"Perfection is static, and I am in full progress."
"If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, 'Somewhere, my flower is there..."
The decemberists, the shins, iron & wine, sonic youth, the velvet underground, the raveonettes, the white stripes, belle & sebastian, slowdive, neutral milk hotel, pavement, stars, nick drake, simon & garfunkel, madonna,paul simon, sunset rubdown, DeVotchKa, nico, elliot smith, joni mitchell,rilo kiley, the cranberries, ramona cordova, be your own pet, carly simon, meatloaf, my bloody valentine, modest mouse, jack johnson, queen, styx, coldplay, t.v. on the radio,wilco, jim croce, cat stevens,jewel, pedro the lion, the smiths, riverboat gamblers, the jesus & mary chain, david bowie, prince etc.etc.etc.
The Royal Tenenbaums, The Princess Bride, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rififi, Closer, Garden State, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Gangs of New York, Blue Velvet, The Sting, Meet Joe Black, La Atlante, The Pirate, 8 1/2, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Quiet Man, Cigarettes and Coffee, On the Waterfront, Indianna Jones, North by Northwest, Boondock Saints, Little Miss Sunshine, Requiem for a Dream, Cabaret, Hook, Donnie Darko, Vertigo, The Blues Brothers, Moulin Rouge, Big Fish, The Big Chill, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Science of Sleep, High Noon, McClintock, The Philidelphia Story, The Big Lebowski, SLC Punk, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Circus, Without Limits, Everything is Illuminated, Almost Famous, Forret Gump, The Searchers, Benny & Joon, Divorce Italian Style, Edward Scissorhands, Chocolat, Finding Neverland,The Shining, Hair...oh so many movies
jive turkey eats television for breakfast
Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides, The Great Gatsby, Lullaby, Fight Club, Vurt, The Blind Assassin, Wuthering Heights, Invisible Monsters, Like Water for Chocolate, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Giving Tree, The Little Prince, Life After God, The Bell Jar, Battle Royale, Henry and June, On the Road
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'" Jack Kerouac