of Track and Field
The Starting Line
Stone Temple Pilots
Strata ♥ ♥
Street to Nowhere ♥ ♥
The Strokes
The Subtle Way
Sugarcult
Survive the Fall
Switchfoot
System of a Down
Taking Back Sunday
Takota
Talking Heads
Tears for Fears
Test Your Reflex
Third Eye Blind
This Day Forward
This Providence
Thrice
Tiger Army
Tool
Tori Amos
Train
The Transit War
Under the Influence of Giants
The Used
Vega4 ♥
Vertical Horizon
The Verve
The Verve Pipe
The View
The Violent Femmes
Waking Ashland ♥
The Wallflowers
Weezer
When in Rome
The White Stripes
Wolfmother
The Wombats
The Working Title
YouInSeries
Youth Group
Zwan
Grab On To Me Tightly As If I Knew The Way by Bryan Charles
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The English Patient by uhh whoever it was
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
basically anything by Douglas Coupland
Vanity Fair by W. M. Thackeray
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
+ more but I can't remember.