-Writing (songs, music, poems, stories, etc.) -Playing guitar/piano -Dreaming about writing/directing/starring in my own movie -Doing case studies from a park bench -Going to shows, and standing in the back -Hanging out with my select, few friends -Flicking open my Zippo/rubbing my hands together when i'm bored -Sitting in the corner booth at Waffle House/family owned diner -Drinking tea/hot cocoa on chilly mornings (Rooibos tea is my new favorite...check it out) -Typing on my old typewriter -Drinking coffee with my dearest friends
Bright Eyes, Cursive, Desaparecidos, The Good Life, Pedro The Lion, The Weakerthans, Iron & Wine, DeVotchKa, Get Up Kids, Death Cab For Cutie, Cat Power, Regina Spektor, The Postal Service, Coheed & Cambria, David Dondero, twothirtyeight, The Cranberries, The Cure, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business, The Fiery Furnaces, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Brand New, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeletons, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Murder By Death, Explosions In The Sky, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins, Sigur Ros, LCD Soundsystem, Unwed Sailor, Mates Of State, The Smiths, Morrissey, Modest Mouse, Fiona Apple, My Morning Jacket, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Amsterdams, Nick Drave, The Decemberists, Johnny Cash, The Killers, The Format, Daniel Johnston, The Feeling, Jamie Lidell, The Inheritance, Miles Davis, An Angle, Craig Wedren, Tilly And The Wall, Willy Mason, Commander Venus, The Arcade Fire, Wilco, Lucero, Okkervil River, Apple Juice, Spoon, Bob Dylan, Air, Modest Mouse, The Helio Sequence, Maria Taylor, Gorillaz, Broken Social Scene, Lullaby For The Working Class, Ramona Cordova, Kiss.Kiss, Radiohead, Feist, The Elected, Rilo Kiley, Badly Drawn Boy, Hot Chip, Her Space Holiday, Dntel, Brand New All-Time Quarterback, Now Its Overhead, Orenda Fink, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Margot And The Nuclear So And So's, The Album Leaf, American Analog Set, Broken Social Scene, Neva Dinova, Animal Collective, Stars, Azure Ray, Band Of Horses, The Faint, The Beatles, Ryan Adams, Beck, TV On The Radio, Tapes 'N' Tapes, Belle & Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Calexico, Okkervil Rivers, Randy Newman, Tilly & The Wall, Rod Stewart (and the Faces), The Shins, The Spinto Band, Spoon, Tom Waits, Willy Mason, Wolf Parade, Xiu Xiu, Annuals, Apple In Stereo, Architecture In Helsinki, The Unicorns, Six Parts Seven, xoxo panda
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Buffalo '66, Annie Hall, The Royal Tenenbaums (really, anything Wes Anderson), Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, High Fidelity, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Squid and the Whale, Adaptation etc...
Arrested Development, CNN, Scrubs, Seinfeld, MythBusters, Austin City Limits, Sundance, IFC, The History Channel, Pushing Daisies, Lost and that's about it...though i love all of these shows, i really don't watch much television... i record Lost, Pushing Daisies, Mythbusters and Austin City Limits...i watch those when i have spare time...
oh, dearest Kurt (RIP)... Mr. Thompson will be missed greatly (RIP) Hunter S. Thompson, Chuck Palahniuk, David Sedaris, Nick Hornby, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, e.e. cummings, Pablo Neruda, Aldous Huxley, Ken Kesey, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, Michael Chabon, Knut Hamson etc...
Will Sheff, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, J.D. Salinger, Chuck Palahniuk, Ernest Hemingway, Conor Oberst, Johnny K. Samson... Mandi, Remm, Ryan, Travis, Kate and my mom (she's done way too much for me)