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jimhortis

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Music:

Antony and the Jonsons, Pinback, Shellac, Devotchka, Isis, Blood Brothers, Blackeyes, Converge, Black Heart Processsion, Brighteyes, Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Violent Femmes, Zappa, Sebadoh, Lightning Bolt, Engine Down, 3-mile Pilot, Fugazi, Pixies, Nation of Ulysses, Blonde Redhead, Cursive, Karate, Hella, Morphine, Flaming Lips, King Crimson, Built to Spill, Jets to Brazil, Faure, Deerhoof, StereoTotal, Dillinger

Movies:

Hot Fuzz, Breathless, Fast Times, Rosemary's Baby, Quay Brothers, those lightning bolt videos, Caddyshack, Persona, Borat, Jesus Is Magic

Television:

Wire, Rome, House, Comedy Central politics, Sealab, Reno 911, COPS, Battlestar

Books:

Richard Kluger, Huysmans, Oxford Writer's Thesaurus, Politics at Rome from 369-165 (not sure on those years right now) BC, Richard Ford's Independence Day. over about 6 months listened to moby dick, crime and punishment, and ulysses--listen, some of thoses are supposed to have an aural quality to them, so i'm allowed to just listen. and then: DFW, Lewis Lapham - Pretension to Empire, the economist's style guide, deMan, Barzun, Kafka, Nabokov, Xenophon, ET Salmon, John Barth, Miller, Bergson, Gibbon, Musil, Thucydides, Herodotus, Xenophon, Antiphon