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"There are certain people who seem to know me better than I know myself. To some, I realize, this would be an uncomfortable intrusion on their privacy and their sense of themseleves; mostly, though, I felt, well, lightened, somehow, as if I had been given permission to set down for a moment my burden - the burden of my self, that is - and stand breathing, unrequired briefly, in some calm, wide place."
Green Day, Ryan Adams, Johnny Cash, Saves the Day, Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker (thanks Rueben), The White Stripes, Descendents, The Shins, My Chemical Romance, The Pixies, The Smiths, Fall Out Boy, Social Distortion, The Format, The Killers, Death Cab 4 Cutie, The Postal Service, Blink 182, Sex Pistols, Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond, Frank Sinatra, I was just recently reminded of Dr. Hook the other day and it made me happy, my new favorite local band The Heartless, and on, and on and on... I'll just say, music: yes please.
Spirited Away, Fight Club, Princess Mononoke, Field of Dreams, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Inuyasha movies, The Spongebob Squarepants movie, The Usual Suspects, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic..., The Royal Tenenbaums...
Lost (best show since Buffy), Scrubs, Family Guy, Inuyasha, Frontline, Nova, PBS in general (I'm a nerd like that).
The Sun Also Rises, anything by Hemingway, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious, They Shall Know Our Velocity, The Great Gatsby, I am partial to that Harry Potter kid, Watership Down, Lolita. So much easier to list authors: John Banville, Charles Bukowski, Oscar Wilde, Salinger, Tolkien, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Kafka, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mailer, Ken Kesey (postmodernism rocks) and on and on.
Hemingway, Shilo