Changing the world, killing insects, absolving myself of the responsibilities of popularity, pinching babies cheeks, working out, banging, reading, listening to Conservative Talk Radio
Quiet, collected people who would like to meet me at the local SeaFood house for some fresh penguin. Afterwords we will drink coffee and laugh and laugh and laugh. But then it will go too far, and someone will get offended, and what was otherwise a wonderful experience will be forever tainted. So we'll leave a crappy tip and trudge back to our stupid, miserable, penguin-less lives and wonder where it all went wrong. This will, of course, lead to the production of bad poetry. The world needs all the bad poetry it can get in these crazy, mixed-up times.
Motley Crue, GNR, Electric Six, Johnny Cash, Depeche Mode, AC/DC, White Stripes, Scissor Sisters, Duke Ellington, Dr. Dre, Lords of Acid, Goldfrapp, STP, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Journey, The Roots, Tom Jones,
Everything is Illuminated, Transformers, X-Men I & II, Batman Begins, Office Space, Lebowski, Star Wars II, III, IV, V, Trainspotting, Dr. Strangelove, LOTR, The original Manchurian Candidate, Half-Baked, John Malkovich's Head, Matlock Begins, Matlock vs. Predator, Narnia, American Psycho, Ron Burgandy, that sports movie where the underdog prevails at the end, Transformers 2007, Waiting, The Last King of Scotland, My Big Fat Matlock Wedding, Anything with that Will Smith
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, Star Trek: Voyager, King of the Hill, Married With Children, HOUSE, Grey's Anatomy, The Tudors, Attack of the Show!, Samantha Who?, Californication, Cheers, Frasier, NipTuck, The Spurs, Cities of the Underworld
In no particular order:
--Wicked, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West-- by Gregory Maguire. Maguire re-creates Oz and weaves an engrossing tale.
--The Feast of All Saints-- by Anne Rice. Nice historical fiction that explores the question we all ask ourselves, namely: "What the hell am I going to do with my life?"
--Me Talk Pretty One Day-- by David Sedaris. Psuedo-non-fiction, Sedaris is hilarious and takes stories about jobs, his family, and moving to France and makes them laugh out loud funny, which is hard for books to do. His other books are good too, but this is my favorite.
--A Confederacy of Dunces-- by John Kennedy Toole. Outrageously funny. Buy it, own it, buy it for your friends.
--The Federalist Papers--I'm a politics stud, what can I say?
In no particular order:
My mom. She's hard-working, funny, and extremely generous. I love her dearly.
My mom's parents. They have always gone above and beyond what you expect grandparents to do, and treat their grandchildren with love and respect. Like my mother, they are great role models
Sam Waterston: That guy is just an out and out asskicker, if you ask me
Sean Hannity: This guy can produce propaganda that would make Hitler proud.
Matlock: Check out my blog on him
Myself: I am truly a source of inspiration.