I love Toby Radloff! He's a Genuine Nerd!
Well, I already have a best friend and I hit the Boyfriend Jackpot, so those are ruled out. But I would like to meet Oprah Winfrey, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Cullum, Parker Posey, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, Desmond Dekker, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley. Too bad about those last three.
Oh, and this guy:
YUMMY!
nNeptep, Death Cab for Cutie, Ani DiFranco, The Smiths, The Replacements, The Clash, The Damnwells, Nickel Creek, Sean Watkins (solo), Chris Thile(solo), Sugarland, Ryan Adams, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The New Pornographers, The Decembrists, Coldplay, Josh Rouse, Shawn Colvin, Jose Gonzalez, Tori Amos, Desmond Dekker, Goo Goo Dolls, Tenacious D, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Keith Urban, Sara Evans, Brad Byrd, Jump Little Children, John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Alison Kraus and Union Station, The Fray, The Postal Service, Tori Amos, KT Tunstall, Coheed and Cambria, Yellowcard, Hawthorne Heights, Less Than Jake, Ok Go, Blue Merle, The Low Millions, if you're actually reading this I'm surprised, Rickie Lee Jones (The Duchess of Coolsville), Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Puccini, Verde, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Reggae, Reggae, Reggae, Dancehall Reggae, Reggae, George Clinton and Parliament, Ludacris, Outkast, Marvin, Louie, Billie, Ella, Etta, Curtis, Otis. And, of course,
Arrested Development, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Home Movies, The Simpsons, Spongebob Squarepants, Law and Order, I Love the 80's, Best Week Ever, CSI, Undeclared (so under-rated!), Freaks and Geeks, pretty much anything touched by the hands of Judd Apatow, that show with that guy who does the thing. Although I haven't watched TV since I left Portland....
"There's a Monster at the End of This Book", Grover. "Oh, The Places You'll Go!", Dr. Seuss. "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Zora Neale Hurston. "The Vanity of Duluoz", Jack Keruoac. "Visions of Gerard", Jack Kerouac. "A Prayer for Owen Meany", John Irving. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", Hunter S. Thompson. "A Monk Swimming", Malachy McCourt. "Blue Highways", William Least-Heat-Moon. "She's Come Undone", Wally Lamb. "Holding On", David Isay and Harvey Wang. "The Prophet", Kahlil Gibran. "On the Road", Jack Kerouac. The Collected Works of Alan Ginsberg. "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", Tom Wolfe. "The Grapes of Wrath", John Steinbeck. "God, Religion and the Tools for Life", Sylvia Browne.
My dad. David Isay. Donna Budyka. Julio Del Cid. Rosa Del Cid. Toby Radloff. JJ Shurtleff. Linda Shurtleff. Whoever invented chocolate chip cookies. Karen Tremble. Cricket Medbery. Everyone who donated money for my dog's surgery. Jim Henson. John Belushi. Tammy Faye Messner. Johnny Depp. Peter Ostrum. John Cook. Jerry The Elvis Impersonator. Brandon Viall. Max and Willow. Bob and Dean. My mom. Sky the Hitchhiker. John Muir. Sasha Baron Cohen. Ted Hanibal. Amanda Hempel. Stuart Murdoch. My Earth-Angel Kim. Kent Nerburn. Mike Ferree. William Least-Heat-Moon. Our soldiers. Barack Obama. John Lewis. MLK. Rosa Parks. Dana Gallagher. Kerry Fenster. Me.
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