matty, being here now, the ocean, puddle jumping, beat writing, my ipod nano, playing outside, school, photography, hard rain, napkin sketches, mud bay coffee, good beer, red curry, eye contact, text messaging, dive bars in small towns, napping, aerobie, drawing, echoes, pretty eyes, bare feet, holding hands, buddhism, piano music, collages, open mics, driving, snail mail, firsts, crushes, cooking, billiards, sarcasm, used book stores, great shoes, maker's mark, prawns, dirty little secrets...
Buddha. john lennon. george-michael bluth. also people who are alive and non-legendary, with whom a mutually rewarding relationship could potentially flourish.
the bad angles, stereodrive, burnside down, blanket from the moon, the flaming lips, ben folds five, pink martini, death cab for cutie, elliott smith, third eye blind, the get up kids, frank sinatra, ryan adams, wilco, the postal service, coldplay, belle and sebastian, snow patrol, tom petty and the heartbreakers...some jazz, a little soul, almost all classic rock.
lost in translation, rushmore, american beauty, fight club, requiem for a dream, the big lebowski, a beautiful mind, top gun, dirty dancing, the breakfast club, goonies!, blow, cinema paradiso, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, mean girls...
curb your enthusiasm, sex and the city, grey's anatomy, family guy, arrested development (watching at least a disc at a time), and the wonder years.
a little Charles Bukowski, a fair amount of Jack Kerouac, most Kurt Vonnegut jr., 2 books each by Herman Hesse and Robert Pirsig, one Sylvia Plath novel, John Updike's style, 1984, drop city, altered states...and any sappy romance novel with the word "sheathing" somewhere between the covers.
Whoever put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop...