postal mail, music, literature, writing, adventures in the city, doing things that are potentially embarassing but ultimately greatly rewarding, stencils, web design, open mics, drinking, high fiving, cars from the seventies
Do you ever secretly think you're the coolest person in the room because you're not desperately running around waving your arms and screaming to everyone that you're the coolest person in the room... and are really, actually, genuinely glad that those people doing all that sad pathetic shit aren't paying any attention to you... but, at the same time, you're secretly wishing that someone else in the same predicament would come over and notice that you are, in fact, so cool that you don't need to announce it, that you're cool enough that people will know without being told?Where the fuck are those other people?Where is my RDA of quiet confidence, of conversation without hyperbole, of pride without ego? Do you ever wonder?Because I do.The rest of the time, I'm too busy doing things that matter. But for those stints of lonliness, I wonder what people do when they settle down and realize that the most interesting thing about the person they're with is how well they're able to advertise themselves. During those times when I wish I had someone in my life, I wonder what it would be like to just drift happily along, the way everyone else seems to, in realtionships that don't matter with people they don't really care about. Sometimes I wish I wasn't special or remarkable or unusual, that, like for a lot of people, any port in a storm would do.I think I'm romantically compatible with less than 1 out of every 100 girls I meet. There aren't a lot of really special, amazing people in the world, but I won't settle for less.Am I better off or worse off?Do you ever think about this stuff?
bjork, the white stripes, bikini kill, a tribe called quest, ted leo & the rx, blur, frank black, bob dylan, the pixies, buddy holly, cat power, denali, pretty girls make graves, the gossip, morphine, elliott smith, the flaming lips, gorillaz, etc. etc.
haven't seen any lately that thrill me. I love labyrinth, repo man, high fidelity, say anything, roger & me, one crazy summer, better off dead, the dark crystal... I'm sure I'm missing a bunch.
douglas coupland, dave eggers, david foster wallace, hubert selby jr., barry hannah, henry miller, flannery o'connor, f. scott fitzgerald, etc. etc.