Words and expressions I enjoy: feeble-minded, nincompoop, nincompoopery, knuckle sandwich, tallywhacker, muffintop, Jumpin' Jehosaphat, scoundrel, malfeasant, ne'er-do-well (i think that's my favorite), rum running, heist, red-scaring, hogwash, lunatic, lascivious, criminy, whipper-snapper, simpleton, ninny, tomfoolery...more to come
Good spellers, cheap thrillers, and anything inbetween. I'm not sure exactly what that means. Make of it what you will.
Anything suggested or given to me by John Morrow, Josh Kupecki, & J. Beaman, (thank you much boys) including, but not limited to the following: Magnetic fields, Animal Collective, Beat Happening, Cat Stevens, David Byrne, Talking Heads, Two Gallants, Of Montreal, Sam Cooke, The Shins, They Might Be Giants, Aaron Deer, Outkast, The Beatles, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Elliot Smith, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bright Eyes, Busta Rhymes, Charlie Parker, Cody Chesnutt, The Concretes, The Darkness, David Bowie, The Decemberists, Dolly Parton, The Flaming Lips, The Futureheads, Gang of Four, Jeff Buckley, The Go team, Hank Williams, TV on the radio, Iris DeMent, Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, Joanna Newsom, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Jonathan Richman, Leonard Cohen, Loretta Lynn, Lou reed, Love, Mason Jennings, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Mates of State, Mos Def, Otis Redding, Patsy Cline, The Pixies, The Postal Service, Pretty Girls Make Graves, R.E.M., The Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, The Smiths, Son Volt, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, The Who, Tom Waits, Ween, Weezer, Wilco, The White Stripes
Harold & Maude, True Stories, Rushmore, Raising Arizona, Mannequin, 9 to 5, Royal Tenenbaums, 28 Days later, Dirty Pretty Things, Like Water for Chocolate, Anything Muppets - except for Space, no me gusta, Y tu Mama Tambien, Sex & Lucia, Oh God!, Henry & June, Amlie, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, brazil, Snatch, Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day, Breakfast at Tiffanys, The Shining, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Midnight Express
It's been awhile, and that's okay, because I don't much like it, but I must admit there are things that I like. The Smurfs, Sex & the City, Six Feet Under, things I can get the entire season of on DVD, because who has time, to be at the TV at the same time every week, I like to get through it all at once, The Simpsons, Agua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2020
Let's try a combination of authors and books shall we? To Kill a Mockingbird, Anything & everything by J.D. Salinger, although there are not that many, Norman Mailer, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Joyce Carol Oates, David Sedaris, Dave Eggers, The Great Gatsby, A Confederacy of Dunces, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Tom Robbins, Flannery O'Connor, Basketball Diaries, 1984, and a slew of others
Rick Schroeder, Carlton, Gary Coleman, Wesley from Mr. Belvedere