I have an obsession with Scrabble and Literati. Words are amazing to me. I read at least three books at a time and have been averaging 150 books a year for the last 3 years. Grammar, puncuation and proper English are very imporant to me. If someone says, "AnywayS", I cringe. You can't pruralize an interjection. Don't sound like an idiot. Language is one of those important things that separates us from the rest of the animals. I fancy myself a photographer. Watching fish is one of the greatest things in the world. I cuss like a sailor, I am probably worse than a sailor, I have offended my father with my mouth. Socks are brilliant. Traveling is wonderful, I want to drive all over this country, all over the world. I can think of nothing better than being in a car for extended periods of time, as long as I have my music, coffee and cigarettes.
Anyone. Well, that's a lie. I know 98% of the people on my list personally so if I don't know you, I probably don't want to.
!!!, APC, A Silver Mt. Zion, The Altarboys, Anticon, Atmosphere, Authority Zero, Bartok, Belly, Billy Holiday, Billy Talent, Bjork, Brother Ali, Cake, Carl Orff, Cinnamon Bears and Bicycle Trails, Coheed & Cambria, Converge, The Coup, Damage Manual, Damien Rice, Death Cab, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Ditty Bops, Dosh, The Dwarves, eDIT, Eisley, El Pus, Etta James, Eyedea & Abilities, Feist, Four Tet, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Goldfinger, Gossip, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Henry Rollins, I Am X, Josie & the Pussycats, Keren Ann, Laura Viers, Lennon, The Like, Massive Attack, Mastodon, Morgan Grace, Mos Def, Mr. Bungle, Muse, Neko Case, New Pornographers, Non-Prophets, otem rellik, P.O.S., Paul Simon, Plastikman, Radiohead, Ranier Maria, Ray Charles, Regina Spektor, Rilo Kiley, Rosemary Clooney, Sage Francis, Sigur Rose, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Sole, Sparklehorse, Spoon, Swan Island, Thee More Shallows, Tilt, TV On The Radio, Visqueen, Why?, Xiu Xiu, Yungchen Lamo
Stand by Me, Finding Nemo, Donnie Darko, Jacob’s Ladder, 28 Days Later, The Station Agent, Pieces of April, A Very Long Engagement, Forrest Gump, Fight Club, Monster's INC, What Dreams May Come, The Crow, The Pianist, Dummy, Run Lola Run, The Fifth Element, Amelie, But I'm a Cheerleader, Finding Nemo, A Very Long Engagement, Clueless, Empire Records, The Life of Brian.
The Daily Show, Scrubs, Battlestar Galactica and the Colbert Report.
"The Most Beautiful Woman in Town" and "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" Charles Bukowski, "Brave New World" and "Ape and Essence" Aldous Huxley, "A People's History to the United States" and "The Darker Nation" Howard Zinn, "The Green Hills of Earth" and "Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert A. Heinlein, "War Talk" and "The God of Small Things" Arundhati Roy, "Manufacturing Consent" and "Hegemony or Survival" Noam Chomsky, "Cat's Cradle", "Galapogos" and "Hocus Pocus" Kurt Vonnegut, "Martian Chronicles" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes" Ray Bradbury, "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake" Margaret Atwood, "Koolaids" and "I, the Divine" Rabih Alemedine, "The Namesake" Jhumpa Lahiri, "His Dark Materials Trilogy" Philip Pullman Comics are fantastic too. Preacher, Transmet, The Goon, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Fables, Blankets, Maus, Palestine, Sandman, Sin City, The Walking Dead Books of photography: Richard Avedon, James Nachtwey, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Alfred Steiglitz.
As lame as it may sound, my dad.