playing "is it a boil or a swollen lymph node" with megan, flowers, searching for pictures of disturbing illnesses and deformities on the web and then trying to eat while looking at them. Entomology, Etymology, Sociology, Psychology, Self Awareness. Giving/Getting Earnest Compliments. Appreciating subtleties and the obvious. Staying Gold. Watching people make fools of themselves through the spaces between my fingers. Laughing heartily and with gusto.
A baby walrus and a wizard in training.
Yes, I like music. I like things that sound good. My would-be favorite bands: The Anorexic Beaver, Goodtimes and the Goodtime Band, I Ate a Walrus, the Gay Mayors, Mole Trolls, and Mule Bacon. (Note: These bands should exist. Unfortunately, they were aborted even before the sperm arrived.)
office space, reality bites, dirty work, everything is illuminated, virgin suicides, Arthur, wet hot american summer, Amelie, stranger than fiction, kill the man, anchorman, UHF, the jerk, pretty in pink, 80's John Cusack,..other things...and when I'm feeling masochistic I make myself watch Rent.
discovery health channel, most things animated, the colbert report, curb your enthusiasm, weeds, it's always sunny in Philadelphia, minor accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, the office, 30rock. Pete and Pete was good. Strangers with Candy was HI-larious.
Joyce Carol Oates, Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, Douglas Adams, Nick Hornby, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike or Tom Robbins. certain books i like: the virgin suicides. girl, interrupted. the adventures of Augie march. jennie and the jaws of life. fraud. the feast of love. saul and patsy. the pleasure of my company. lolita. middlesex. comedy by numbers. the awakening. vanity fair. venus in furs. 30 days of sodom. dubliners. blonde. faithless. the happiness hypothesis. high fidelity. pride and prejudice. waiting for elvis. metamorphosis. for love. i am america and so can you!. wigfield. the awakening. the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay.the believers. all sorts of short stories...In a thousand life times I still won't have read enough.
the talent family, brendan small, matt "fourthmeal" leach anyone who is like a queef: a little bit sexy, a little bit funny.