trying to find if i have any sense of will power. making music. listening to music. martial arts. making up nicknames for people. travel. telling pointless stories. vitamin water. reading. building stuff for the internets. getting paid to build stuff for the internets. ping pong. sake bombs.
Cursive, Dismemberment Plan, Hum, Mogwai, Massive Attack, Radiohead, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, The Postal Service/DCFC, At the Drive-In/Mars Volta, Bear vs. Shark, These Arms Are Snakes, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Get Up Kids, Fugazi, Pretty Girls Makes Graves, MF Doom, Q-Tip, The Good Life, Isis, Pelican, Forget Cassettes, Bloc Party, Built to Spill, Interpol, The Notwist, The Valley Arena, Kool Keith/Dr. Dooom, Eastern Youth, Pumpkins, Juno, Borris, Explosions in the Sky, TV on the Radio, of Montreal and a bunch more.
High Fidelity, Eternal Sunshine, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, pretty much anything by Kurosawa, City of God, Airplane, Holy Grail, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Ghost in the Shell, Half Baked, Blade Runner, Magnolia, Lock Stock and so on.
TV rots your brain, but Family Guy, Mr Show, Chappelle Show & Robot Chicken are hilarious. The history channel ain't bad either.
some books/authors i enjoy: murakami (norwegian wood maybe my new favorite), vonnegut, bukowski, martin, rape of nanking, brave new world, 1984, hyperion, war and peace, our america, foundation, neuromancer, a long way down, on the road, metamorphisis. in the queue is tropic of cancer, naked lunch, never let me go, and gravity's rainbow.
Ian MacKaye