What do you call a tall, neurotic, pompous, opinionated, arrogant, intelligent, maladjusted, funny, egotistical, honest, self-loathing, confusing, stubborn, socially-awkward, multi-talented, creative, goofy, disturbed, versatile, hard drinking, complicated, immature, flaneur with a gigantic chip on his shoulder? He's been called a lot of things actually, but most people call him "ET."
Performing all sorts of incredible physical and mental super human feats, some incomprehensible to mere mortals' minds.
For every decent band or artist out there who continually produce good music, there are millions more out there, spewing out tons of crap for every one good song they manage to blindly create. And sadly, there are millions of you all who go out and buy that crap anyway. That's why cancers such as American Idol thrive so well.
There are probably 50 movies I could list as ones I love, but these stand out.
1.American History X
2. American Beauty
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. The Prestige
5. the Boondock Saints
Anyone who chooses not to watch and support ANY show the parents TV council doesn't like is pure evil. Those facists radicals and their rampent censorship symbolize everything that is wrong with this country.
Fiction
1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. Catcher in the Rye
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Non-Fiction
1. The Myth of Male Power
2. A People's History of the United States
3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
4. 12 Years a Slave
5. The Golden Ratio: A Brief History of Phi
Honorary Mention: A Brief History of Time
coming soon: Thomas Jefferson: A Life
It doesn't matter anyway. No one reads as much as they should, which is why most people are so willing to believe anything they're told.
1. Mom and Dad
2. Jackie Robinson
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Leonardo Da Vinci
5. Maura Rainey