Writing, Drama, Music, Community, Waking myself up from stupor
People with passion of some sort.
The Arcade Fire. Halloween Alaska. The Black Keys. Death Cab for Cutie. Tom Waits. Mewithoutyou. The Blood Brothers. John Coltrane. Johnny Cash. Miles Davis. The Album Leaf, Tristeza, and anything else Jimmy Lavalle has ever touched. GSYBE!. Bloc Party. Pink Floyd. BT. Coldplay. Sigur Ros. Since By Man. Refused. The Clash. Ed Harcourt. Explosions in the Sky. Mogwai. Spoon. The Dirty Three. Dredg. Weaver at the Loom. Ryan Adams. Unearth. Devendra Banhart. Sufjan Stevens. Robert Johnson. Darkest Hour. Bright Eyes. Tortoise. Peter Gabriel.
About Schmidt. The Believer. Spirited Away. All the Real Girls. Undertow. Ravenous. The Beauty and the Beast (1940s). Halloween. Suspiria. Black Christmas. Audition. Old Boy. Lord of the Rings. Conan the Barbarian. Sin City. On the Waterfront. The Maltese Falcon. Chinatown. Taxi Driver. The Big Sleep. Mulholland Drive. Haute Tension. 8 1/2. 400 Blows. Seven Samurai. Yojimbo. Hero. My Neighbor Totoro. Aguirre: The Wrath of God.
TV is for Fools, Cratchit
Bible. American Gods. Mere Christianity. Lord of the Rings. Anything by Philip K Dick or Ray Bradbury. A Christmas Carol. The Great Gatsby. Anything by Peter Straub.. Outer Dark and anything else by Cormac Macarthy. Sanctuary and all Faulkner. Anything by China Mieville, Matthew Stover, or the other Next Wave Fantasists. Let's not forget more Dickens, and more CS Lewis, and more Henry James, and more books in general.
C.S. Lewis.