"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a race car. Is any of this getting through to you?" - Futurama (vis a vis Carl)
Non-stalkers. Yeah. No more stalkers.
. . . and Hugh Grant.
Also, people who can bother themselves to learn rudimentary HTML and make their OWN Myspace pages, rather than using some unoriginal, pre-made layout. If you're going to be a cyber geek, at least make it real.
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The list is long, but among my favorite are: BLUR (circa the Parklife album), CROWDED HOUSE, THE CURE, DAVID GRAY, ERIKA, GIRL TALK, IMOGEN HEAP, JAMES, MADDER ROSE, MODEST MOUSE, MORRISSEY, OZOMATLI, POSTAL SERVICE, RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, SAVE FERRIS, SEU JORGE, SIGUR ROS, THE SMITHS, THE SPECIALS, SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS, THE SUNDAYS, THIEVERY CORPORATION, TRAVIS. . .
Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore (basically, anything produced by Wes Anderson except The Darjeeling Limited, which pretty much sucked), Garden State, Amelie, Juno, Dogma, I Heart Huckabees, Drive Me Crazy, Punch Drunk Love, Idiocracy, Lost In Translation, Keep Mum, Ghost World, Love Actually (or anything with Hugh Grant in it, really; I think he's the sexiest man alive), Dirty Pretty Things, etc etc etc.
Greatest movie quote ever:
"I went to law school here."
"You went to law school at Costco?"
"Yeah, I couldn't believe it either... luckily my dad was an alumnus and able to pull a couple of strings."
and
"So, for their insolence, God decreed that neither Lochi nor Bartleby would ever be allowed back into paradise."
"Were they sent to Hell?"
"Worse. Wisconsin."
On the rare occasions I'm home, and the even rarer occasions that I'm watching television, I like House, Surprise By Design (Robert Verdi is my superhero!), Scrubs, and The Office. I also catch Seinfeld re-runs whenever I can.
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight";"The Most of P.G. Wodehouse" - P.G. Wodehouse;"The Anonymous Lawyer" - Jeremy Blachman;"Night of the Avenging Blowfish", "I'd Like to Buy a Vowel", "Begin to Exit Here" - all by John Welter;"Gargantua and Pantagruel" - Francois Rabelais; "Fairytales" - Perault;FOUND magazine;DIRTY FOUND magazine.
Jesus Christ.
My parents, especially my mom, for loving and supporting me unconditionally in all of my endeavors; on Postsecret, I viewed this one elaborately decorated postcard that read, "I love my mom, but she'd never know it because I'm always so mean to her on the telephone."
Liviu Librescu.