the art of dali, banksy, escher, and godard. also, life.
dick valentine. im pretty much in love with him right now.
tom waits. if you havent heard rain dogs, youre nuts.
the bands ive seen live are the ones that are underlined. take me to see the ones that arent.
!!!. aerosmith. alice in chains. the apples in stereo. the arcade fire. arctic monkeys. art brut. audioslave. THE BEATLES. BECK. belle and sebastian. brendan benson. bjork. the black crowes. the black keys. black sabbath. bloc party. blue oyster cult. bon jovi. david bowie. bright eyes. built to spill. bush. cajun dance party. cheap trick. eric clapton. the clash. coldplay. counting crows. cream. jamie cullum. dave matthews. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND. death from above 1979. depeche mode. the dirty shame. echo and the bunnymen. editors. ELECTRIC SIX. THE FLAMING LIPS. (danced onstage with them.) franz ferdinand. GOGOL BORDELLO. goo goo dolls. jonny greenwood. green day. ben harper and the innocent criminals. hayden. jimi hendrix. iggy and the stooges. institute. interpol. inxs. jimmy eat world. j.u.f. kaiser chiefs. kasabian. kings of leon. ben kweller. lcd soundsystem. led zeppelin. leningrad. john lennon. julian lennon. SEAN LENNON. paul mccartney. matchbox twenty. maximo park. john mayer. MODEST MOUSE. eliot morris. my morning jacket. NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL. nine black alps. nine inch nails. nirvana. oasis. the olivia tremor control. pearl jam. pink floyd. pj harvey. the police. pulp. queen. r.e.m. the raconteurs. RADIOHEAD! rage against the machine. the ramones. red hot chili peppers. damien rice. ringside. rob thomas. robert cray band. the rolling stones. the roots. santana. ELLIOTT SMITH. sonic youth. soundgarden. stardeath and white dwarfs. the strokes. SUFJAN STEVENS. stephen stills. tapes n tapes. u2. tom vek. the verve. rufus wainwright. TOM WAITS. tv on the radio. scott walker. weezer. willy mason. the who. the white stripes. the wildbunch. wings. wolf parade. wolfmother. the yeah yeah yeahs. yo la tengo. THOM YORKE. pete yorn. neil young.
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED. donnie darko. meeting people is easy. a hard days night. monty python and the holy grail. a clockwork orange. yellow submarine. pan's labyrinth. children of men. forrest gump. fight club. american beauty. edward scissorhands. the usual suspects. the labyrinth. the spiderman movies. dead poets society. the fearless freaks. spinal tap. shakespeare in love. love actually. ferris bueller's day off. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. anchorman. fight club. superbad. american psycho. the darjeeling limited. anything with tom hanks, kevin spacey, or johnny depp in it, basically.
the office. conan o'brien. saturday night live. the simpsons. and, of course, jeopardy (i'll admit it.)
1984. ANYTHING by shakespeare (especially macbeth and romeo and juliet!). A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. everything is illuminated. extremely loud and incredibly close. catcher in the rye. killing bono. dante's inferno. too weird for ziggy. the psycho ex game. midnight in the garden of good and evil. anything by stephen king. spins 20 years of alternative music. anthem. night. anything by edgar allen poe. of mice and men. the crucible. to kill a mockingbird. anything by t.s. eliot (who, ironically enough, died on my birthday) also, the art books of dali and mc escher and banksy...banksy's wall and piece is fantastic. nine stories by salinger. the children of men. dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. the perks of being a wallflower. soldier x. angela's ashes. a modest proposal. 2001: a space odyssey
currently reading: catch-22, bill bryson's shakespeare bio, the life and times of grigorii rasputin, leaves of grass, shakespeare's sonnets
also, eugene hutz, shakespeare, banksy, demetri martin, elliott smith, wayne coyne, and dick valentine.