inspiration. the truth. writing. making films. the ultimate day. all-night conversations. instant bonds with perfect strangers. going into buildings i've never been in before. the way libraries smell and sound. the way museums make me feel. wandering around the zoo. guitar hero. prat-falls. organization. a lovely mess. seeing every film i can possibly see. reading every book i can possibly read. uncontrollable laughter. board games. productivity. shenanigans. following through. tie/thai wednesdays. drunken go-karts. confidence. people-watching. a night at the redford theatre. reading outside. ridiculous moments with friends. slow pitch batting cages. family get-togethers. a nice night out. a nice night in. creative energy. years gone by. years to come. mini golf. alphabetical order. thinking back on childhood. junior senior dance parties. days that revolve around the extended preparation of a meal. maintaining a child-like view of things. garage sailing with cutes. a good play session with potato. film junkets. learning how to be an adult. impulse. clarkandmichael.com. laughing at myself. netflix. disneyworld. my ipod on shuffle. movie memorabilia. appreciating something for what it is. silver linings. falling. getting back up.
anyone who tips the scale in the 'good' direction.
Abba, Air, Akron/Family, The Aliens, American Princes, Amy Ray, Andrew Bird, Apes, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Arizona, The A-Sides, As Tall As Lions, A Band of Bees, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Bee Gees, Belle and Sebastian, The Besnard Lakes, The Bird and the Bee, Bjork, The Black Keys, Black Milk, Bloc Party, The Blow, Blur, Bobby McFerrin, The Breeders, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Buff1, Cat Stevens, Chicago, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Chromeo, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, The Commodores, Common, The Concretes, Cornelius, The Coup, Crazy Horse, Crystal Castles, The Cure, Cursive, Damien Rice, Daniel Zott, Danny Elfman, David Bowie, The Dead Bodies, Deastro, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Deerhoof, Deftones, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Depeche Mode, Devotchka, Dizzee Rascal, Dr. Dog, Does It Offend You Yeah?, Dosh, The Dresden Dolls, Eagles of Death Metal, Eels, Eisley, Elbow, Electric Light Orchestra, Elefant, The Envy Corps, Exchange Bureau, The Faint, The Farewell Drive, Feist, The Fiery Furnaces, Fiona Apple, The Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac, Flight of the Conchords, Foals, The Format, The Foxglove Hunt, Franz Ferdinand, Free Blood, Frou Frou, Fugees, G. Love and Special Sauce, Genesis, Glen Hansard, Gnarls Barkley, The Go! Team, Gogol Bordello, Goldfinger, Gorillaz, Grandaddy, The Great Fiction, Guillemots, The Hard Lessons, The Helio Sequence, The High Strung, The Hives, Hot Chip, Hot Hot Heat, Irving, Islands, The Jackson 5, James Brown, Jason Croff, Javelins, Jay-Z, Jimi Hendrix, J.J. Cale, Joanna Newsom, John Lennon, Jon Brion, Joni Mitchell, Junior Senior, Jurassic 5, Justice, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Kent Koller, Kid N' Play, Kings of Convenience, The Kinks, K.M.C. Kru, k-os, Kristeen Young, Ladytron, The Last Shadow Puppets, Lavender Diamond, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, The Lovin' Spoonful, Luke Doucet, Lupe Fiasco, Lyle Workman, Lyrics Born, Magic Bullets, Mancino, Man Man, Manu Chao, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mason Proper, Mates of State, Matmos, Meat Pyramid, MGMT, Michael Gulezian, Michael Jackson, Midfield General, Mike Doughty, Miles Davis, Millions of Brazilians, Modest Mouse, Mstrkrft, Mudhoney, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Neko Case, N*e*r*d, New Grenada, The New Pornographers, Nick Drake, Nickel Creek, Nina Simone, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Nomo, Northpilot, Oasis, Of Montreal, Oh My God, One Day As A Lion, Outkast, The Panda Band, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Peter Bjorn & John, Phil Collins, Phoenix, Pinback, Pink Floyd, Pixies, The Police, Portugal. The Man, The Postal Service, PPT, Pretty & Nice, Prince, Prodigy, Propellerheads, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, The Raconteurs, Radiant Darling, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rai, Randy Newman, The Rapture, Ratatat, The Redwalls, Rescue, Rilo Kiley, Rodriguez, Rogue Wave, The Rolling Stones, The Roots, Russian Circles, Sam Roberts, Sarandon, Sea of Japan, The Section Quartet, Self, The Shins, Sigur Ros, The Silent Years, Simon and Garfunkel, Sleater-Kinney, Smashing Pumpkins, Snot, Sonny J, Soul Coughing, Soundgarden, Sound Team, Spacehog, Spank Rock, Spoon, Spymob, Squeeze, The Stationary Set, The Strokes, Sufjan Stevens, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, Superhawk, Tally Hall, Tenacious D, Terrible Twos, Terry Lynn, Terry Reid, Thom Yorke, Three Dog Night, Tilly & The Wall, TV on the Radio, Two Man Gentleman Band, Ugly Cassanova, Unwed Sailor, Vampire Weekend, Van Morrison, The Vines, The Violent Femmes, We Are Scientists, Weezer, Wesley Willis, West Indian Girl, The Whigs, White and the Writing, The White Stripes, The Who, Who Made Who, Wilco, Wired All Wrong, Wolfmother, Wreckless Eric, Wyclef Jean, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ye Olde Castletons, Zero Hour, The Zombies!
About Schmidt, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Adaptation, After Hours, A.I., Alien Trilogy, All Quiet On the Western Front, Amelie, American Beauty, American Graffiti, American Movie, The Anderson Tapes, Angels With Dirty Faces, Annie, Annie Hall, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Avalon, Awakenings, Babe, Babe:Pig in the City, Back to the Future Trilogy, The Bank Job, Baraka, Batman, Batman Begins, Batman Returns, Be Kind Rewind, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Being John Malkovich, Best in Show, Big, The Big Lebowski, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Billy the Kid, Birth, Blade Runner, The Blue Angel, Bobby, Body of Lies, Boogie Nights, Borat, Bottle Rocket, Brazil, Bringing Up Baby, Brokeback Mountain, Bubble, Bubble Boy, Burn After Reading, Casablanca, Casino, Children of Men, The Chipmunk Adventure, Chocolat, Citizen Ruth, City Lights, City of God, City of Men, Clifford, Closer, The Counterfeiters, Dan in Real Life, Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The Darjeeling Limited, The Dark Knight, Demolition Man, Die Hard, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Donnie Darko, Double Indemnity, E.T., Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Election, Elegy, Elf, Encino Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Exorcist, The Fall, The Family Man, Fantasia, Fargo, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fight Club, Finding Nemo, Footlight Parade, Forrest Gump, Frozen River, Garden State, Ghost World, Ghostbusters 1 & 2, Glengarry Glen Ross, Go, The Good Girl, Good Will Hunting, GoodFellas, The Graduate, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Muppet Caper, Groundhog Day, Halloween, Hannah and Her Sisters, Happiness, A Hard Day's Night, Harold and Maude, Harry Potter 1-5, The Hills Have Eyes, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, House of Sand and Fog, I Am Cuba, The Ice Storm, In America, In the Bedroom, In Bruges, In the Line of Fire, Insomnia, Indiana Jones Quadrilogy, The Invisible Man, Iron Man, It's a Gift, It's a Wonderful Life, Jaws, The Journey of Natty Gan, Juno, Jurassic Park, The Karate Kid 1 & 2, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Knocked Up, Kung Fu Panda, Labyrinth, The Lady Eve, Lars and the Real Girl, Leaving Las Vegas, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Life is Beautiful, The Lion King, Little Children, The Little Mermaid, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Love Liza, Lust Caution, The Machinist, Made, Magnolia, Man on Wire, Manhattan, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Margot at the Wedding, Mary Poppins, Match Point, Matchstick Men, The Matrix, Memento, Metropolis, MicroCosmos, Million Dollar Baby, Minority Report, Miracle on 34th Street, The Mist, The Money Pit, Monsters Inc., Moulin Rouge, The Muppet Movie, Muppets From Space, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Muriel's Wedding, My Flesh and Blood, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Network, The Nightmare Before Christmas, A Nightmare on Elm Street, No Country For Old Men, Notorious, Old School, Oldboy, Oliver!, Once, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Operation Filmmaker, The Orphanage, Paris Texas, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Pennies From Heaven, The Philadelphia Story, The Pianist, Pineapple Express, Planet of the Apes, The Princess Bride, Psycho, The Public Enemy, Pulp Fiction, Punch-Drunk Love, The Pursuit of Happyness, Rachel Getting Married, Raging Bull, Rain Man, Recount, Reign Over Me, Reservoir Dogs, Return to Oz, Roman de Gare, Royal Tenenbaums, The Ruins, The Rules of the Game, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, The Savages, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Seven, Seven Samurai, Sexy Beast, Shaun of the Dead, The Shining, Singin' in the Rain, Sling Blade, Snow Angels, Son of Rambow, Speed, Spellbound, Spirited Away, Splash, The Squid and the Whale, Stand By Me, Star Wars Trilogy, Stranded, Stranger Than Fiction, Strangers on a Train, Superbad, Surfwise, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Taxi to the Dark Side, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny, Terminator 2, There Will Be Blood, The Thing, 30 Days of Night, This Is Spinal Tap, 300, Three Kings, Three Men and a Baby, Throw Momma From the Train, Thumbsucker, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tommy Boy, Toy Story 1 & 2, True Lies, The Truman Show, 12 Monkeys, United 93, The Up Series, Up the Yangtze, V For Vendetta, The Vanishing, The Wackness, Wag the Dog, Waking Ned Devine, Waiting For Guffman, Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wall•E, War of the Worlds, We Are Together, Welcome to the Dollhouse, What About Bob?, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, When Did You Last See Your Father?, When Harry Met Sally, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Winged Migration, The Wizard of Oz, X2, XXY, Zelig.
AFV, American Gladiators, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, Blue Planet, COPS, The Cosby Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Da Ali G Show, Extras, Flight of the Conchords, Freaks and Geeks, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Intervention, The Jeff Corwin Experience, Life of Mammals, THE OFFICE (The British version is the greatest piece of entertainment ever made, but the American version is pretty damn great too), The Muppet Show, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Reno 911, Roseanne, Seinfeld, The Sopranos, Tell Me You Love Me, 30 Rock, Top Chef, The Twilight Zone
AUTHORS: Michael Crichton, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, John Grisham, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, J.K. Rowling, David Sedaris, Shel Silverstein, John Steinbeck, Peter Straub, Chris Ware ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BOOKS BY OTHER PEEPS: An American Tragedy, The Beatles Anthology, The Book Thief, Breaking In: How 20 Film Directors Got Their Start, The Call of the Wild, The Catcher in the Rye, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Death of a Salesman, The Exorcist, Fahrenheit 451, Film Art, The Great Gatsby, House of Sand and Fog, The Indian in the Cupboard, The Jaws Log, Lamb, Lennon, Letters From a Nut, Little Children, Lord of the Flies, The Lovely Bones, Moon, Moviemakers' Master Class, 1984, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the perks of being a wallflower, The Princess Bride, Replay, The Seven Minutes, A Simple Plan, To Kill a Mockingbird, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World, The Virgin Suicides, Watchers, Watership Down, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, White Oleander
anyone who makes an effort to worry more about others than they do themselves.