achilles heel: beards
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The man that has Scott Speedman's outsides and John Fowles insides. Hot.
Jim Noir, Persephone's Bees, Studio, The Real Tuesday Weld, Matt and Kim, Ghostland Observatory, Blonde Redhead, The Rapture, The Bird and The Bee, Under the Influence of Giants, Cold War Kids, Au Revoir Simone, Radiohead, Boy Kill Boy, Portugal The Man, TV on the Radio, Ratatat, Silversun Pickups, LCD Soundsystem, Chemical Brothers, Peter Bjorn and John, Sohodolls, Uffie, Yo La Tango, A Tribe Called Quest, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Pink Martini, Good the Bad and the Queen, Broken Social Scene, CocoRosie, Stars, Placebo, Decemberists, Let's Go Sailing, Lab Partners, Helen Stellar, Vampire Weekend, Oasis, Ringside, Air, Tilly and the Wall, Caetano Veloso, Subway Sect, Mates of State, Metric, Kasabian, Jeff Buckley, Jurassic 5, Cat Power, My Morning Jacket, Colour, Interpol, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Built to Spill, Spank Rock, Band of Horses, Mirah, Menomena, Belle and Sebastian, Constantines, Caia, The Smiths, Pinback, The Rentals, Animal Collective, Her Space Holiday, Daft Punk, Goldfrapp, The Islands, Wolf Parade, Anthony & the Johnsons, The Books, Mum, David Bowie, Zeppelin, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Nina Simone, The Fiery Furnaces, Hot Chip, The Make-Up, The Parallelograms, Alexi Murdoch, Le Tigre, Flaming Lips, American Analog Set, Juned, Kinnie Star, Pixies, Blondie, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Xiu Xiu, etc...etc...
Rushmore, You Can Count on Me, The Big Lebowski, Adaptation, The Squid and the Whale, The Apartment, Shaun of the Dead, Army of Darkness, Good Bye Lenin!, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Flirting with Disaster, The Royal Tenenbaums, Amores Perros, Out of Sight, Laurel Canyon, Hot Fuzz, Little Children, Parenthood, Ghostbusters, Wait Until Dark, Bottle Rocket, etc...etc...
and anything with a plot that centers around a dance-off; from Girls Just Want To Have Fun to StepUp (cant wait for the sequel). I don’t discriminate.
The Office (BOTH BBC and NBC...oh Jim/Tim...sigh) Six Feet Under, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Arrested Development, Best Week Ever.
Guilty Pleasure: project runway...again
Anything (almost) by the following: Saunders, Salter, Fowles, Fante, Celine, Self (as in Will), Hamson, Lawrence, Ishiguro, Dostoevsky (Bro's Kara. & the Double) Garcia Marquez, Byatt, Borges, DeLillo, Amis, Selby, Rand, Kafka, Tolstoy (short stories), Darbyshire, Greene, Wharton, Nabokov, Gogol, Lipsyte, Thackeray, Easton Ellis, Garland, Didion, Robbins, Nin, Murdoch, Konwicki, Miller (as in Henry and really only T of Cancer), Collier, Joyce, etc. etc...
Top 8: (really eight tied for 1st)
1) Lolita: Nabokov
2) The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoevsky
3) Light Years: Salter
4) Pastoralia: Saunders
5) Minor Apocalypse: Konwicki
6) Ask the Dust: Fante
7) Journey to the End of the Night: Celine
8) The Collector: Fowles
+ Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome and Nin's Delta of Venus and Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea and Hamson's Hunger and Gogol's Dead Souls and Greene's End of the Affair and Amis' Dead Babies and Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn and Rand's Atlas Shrugged and...
Also, my American Heritage Dictionary. Without it I would fall into a puddle of incongruity and malaise. for serious.
My Matt. Turns out he can fly. Who knew? and Didion. Oh Didion