I find that life isn't all that interesting. Why else would I be here, or would you be reading this?
Julia Nunes, and you, simultaneously.
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12 Rods
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Air
The American Analog Set
Andrew Bird
Animal Collective
Annie
Annuals
Antony and the Johnsons
Aphex Twin
Arcade Fire
Art Brut
The Avalanches
Battles
be your own PET
The Beach Boys
Beach House
The Beatles
Beck
Beirut
Belle & Sebastian
Ben Folds Five
The Beta Band
Beulah
Björk
The Black Keys
Black Lips
Black Mountain
Blitzen Trapper
Blood on the Wall
The Blow
Blur
Boards of Canada
Bob Dylan
Bon Iver
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The Books
Born Ruffians
The Boy Least Likely To
Brian Eno
Broken Social Scene
Bruce Springsteen
Built to Spill
Burial
Cadence Weapon
Can
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Caribou
Cat Power
Chad VanGaalen
Chromatics
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Clash
The Clientele
Clinic
Clipse
Cut Copy
David Bowie
De La Soul
Death from Above 1979
The Decemberists
Deerhoof
Deerhunter
Deframe
Destroyer
Devendra Banhart
Dirty Projectors
The Dismemberment Plan
The Dodos
El Guincho
El Perro Del Mar
Elliott Smith
Elvis Costello
Evangelicals
Faust
Feist
Fennesz
The Field
Field Music
The Fiery Furnaces
Figurines
Fiona Apple
The Flaming Lips
Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand
Frédéric Chopin
Fujiya & Miyagi
Future of the Left
The Futureheads
Gastr Del Sol
Genesis
Girl Talk
Glass Candy
The Go! Team
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Grandaddy
Grizzly Bear
Guided by Voices
Guillemots
Handsome Furs
Herbert
Hercules & Love Affair
High Places
The Hold Steady
Hot Chip
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Interpol
Iron & Wine
Islands
James Blackshaw
Jamie Lidell
Jay-Z
Jeff Buckley
Jens Lekman
Jim O'Rourke
Joanna Newsom
The Joggers
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
Jonny Greenwood
Joy Division
Junior Boys
Justice
Keith Fullerton Whitman
The Kinks
The Knife
Kraftwerk
LCD Soundsystem
Led Zeppelin
Leonard Cohen
Les Savy Fav
Liars
Lily Allen
Lou Barlow
Lou Reed
Love Is All
M. Ward
M.I.A.
M83
The Magnetic Fields
Man Man
Massive Attack
Maurice Ravel
Max Tundra
Mclusky
Menomena
The Microphones
Modern Life
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
The Mountain Goats
My Bloody Valentine
My Morning Jacket
The National
Neil Young
Neutral Milk Hotel
The New Pornographers
Nick Drake
Nina Nastasia (& Jim White)
of Montreal
Okkervil River
The Olivia Tremor Control
Panda Bear
Paul Simon
Pavement
Peter Bjorn and John
Phantom Planet
Phoenix
Pink Floyd
Pixies
Portishead
The Postal Service
Pulp
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Regina Spektor
Roxy Music
The Ruby Suns
Rufus Wainwright
Sally Shapiro
Scott Walker
The Shins
Shugo Tokumaru
Shuta Hasunuma
Silver Jews
Sleater-Kinney
Slint
The Smiths
Sonic Youth
Spoon
St. Vincent
Starflyer 59
Stars of the Lid
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Steve Reich
The Strokes
Studio
Subtle
Sufjan Stevens
Sunny Day Real Estate
Sunset Rubdown
Super Furry Animals
T. Rex
Talking Heads
Tapes 'n Tapes
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Television
Thao Nyugen
Third Class
Third Eye Blind
Thom Yorke
Tim Hecker
Tokyo Police Club
Tom Waits
Tortoise
TV on the Radio
The Twilight Sad
The Unicorns
Vampire Weekend
The Velvet Underground
The Verve
Weezer
White Denim
White Rabbits
The White Stripes
The Who
Why?
Wilco
Wolf Parade
The Wrens
Xiu Xiu
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeasayer
Yo La Tengo
The Zombies
The Zou
(whew, not everything, but good enough)
Comedians:
Mitch Hedberg
Steven Wright
Patton Oswalt
Jerry Seinfeld
Norm MacDonald
Stephen Lynch
Liam Lynch
Robin Williams
Demetri Martin
Zach Galifianakis
etc.
The Science of Sleep
Blazing Saddles
Space Balls
Star Wars
The Lion King
Toy Story
Finding Nemo
Horton Hears a Who!
Lost in Translation
Caddyshack
Jurassic Park
Fight Club
Shaun of the Dead
The Princess Bride
High Fidelity
Thank You for Smoking
Rounders
James Bond movies
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Pulp Fiction
No Country for Old Men
many more...
The Office
Extras
Seinfeld
South Park
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Flight of the Conchords
Two and a Half Men
How I Met Your Mother
Authors:
Jack Kerouac
Chuck Palahniuk
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Allen Ginsberg
Charles Bukowski
Jean-Paul Sartre
Tolkien
etc.
or, superheroes:
Batman