When I think about you, I touch myself.
Emotional cripples, suicidal post-adolescents, drug addicted felons, rich and terminally ill elderly women whom I can marry and steal their money, the Olsen twins, that Taco Bell chihuahua, anyone who worked at Enron, and you...
Grand Archives, Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai, Rilo Kiley, Jarvis Cocker, Bright Eyes, The Clash, Wilco, Radiohead, The National, Mates of State, Band of Horses, Midlake, Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, Hot Chip, The Swell Season, The Shins, Camera Obscura, Danielson, Danielson Famile, Twilight Singers, Mojave 3, The Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Guillemots, The Magic Numbers, Snow Patrol, Death Cab For Cutie, Athlete, Stars, The Go! Team, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Metric, The Dears, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Galaxie 500, Hope Of The States, !!!, Elliott Smith, The Go-Betweens (RIP Grant), Blur, Grandaddy, The Divine Comedy, Teenage Fanclub, The Coral, The Postal Service, Arab Strap, Mull Historical Society, The Delgados, The White Stripes, Neutral Milk Hotel, Slint, South, Sigur Ros, M Ward, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Decemberists, Colin Meloy, Azure Ray, Modest Mouse, Trashcan Sinatras, British Sea Power, The Cooper Temple Clause, Franz Ferdinand, Built To Spill, The Delays, Magnetic Fields, TV On The Radio, Frausdots, Embrace, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, M83, Eisley, Sufjan Stevens, Iron and Wine, Wolf Parade, Explosions in the Sky, The Bird and The Bee, Tokyo Police Club, The Frames, Lily Allen, Laura Veirs, The Clientele, Spoon, Voxtrot, Vampire Weekend, The Whigs, Dengue Fever...and so forth and so on...
The Office (I heart Jenna Fischer), Heroes, Lost, Criminal Minds, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, American Dad, The Unit, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Futurama, ER, Law & Order Criminal Intent, Law & Order SVU, etc.
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Breakfast of Champions, The Great Gatsby, Shot in the Heart, Assassination Vacation (by Sarah Vowell), any book by Douglas Coupland, any James Ellroy book too, and anything by David Sedaris. The two Jonathan Safran Foer books are amazing too. Oh, and Salinger. Vonnegut too. And the Jon Stewart Daily Show book is brilliant. And Al Franken. There's more too. A whole lot more. I'll just add them as sentence fragments until my Favorite Books section becomes totally unreadable.
Kurt Vonnegut