Honesty. Not letting it go. Missing things and people. These are things I am interested in because these are things I am good at.
Don't you know?
WINTER: Neutral Milk Hotel, The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie (go ahead and judge me, it's cool man.) The Counting Crows (Recovering the Satellites), Cat Power. My Morning Jacket. The Black Keys.SPRING: Regina Spektor, The Counting Crows (This Desert Life), Spoon, Ryan Adams, Tom Petty, The Dead 60's, Superdrag.SUMMER: Kings of Leon, Ween, Counting Crows (Hard Candy), The Figgs, Gordon Lightfoot, The Who, The Obsoletes.FALL: Beck (especially Sea Change), The Replacements, Led Zeppelin, Paul Simon, Blake Thomas, Radiohead (Kid A.)ANYTIME: Queen, The Beatles, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Fiona Apple, They Might Be Giants, Tenacious D.
Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars, Stand by Me, The Sandlot, Stranger than Fiction, Beautiful Mind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Big Lebowski, The Aviator, Where the Buffalo Roam, The Royal Tennenbaums, Life Aquatic, Rushmore, Newsies.
The great ruiner of the art of conversation.
Chinua Achebe "Things Fall Apart," Douglas Adams "The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy," Russel Banks "Rule of the Bone," Amy Bloom "Love Invents Us," Richard Brautigan "A Confederate General From Big Sur," "The Abortion, A Historical Romance," Johnny Cash "Cash," Michael Chabon "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," Don Delillo "White Noise," Charles Dickens "Great Expectations," Dave Eggers "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," "How we are Hungry," "You Shall Know our Velocity," F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Beautiful and the Damned," "The Great Gatsby," Alex Haley "Roots," Aldous Huxley "Brave New World," John Irving "Until I Find You," Nikos Kazantzakis "The Last Temptation of Christ," Ken Kesey "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude," David Mitchell "Cloud Atlas," "Number9dream," Audrey Niffenegger "The Time Traveler's Wife," George Orwell "1984," Tom Robbins "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," "Skinny Legs and All," J.D. Salinger "Catcher in the Rye," "Franny and Zooey," Randy Shilts "And the Band Played On," John Steinbeck "Cannery Row," "Sweet Thursday," " Tortilla Flat," Hunter S. Thompson " Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Hells Angels," "Kingdom of Fear," "The Rum Diary," JRR Tolkein "Fellowship of the Ring," "The Two Towers," "Return of the King," Kurt Vonnegut "Breakfast of Champions," "Cat's Cradle," "Slaughterhouse Five," Tom Wolfe "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."
Hunter S. Thompson.