going to sleazy bars with rockin jukeboxes and unlevel pool tables, taking long road trips and creating memories at random places along the way, playing my life on fast forward and rewind in my head
When I was 12 or 13 I had two good .. "friends", named Donny and Josh. After having chatted with them for about a year over ICQ (does anybody still use ICQ, by the way?) we agreed to meet up at the Olympia mall. I can still remember what I wore, ooooh, so hideous, blue sarong with black flower print, tennis shoes, and a burgandy zip up sweater, with blue and white racing stripes down the arms. And I'd just gotten my braces put on that day. Despite the fact that they liked Rancid and NOFX, which made them "cool", they were pretty lame overall. I think the experience made me never want to meet people from the internet in person again. Unless of course you're in the music industry, and then I want to meet you so I can use you for your connections, free concert tickets, and CDs.
Lately: Fleet Foxes, The Kills, and Lykke Li. Always: Radiohead, The Smiths, Nirvana, The White Stripes, The Hold Steady, Spoon, The Beatles, Elliott Smith, Ladytron, Pixies, Kissing Tigers, Patrick Wolfe, Built to Spill, Bright Eyes, Metric, Patti Smith, Magnetic Fields, Janis Joplin, Frank Sinatra / Notorious BIG mash up album, Joanna Newsom, The Velvet Underground & Nico, X, Love, The Strokes, Vaselines, Wolf Parade, Cat Power The Rolling Stones, and Fiona Apple. I could go on forever, but I'll stop there.
Holy Moses!, Fight Club, The Royal Tannenbaums, Requiem for a Dream, Amelie, Ghost World, Resevior Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Clockwork Orange, Casino, The Chung King Express, The Dreamers, and the requisite UCSB alum favorite Rejected.
I would sell my soul to be a character on The Simpsons.
All that is post-modern, especially Vonnegut, Pynchon, and DeLillo.
Anti-Terrorist Man!