Singing, cooking, eye contact, recording, painting, reading, new peeps, high fives (stage dives), thrift shopping.
and maybe...
20 records that changed my life:
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Mae - Destination:beautiful
Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Chris Thile - Deceiver
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Aloha - Sugar
Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise!
Wesafari - Alaska
dada - Puzzle
Deathcab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Hey Mercedes - Every Night Fireworks
Lovedrug - Pretend You're Alive
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Jonatha Brooke - Plumb
Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Human Radio - s/t
The Decemberists - Her Majesty...
Apollo Sunshine - Katonah
honorable mentions: the postal service - give up, the shins - chutes too narrow, minus the bear - menos el oro, dismemberment plan - emergency & i, martin sexton - black sheep, patti griffin - 1000 kisses, stevie wonder - innervisions, toy matinee - s/t, muse - absolution, crystal skulls - blocked numbers, the fire theft - s/t, pinback - blue screen life.
High Fidelity. Boondock Saints. Adaptation. Brick. Lucky Number Slevin. The Proposition. Amelie (anything by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, for that matter) V for Vendetta. The Big Lebowski. The Godfather. The Jerk. The Evil Dead. Fight Club. Anything Tarantino. Early Scorcese. Spinal Tap. About a Boy. Way too many to name, seriously. I'm a freak.
sportscenter, project runway, top chef, mythbusters, 24, good eats, grey's anatomy, lost, heroes, planet earth, the soup, colbert report/daily show, south park, family guy
Anything by Bill Bryson or Stephen King. Palahniuk. Michael Crichton. Sedaris. Eggers. Bret Easton Ellis.
my grandfather. my brother Cameron, a united states marine. my mom. my dad.