"And the map lead to an island in a sea of store-bought dreams where soulless singers sang over beats built by machines, and lovely girls were hovering above my head like gulls with their long slender necks and their delicate skulls."
And Margaret Cho. And girls who want to make out with me.
Ani DiFranco, Elliott Smith, Iron and Wine, Joni Mitchell, Madeleine Peyroux, Rufus Wainwright, Antony and the Johnsons, CocoRosie, Me'Shell NdegeOcello, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Nick Drake, Missy Elliott, The Beatles, Eels, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Tracy Chapman, Paul Simon, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tech N9ne, The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Sarah McLachlan, Amos Lee, Lizz Wright, Norah Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Cat Power, Nellie McKay, Joni Mitchell, Modest Mouse, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Erin McKeown, Remy Zero, The Dresden Dolls, Damien Rice, Broken Social Scene, Ian Moore, Bob Marley, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joan Armatrading, Louis Armstrong, Josh Ritter, Cary Brothers, Janis Joplin, Elbow, Spoon, Ray LaMontagne, the one am radio, The Roots, Annie Lennox, Kanye West, Sage Francis, The Mountain Goats, Edie Brickell, Thievery Corporation, U2, Queen, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Sinead O'Connor, Sam Cooke, OutKast, Sublime
Everything is Illuminated, Stranger Than Fiction, Crash, Kissing Jessica Stein, The Sweetest Thing, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Run Lola Run, La Vida Secreta De Las Palabras, Shopgirl, The Life Aquatic, Garden State, Romance and Cigarettes, To Wong Foo, The Birdcage, Friends with Money, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Saved!
Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, Nip/Tuck, Medium, Ghost Whisperer, The L Word, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Weeds, Huff, The Office (US), Chappelle's Show, Reno 911!, Six Feet Under, Project Runway, Mythbusters
The Zombie Survival Guide, Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Alice in Wonderland, A Natural History of the Senses, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Song of Solomon, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, The Plague, everything Augusten Burroughs has ever written, anything with language that is beautiful and stark but rich at the same time, things that are simultaneously funny and heartbreaking, naturalism, hyper-realism, magical realism (especially of the Latin-American variety: Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, etc). Nothing remote like fantasy or Sci-Fi (I do like Hitchhiker's Guide, though). For Poetry I love Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot (guilty pleasure). I absolutely hate James Joyce, Flaubert, too. They can fucking suck it.
Krystal. She is the most beautiful person I have ever met in my entire life.